> And this before we get to all the diminutives/suffixes that can be added to any word that is part of a swear expression (and not only) in a language like Roma

> And this before we get to all the diminutives/suffixes that can be added to any word that is part of a swear expression (and not only) in a language like Romanian, a feature that is absent from most of the English language English has many diminutives as well, mother is considered rather formal. Mum, mummy, mumsie, mam, all convey different semantic levels of closeness. The point linguists try to make is that 'untranslatable' doesn't exist, based on what they've seen thus far. To use a JS metaphor, some language features may require a semantic polyfill to translate a particular word (and some of these "polyfills" will be larger than others). But literally nothing in any human language is untranslatable, and this has to do with fairly fundamental issues of neuroscience and biology. If we did find untranslatable concepts in Earth-based human languages, it'd have very interesting implications about the nature of human brains.