Lost in translation : an illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world

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Тематические рубрики

• Linguistics - Translation
• Language and languages - Foreign elements
• Translating and interpreting

Аннотация

An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and relevant in our highly communicative, globalized modern world. This book brings this wonder to life with ink illustrations featuring the foreign word, the language of origin, and a pithy definition