Is That a Fish in Your Ear? and Other Questions About Translation
Channel: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Date: 25/08/2011

How do you give directions if your language has no "left" or "right"? Why would you need a word for the number 1.25? And how do you translate a joke?

David Bellos looks at the peculiarities of language and the art of translation as a part of his book  IS THAT A FISH IN YOUR EAR? TRANSLATION AND THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING. 

http://us.macmillan.com/isthatafishinyourear