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Editore: Chambers Harrap, 2009
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- Titolo
- The Untranslatables: The Most Intriguing Words from Around the World
- Autore
- Christopher Moore
- Editore
- Chambers Harrap
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2009
- Condizione
- Very good
- Rilegatura
- Rilegato
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 0550105999
- ISBN 13
- 9780550105998
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?
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L'autore
C. J. Moore is an author, translator and editor of both children's and adult books. He was born in England but has spent most of his adult life abroad as a professional foreigner, working in journalism, teaching and publishing. He is the author of the award-winning Ishtar and Tammuz. Christopher has degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh in Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics. He currently lives in Swirtzerland.
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