I read about Alain Levine's web tool to randomly generate some words that have no English Equivalent
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| Screen shot of http://lab.cogdogblog.com/nowords |
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| Screen shot of http://lab.cogdogblog.com/nowords |
• 15 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent
• French Words With No English Translation
• 20 awesomely untranslatable words from around the world
• 10 Words That Can't Be Translated into English
What words do you know that don't translate (as a one word) from one of your languages to another?
Alain Levine's post page explains how he wrote the code to create the page, with screen shots and instructions. If you're interested in writing pages "from scratch", you should definitely have a look.

