Mr Milosz, who participates in his poetry's translation, had long thought it untranslatable.

ECONOMIST: Translating poetry is impossible but worthwhile

Manuel Martinez, as he then was (Manolo Chopera is an untranslatable slang name everyone called him), had little enthusiasm for engineering and preferred to work with horses.

ECONOMIST: Manolo Chopera

Much of French humour is jeux des mots, untranslatable wordplays.

ECONOMIST: The French have jokes, but do they have a sense of humour?