I read a book where this difference in expressiveness removed a subtlety of writing from the translated version. The original English version had a passage whe

I read a book where this difference in expressiveness removed a subtlety of writing from the translated version. The original English version had a passage where it was unclear (on purpose) which grandmother was being referred to (it later turned out to be the one you didn't expect). However, with Swedish having no generic word for grandmother (only mormor and farmor), this nuance was lost in the translation.