<story><title>Does Not Translate</title><url>https://doesnottranslate.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awb</author><text>&amp;gt; “Joie de vivre” is indeed translatable into English, and the translation is just “joie de vivre”.&lt;p&gt;I’m a native English speaker and I’ve never heard of the expression “Joie de vivre”, so I don’t understand how “Joie de vivre” is the English translation of “Joie de vivre”.</text></item><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>Also, a lot of the French ones, like “joie de vivre”, have been borrowed into English verbatim. “Joie de vivre” is indeed translatable into English, and the translation is just “joie de vivre”.&lt;p&gt;To claim otherwise would be like saying that the concept of chile pepper can only be expressed in Nahuatl.</text></item><item><author>hk__2</author><text>I’m always wary of these lists, because if you search for the languages you know you always see that most of them are actually translatable and&amp;#x2F;or rare expressions that nobody uses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ithkuil</author><text>Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s such a cliché. Using too many foreign words is such a faux pas, it reveals the bourgeois character of the speaker. No no no, a real connoisseur of the English language won&amp;#x27;t have such a lassaiz-faire attitude and accept just any fancy word du jour. That would be so gauche indeed. Au contraire I&amp;#x27;m blasé at such attempts. The real English entrepreneurial avant-garde clique has so many choices a la carte, so much joi de vivere in this je ne sais qua of a deja vu. Touché</text></comment>
<story><title>Does Not Translate</title><url>https://doesnottranslate.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awb</author><text>&amp;gt; “Joie de vivre” is indeed translatable into English, and the translation is just “joie de vivre”.&lt;p&gt;I’m a native English speaker and I’ve never heard of the expression “Joie de vivre”, so I don’t understand how “Joie de vivre” is the English translation of “Joie de vivre”.</text></item><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>Also, a lot of the French ones, like “joie de vivre”, have been borrowed into English verbatim. “Joie de vivre” is indeed translatable into English, and the translation is just “joie de vivre”.&lt;p&gt;To claim otherwise would be like saying that the concept of chile pepper can only be expressed in Nahuatl.</text></item><item><author>hk__2</author><text>I’m always wary of these lists, because if you search for the languages you know you always see that most of them are actually translatable and&amp;#x2F;or rare expressions that nobody uses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>umanwizard</author><text>Well, that’s unsurprising; nobody can know every expression in any language, even their native one.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&amp;#x2F;dictionary&amp;#x2F;joie%20de%20vivre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&amp;#x2F;dictionary&amp;#x2F;joie%20de%20vivre&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>