{"id":11789,"date":"2015-10-23T17:17:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2015-10-23T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:17:45","slug":"untranslatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11789","title":{"rendered":"Untranslatable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was sent a link to an infographic containing some apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vashi.com\/more-than-just-a-word\/Home.html\">untranslatable words for love<\/a>, and this got me wondering if there really is such a thing as an &#8216;untranslatable&#8217; word or concept.<\/p>\n<p>The words featured in lists of &#8216;untranslatable&#8217; words are often given poetic-sounding meanings, and other more ordinary and common meanings they have are ignored. <\/p>\n<p>In some languages a single word might represent a meaning that translates as a phrase in other languages, and there are some culture concepts which can be hard to translate &#8211; that is the words themselves can be translated but the meanings they represent might be specific to a particular culture. <\/p>\n<p>The Dutch word <em>gezelligheid<\/em> (&#8220;the warmth of being with loved ones&#8221;), is an example from the infographic, which has an equivalent in German: <em>geborgenheit<\/em>, so it isn&#8217;t completely untranslatable.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any words in languages you know that you believe to be untranslatable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was sent a link to an infographic containing some apparently untranslatable words for love, and this got me wondering if there really is such a thing as an &#8216;untranslatable&#8217; word or concept. The words featured in lists of &#8216;untranslatable&#8217; words are often given poetic-sounding meanings, and other more ordinary and common meanings they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,116,10,72,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-german","category-language","category-translation","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}