Source — NPR, "Translating the Untranslatable" (Morning Edition, 2005)
- Title: Translating the Untranslatable
- Author/Interviewee: Christopher J. Moore, interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition
- Publication: NPR
- Date: 2005-01-19
- URL: https://www.npr.org/2005/01/19/4457805/translating-the-untranslatable
- Type: primary (a contemporaneous media artifact, directly evidencing the book's early-2005 popular reach) — promotional/curious in stance, not skeptical
- Accessed: 2026-09-02
- Access method note: fetched and read directly (
curlwith a browser User-Agent, then a tag-strip); this is a radio-segment landing page, not a full transcript — the audio itself (7:20) was not transcribed or listened to by this project.
Extract
- Confirms, independent of the OddFeed article's citation, that Christopher J. Moore's book In Other Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World was covered by NPR on 19 January 2005, under the header: "Linguist Christopher J. Moore has made a career of searching out some of the world's most 'untranslatable' expressions — words from around the globe that defy an easy translation into English. Moore shares a few of his linguistic favorites from his new book."
- This independently corroborates the book's early popular reach and approximate date (OddFeed's "soon after excerpted by NPR" following an October 2004 UK publication), but the landing page's own text does not name which specific words were discussed on-air — meraki is not mentioned by name anywhere in this page's readable text.
Gaps
- The actual 7:20 audio segment was not transcribed or reviewed; this project cannot confirm from this source alone whether meraki specifically was one of the words discussed on air.