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user-inactivated  ·  3453 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Whimsical illustrations depict the meaning of untranslatable words

    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.

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.