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Re: Show HN: A dictionary of untranslatable words from around the world

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Maybe the option to report a word would be nice ? also for example "Vouloir être seul" in french just means translated literally "wanting to be alone", I wouldn't put it as a cool word

I added the "Make Suggestion" button, for people to suggest new words or suggest corrections to words. Not sure if the button there is very intuitive, maybe I should add a report button per word as you suggested.

Will keep it in mind. Thanks for the feedback

Re: Show HN: A dictionary of untranslatable words from around the world

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I think Arabic has loads of these sorts of words. Need someone who speaks Arabic to explain them though. And of course English does.

Please feel to contribute with any untranslatable Arabic words. I added the "Make Suggestion" button to allow people submit their words.

Thank you for your contribution!

Re: Show HN: A dictionary of untranslatable words from around the world

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I love this. Sometimes Swedish words are hard to translate because they are compound words or because they are some weird metaphor. For example, the Swedish "Smultronställe" is quite literally, "Raspberry place", and refers to a favourite place a person likes to go to. There's also "realisationsvinstbeskattning" which means "capital gains tax" but just squashed together (we do that with words that go together). If we…

Thank you a lot for your valuable feedback!

Your examples of those quirky Swedish words and phrases are very insightful, and they show the fascinating intricacies of the language.

I'll make those updates and corrections you suggested.

Thank you again. And feel free to submit any other word using the "Make Suggestion" button

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