Dictionary of the Untranslatable

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  1. biTsar

    biTsar Active Member VIP member

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    Frenchman:
    "What I miss when I'm speaking English is the final 10% of perversity."

    The current New Yorker OutLoud podcast has an informal discussion on translation, second languages, and
    the Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (recently translated into English from the French).

    New Yorker OutLoud 5/19/2014
    biTsar, May 20, 2014
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  2. Iversen

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    When I listen to Anglophone stand up there is definitely more than 10% of perversity.
    Iversen, May 24, 2014
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