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Lost in translation : an illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world

Title: Lost in translation : an illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world / Ella Frances Sanders.
Author: Sanders, Ella Frances.
Publication: Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, [2014]

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Description

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 18 x 20 cm

Summary

"An artistic collection of 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 to describe the reflection of the moon across the water? The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and relevant in our highly communicative, globalized modern world. Lost in Translation brings this wonder to life with 50 ink illustrations featuring the foreign word, the language of origin, and a pithy definition. 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 Hawaiian pana po'o, which describes the act of scratching your head to remember something you've forgotten. Each beautiful, simple illustration adds just the right amount of visual intrigue to anchor the words and their meanings"--
"An artistic collection of 52 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English"--

Subjects

Call Number

JFC 16-121

ISBN

LCCN

2014010259

OCLC

866837228

Author

Sanders, Ella Frances.

Title

Lost in translation : an illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world / Ella Frances Sanders.

Publisher

Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, [2014]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediat ed

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFC 16-121