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a word that packed its bags and refused to move to another language.
means a term or feeling so tangled in its native culture that no single foreign word captures it without losing something.
from linguists have flagged 'untranslatable' words for centuries, but the idea exploded with lists like german's schadenfreude and portuguese's saudade, phrases dictionaries footnote instead of translate.
favorite examplejapanese komorebi: sunlight filtering through leaves
irony alertthe word untranslatable translates just fine
real meaningmeans no exact equivalent, not impossible to explain