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Untranslatableness
UNTRANSLATABLENESS

Definition: The quality or property of being untranslatable; inability to be translated.
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* All five elements should be in.


1. Word or phrase new or unpopular at the point in time.

2. Verbarian did not 'create' any translated equivalence.

3. Meaning is not easy to comprehend or try translation.

4. Substantial loss suffered from having no equivalence.

5. Usability or word usage would, therefore, be restricted.
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See perfect GLOSSOLALIA.




Quote: "A beautiful thing is never perfect". - Egyptian proverb.

Quote: Words travel worlds. Translators do the driving". - Anna Rusconi.

Quote: "Translation from one language to another is the most delicate of intellectual exercises". - Cyril Connolly.

Quote: "Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit". - Jonathan Lethem.

Quote: "Every language is a world. Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence". - George Steiner.

Quote: "Translating literary works...requires much more than exchanging one word for another, more than trading sentences between languages. It requires an understanding of the author's message to capture the vision, the essence, of the writing". - Susanna McLeod.

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