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Re:The ‘untranslatable’ Japanese phrase that predicts love by Shorel on Sunday January 07, 2018 @07:21PM (#16093692)
Everything is translatable.

It can take a sentence, a paragraph or an essay.

What the term usually means is: it is not translatable as a single word. And in this case, it isn't.

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Re:The ‘untranslatable’ Japanese phrase that predicts love by wccrawford on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:03AM (#16097624)
The original was a phrase, and my translation is a phrase that's the same number of words.
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Re:The ‘untranslatable’ Japanese phrase that predicts love by Shorel on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:23PM (#16136412)
Did not see your reply earlier. Quite informative indeed.
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