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What is untranslatability?

What is untranslatability? Here are some definitions.

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In Laingian terms, particular acts of translation expose the essential untranslatability of experience, especially across different cultural paradigms.
From Cicero and Quintillion down to the present day there has been an unending and acrimonious debate on the dogma of untranslatability.
Much has been written on translating and the untranslatability of poetry.
It is the argument of untranslatability or, if you will, the falsity of all translations.
Historically, such acknowledgment has come in the form of laments over the untranslatability of great literature.
In any case, Whorf leaves us with no clear-cut criterion for untranslatability.

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