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- Untranslatability is the property of text or speech for which no equivalent can be found when translated into another (given) language. A text that is...
- refer to a cupboard or cubbyhole. The former usage is often considered untranslatable, the word originated as a colloquialism in South Wales, but is today...
- Stephen; Vanderplank, Robert (7 July 2009). Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable Insults, Put-Downs, and Curses from Around the World. Penguin Publishing...
- Yajna, which also served as a form of salutation. Though it is an "untranslatable phrase", it can be variously translated as "amen", "good", "yes" "thank...
- the original language may be hard coded in the source code, and thus untranslatable. Some messages may be created automatically at run time and the resulting...
- man-made thing or idea. It has been cited as an example of a so-called untranslatable word, because there is no single exact one-word English equivalent....
- cornishdictionary.org.uk. Crossley-Baxter, Lily (15 February 2021). "The untranslatable word that connects Wales". BBC. Retrieved 27 February 2021. University...
- idiosyncratic style, dubbed "almost untranslatable" by Czesław Miłosz and "the ultimate and overwhelming proof for the untranslatability of poetry" by noted Polish...
- equivalence" had been misunderstood. Translation and religion: holy untranslatable? p91 Lynne Long – 2005 "In order to avoid certain misunderstandings...
- people, that are peculiar to a specific timeframe. The term is largely untranslatable, sometimes translated as "intellectual history" or "history of ideas"...