The Untranslatables: The Most Intriguing Words from Around the World
Published on 30. October 2009
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-550-10599-8 (ISBN)
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?
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Illustrations
100
Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
232 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-550-10599-8 (9780550105998)
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C. J. Moore is an author, translator and editor of both children's and adult books. He was born in England but has spent most of his adult life abroad as a professional foreigner, working in journalism, teaching and publishing. He is the author of the award-winning Ishtar and Tammuz. Christopher has degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh in Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics. He currently lives in Swirtzerland.