Sunday 28 February 2016

LOST IN TRANSLATION: WHICH ENGLISH WORDS DO NOT HAVE EQUIVALENTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES?

Sometimes we have problems to translate words when we don't find a suitable equivalent and then we tend to feel a little bit lost, but this is just a natural thing, given the tremendous creative power of this human capacity called language.
Here are some examples from the British newspaper The Guardian , with comments from speakers of different languages.