Here’s the Language Log archive of its “There’s no word for X in language Y” posts. Handy ammunition for when someone talks about how some concept in Japanese can’t possibly be translated faithfully into English, or vice versa.
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Here’s the Language Log archive of its “There’s no word for X in language Y” posts. Handy ammunition for when someone talks about how some concept in Japanese can’t possibly be translated faithfully into English, or vice versa.