The Untranslatables: The Most Intriguing Words from Around the World
Winchester, Simon, Moore, C. J.
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?
- EAN
- 9780550105998
- Publisher
- Chambers
- Published
- 30 October 2009
- Pages
- 128
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Very good
£28.99