Enliven your mind and enrich your daily conversation with The Untranslatables, a sublime and witty lexicon of fascinatingly precise phrases, for which there aren't direct English translations. From the German word Drachenfutter that encompasses actions aimed to diffuse a wife's fury at the appearance of her drunken husband to the national Finnish characteristic of sisu, which means something like a dogged and proud refusal to lie down and be beaten. If we don't have a word for it, we have to ask - why?
- ISBN10 0550105999
- ISBN13 9780550105998
- Publish Date 30 October 2009
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 28 May 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Chambers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English