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<p><b>An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English.</b> <br> Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to describe the reflection of the moon across the water? The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and relevant in our highly communicative, globalized modern world. <i>Lost in Translation </i>brings this wonder to life with 50 ink illustrations featuring the foreign word, the language of origin, and a pithy definition. The words and definitions range from the lovely, such as <i>goya,</i> the Urdu word to describe the transporting suspension of belief that can occur in good storytelling, to the funny, like the Hawaiian <i>pana po'o, </i>which describes the act of scratching your head to remember something you've forgotten. Each beautiful, simple illustration adds just the right...
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