“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill” – words by Buddha.
These are the illustrations of 11 untranslatable words from other cultures which have a precise and profound meaning.
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Waldeinsamkeit
Cualacino
Sobremesa
Jayus
Pana Po’o
Mangata
Iktsuarpok
Komorebi
Pochemuchka
Goya
Depaysement
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Wow, thanks for sharing. I'm a German native speaker, and was just about to comment that the word Waldeinsamkeit did not exist, when a little research revealed that the word refers to what medieval munks were seeking when leaving their noisy cities to seek solitude in the woods ("Waldeinsamkeit"). It advanced to a literary subject during Romanticism. I never knew - again, thanks for broadening my horizon!
im a little confused. if they are untranslatable, how come you translated them?
It's shorthand for "not succinctly translatable".
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Wow, thanks for sharing. I'm a German native speaker, and was just about to comment that the word Waldeinsamkeit did not exist, when a little research revealed that the word refers to what medieval munks were seeking when leaving their noisy cities to seek solitude in the woods ("Waldeinsamkeit"). It advanced to a literary subject during Romanticism. I never knew - again, thanks for broadening my horizon!
im a little confused. if they are untranslatable, how come you translated them?
It's shorthand for "not succinctly translatable".
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