yobar Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6813 days ago 52 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: German, Spanish, Irish
| Message 1 of 2 05 December 2010 at 7:02pm | IP Logged |
Here's an excellent thread at Reddit that's right up our alley! Fun reading:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/efee7/what_are_yo ur_favorite_culturally_untranslateable/
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Siberiano Tetraglot Senior Member Russian Federation one-giant-leap.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6274 days ago 465 posts - 696 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, ItalianC1, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Serbian
| Message 2 of 2 06 December 2010 at 11:49am | IP Logged |
I can think of words like скоммуниздить (skommunizdit'), which is коммунизм (communism) + с3,14здить (obscenity, means to steal, but the root of the word means the T word), based on the idea that communizm, as Lenin said in popular speeches, is when everything is free (but everyone works hard), hence things are free and shared. The fact that it's an euphemism for a sexual obscenity adds more spice to the word. Fitting all three, stealing, communism and obscenity in a translation is too hard to my mind.
Edited by Siberiano on 06 December 2010 at 11:54am
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