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Title
The untranslatables - the most intriguing words from around the world
The untranslatables - the most intriguing words from around the world
Author
Cj Moore
Cj Moore
format
Hardback
Hardback
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20091030
20091030
Description
Enliven your mind and enrich your daily conversation with The Untranslatables, a sublime and witty lexicon of fascinatingly precise phrases, for which there aren't direct English translations.
From the German word Drachenfutter that encompasses actions aimed to diffuse a wife's fury at the appearance of her drunken husband to the national Finnish characteristic of sisu , which means something like a dogged and proud refusal to lie down and be beaten. If we don't have a word for it, we have to ask - why?
From the German word Drachenfutter that encompasses actions aimed to diffuse a wife's fury at the appearance of her drunken husband to the national Finnish characteristic of sisu , which means something like a dogged and proud refusal to lie down and be beaten. If we don't have a word for it, we have to ask - why?
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