Maybe it would be easier to see how pedantic this discussion is if the title were just "Words that don't easily translate". By my reading, you just did a pretty

Maybe it would be easier to see how pedantic this discussion is if the title were just "Words that don't easily translate". By my reading, you just did a pretty good job of translating that epithet, though it took you many words. I suspect you could do an even more precise job with even more words.