Comments by "Micro moo" (@Micro-Moo) on "Are these words "untranslatable" into English?" video.

  1. Okay, I have my favorite list of Russian words. For simplicity, I will provide Russian-English pairs, where the English member of a pair is not really a “translation” but a word commonly considered as “translation”, if any. Let's start: (Счастье, happiness), (тоска, <almost impossible to explain>), (друг, friend), (начётничество, dogmatism), (добрый, adj. good (kind)), (добро, good), (совесть, conscience), (хлеб, bread). Some pairs may surprise Russian and English-speaking people, but I can explain the difference. As a matter of fact, there is always some difference, but in these pairs, it is especially apparent.
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  2. What are you asking about? Nearly all words of any language are untranslatable into English. And not only into English. It makes it more convenient to not even apply the concept of “translation” to separate words.
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  3. As to my subscription... si!
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