Historias de Untranslatable

It happens so quickly: one minute I think I'm having a moment with this blue-eyed stranger who offered me an empanada, the next, a girl crashes in on our conversation as she whines her way into the seat between us and right into the stranger's arms. What's more, she looks like those travelling hotties you see on Instagram who make sleeping in a tent in the middle of the forest in their underwear look glamorous. I guess life just isn't fair like that. Meraki Mori loves words, and has a fascination with words from around the world that the English language doesn't have a direct translation for. She sets out on a backpacking trip after graduation in search of these untranslatable words. But it seems she'll find more than what she was looking for after a chance encounter at an airport and the series of serendipitous events that follow. And maybe, just maybe, for the very first time in her life, Meraki Mori will find herself at a loss for words.

A poem addressing the globalisation of the English language through the voice of someone in another country forced to learn English as a second language in school.

This is a one-shot based on a work of art off of pinterest named Untranslatable Words. And this one-shot is a way to show you some different words but very odd and cool words from other cultures.

how a bunch of phrases that cannot be translated into english could describe one's relationship. ☁︎completed copyrighted ©︎ by @SADDENIM [started; 170306] {ended; 170306}

un·trans·lat·a·ble - not able to have its sense satisfactorily expressed in another language. Using untranslatable words that convey feelings that don't have their own words in english to describe them as prompts for the poems, I will (in a way) translate them in verse hopefully bringing their meaning to life. (When finished, I'll update a glossary at the end with all the meanings of the words used)