Lessons are interrupted
Dear students, Due to Magistère exam corrections, lessons will be interrupted until next week. See you.
Articles
Apologies
Dear students, I apologise for my absence last Thursday due to health issues. I will catch up on the lesson next Thursday from 9:30 to 11:00 am. Thank you for your comprehension.
Rentrée 2014-2015
8h00 - 9h30 9h30 - 11h00 Mercredi Traduction ANG-AR Groupe 2 Salle 17 Traduction ANG-AR Groupe 2 Salle 17 Jeudi Traduction ANG-AR Groupe 2 Salle 10 Approches et Théories de la Traduction Groupe 4 Salle 10
Interesting Words That Don’t Translate
It was Rudyard Kipling who said that words are the most powerful drug of mankind. But unlike more conventional drugs, certain words have no use once they cross the border. Cultures make language in their image, and sometimes there are linguistic “reflections” in one language that simply don’t find their partner in another. Enter these fantastic words, each of which encompasses feelings and emotions that the English language can only use entire phrases to define. Toska , Russian Though the word can roughly be translated as sadness or melancholy, author Vladmir Nabokov had much more distinct description of the endearing term: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be ...
