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The Untranslatables
by C.J. Moore
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The Untranslatables
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?
- ISBN
9780550105998
- Published
- October 23rd 2009 by Hodder Education
- Category
- General
- Number of pages
- 128
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
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