Hiraeth. Saudade. Mamihlapinatapai. Every language has words that resist any clean translation, not because the target language lacks the concept, but because it never bothered to name it in one word. This course treats untranslatable vocabulary as real linguistic evidence: a map of what a culture found worth compressing into a single term, and what it left for a sentence to explain.
IACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies