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July 9, 2012 07:03 pm GMT

Google Video Captures the Beauty and Difficulty of Translation




To promote Google Input, a virtual keyboard that lets you type using keyboards standard in other languages, Google released a video that underlines the difficulty of translating different words, particularly emotions.

Three speakers -- one of Mandarin, another of Fiji Hindi and a third of Greek -- attempt to describe one word in their respective languages that lacks an obvious English synonym. The words are all positive: one is an approximation of "smells good," the other a cozy feeling produced by intimate conversation with friends; the third a kind of passionate absorption produced by doing what you love. Each word celebrates something wonderful about the cultures that produced…
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