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073012222 Monica 073012223 Vera 073012224 Bblythe 073012225 Sibel Warm up Definition Untranslatability?is a property of a text, or of any utterance, in one?language, for which no equivalent text or utterance can be found in another language when translated.Quite often, a text or utterance that is considered to be untranslatable is actually a?lacuna, or?lexical gap. That is, there is no one-to-one equivalence between the word, expression or turn of phrase in the source language and another word, expression or turn of phrase in the target language. Type Linguistic untranslatability