LostinTranslation

Copyright © 2014 by Ella Frances Sanders All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York. www.crownpublishing.com www.tenspeed.com Ten Speed Press and the Ten Speed Press colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sanders, Ella Frances. Lost in translation : an illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world / Ella Frances Sanders. pages cm Summary: “An artistic collection of 52 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English”— Provided by publisher. 1. Language and languages—Foreign elements. 2. Translating and interpreting 3. Picture- writing. 4. Visual communication. 5. Semiotics. 6. Iconicity (Linguistics) I. Title. P324.S26 2014 410—dc23 2014010259 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60774-710-9 eBook ISBN: 978-1-60774-711-6 Sources: BetterThanEnglish.com, MentalFloss.com, Other-Wordly.tumblr.com, and The Meaning of Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinot. v3.1_r......