Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being untranslatable.
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- noun The property of being
untranslatable ; unable to betranslated .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Professor Linda Dryden andDr Bashabi FraserEdinburgh Napier University• Ian Jack's lively piece on Tagore was spoiled by his view of his poetry – "perhaps the time has come for us to forget that Tagore was ever a poet" – and of its untranslatability from Bengali.
Letters: Bengali poet who will not be lost in translation 2011
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Kuhn (1983) still believed that the sort of untranslatability that concerned him amounts to a break in both reference and meaning, contrary to his respondents,
Scientific Revolutions Nickles, Thomas 2009
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Following Dr Virago and really Stanley Fish in the Times last week, I want to argue for the untranslatability of our endeavors.
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Maybe untranslatability is a function of the English language.
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Poetry that depends on sound elements -- rhyme, rhythm, assonance, &c. -- tends toward untranslatability.
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If I had been, I should not have been so positive about the untranslatability of Rilke.
Correction Annan, Gabriele 1984
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Consequently, any attempt to give rise to new forms of communication must be premised on the only possible common space - that of the singularity, and therefore of the untranslatability, of singular languages.
Eurozine articles Boyan Manchev 2010
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Lee equates the integrity of Twain's text with its untranslatability.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chron kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker 2010
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And then this, the most frustrating and discouraging part: the untranslatability of the experience, the extreme difficulty of talking about it.
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