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James H said:Now I'm reading "the have a word for it" by somebody or other, about "untranslatable" words that we should have in the English language to widen our outlook (I personally don't subscribe to the idea that you can only have concepts if you have words for them). It seems ok.
That sounds really very interesting indeed - can I trouble you for the author's name?
I have a fantastic book called "Your Mother's Tongue" by Stephen Burgen, which discusses how swearing works in different European languages, and is much funnier than socio-linguistics has a right to be.
Has anyone read Stiff by Mary Roach? About all the different things that can happen to the human body after death; from medical research to forensics to plain old decomposition. Much nicer than it sounds.