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Lost in Translation brings to life more than fifty words that don’t have direct English translations with charming illustrations of their tender, poignant, and humorous definitions. Lost in Translation: an Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World written by Ella Frances Sanders, USA Published in 2014. From the author of Eating the Sun, an artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into Englishĭid you know that the Japanese language has a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there’s a Finnish word for the distance a reindeer can travel before needing to rest? ![]() ![]() In 2021 Netflix announced plans to release an animated film of Redwall that will introduce the series to a new generation of fans.īrian died in Liverpool on 5 February 2011. 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