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user-inactivated · 3449 days ago · link · · parent · post: Whimsical illustrations depict the meaning of untranslatable words
There's so many nuances between synonyms in English alone, bringing another language with its own cultural history can really throw things for a loop.Very valid points—especially that a word in one language may have an "identical" translated word but still miss out on a lot of cultural or underlying meaning.