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Yes, he clearly knows that, he gave multiple specific examples of local environment and local practices. I agree, terroir is not an elusive and untranslatable c
by adammarples 2y ago
Yes, he clearly knows that, he gave multiple specific examples of local environment and local practices. I agree, terroir is not an elusive and untranslatable concept, it's a well understood and widely translated concept.
- mytailorisrich 2y agoExcept he provided an inaccurate translation so it seems to me that the concept is not so well understood... IMHO it is indeed untranslatable in the sense that there is no single word in English with the same meaning so that a translation requires a description (illustrated by my quote from Wikipedia that spends a whole paragraph explaining what it means).
- kergonath 2y agoThe concepts are not hard to understand and it is not uniquely French, far from it. That said, I cannot think of a single-word equivalent in English.
- adammarples 2y agoI can't think of a single-word translation for schadenfreude either, but that doesn't mean anything
- thsksbd 2y agoTIL Epicaricacy, from ancient Greek ( it was unlikely that the Ancient Greeks didn't have a word for something such a human flaw.
- selenography 2y ago"epicaricacy" fails the simplest test for word-ness: it's never [0] used with the expectation of being understood without explanation. (Nor ever has been, according to Wiktionary.) It seems to have been one of the earliest Nihilartikels. It could still be adopted as a learnèd (read: pretentious) borrowing from Greek, of course, but in that case it would be spelled epicharicacy. [0] Edit: Well, hardly ever. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:epicaricacy#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:epicaricacy#English
- atkailash 2y ago[dead]