![]() ![]() Kalpa: The passing of time on a grand cosmological scale.This is a collection full of surprises that will make you savour the wonderful, elusive, untranslatable words that make up a language Razliubit: To fall out of love, a bittersweet feeling. ![]() The words and definitions range from the lovely, such as goya, the Urdu word to describe the transporting suspension of belief that can occur in good storytelling, to the funny, like the Malay word pisanzapra, which translates as ‘the time needed to eat a banana’. an artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that there’s a Swedish word that means a traveller’s particular sense of anticipation before a trip?įrom the author of The Illustrated Book of Sayings and Eating the Sun, comes Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World, bringing the nuanced beauty of language to life with over 50 beautiful ink illustrations by Ella Frances Sanders. ![]()
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