/wry/ okay, I'll give you that it's not untranslatable; let's just say 'annoying to translate, with code-switching a more convenient and less intrusive method than translating in roundabout ways'. (I only pulled the Japanese example in the expectation that readers of this journal would generally be familiar with the word; I think the difficulty arises in any language which is linguistically/culturally distant from English.)
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Date: 27 Aug 2010 06:06 am (UTC)