Source — Moore, "From 'In Other Words'" (Words Without Borders excerpt)

Title: From "In Other Words"
Author: Christopher J. Moore
Publication: Words Without Borders
Date: 2004-11-05 (dateline "United Kingdom")
URL: https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2004-11/from-in-other-words/
Type: primary — a direct excerpt of the book's own text (not a summary or review)
Accessed: 2026-09-02
Access method note: fetched and read directly (curl with a browser User-Agent, then a tag-strip).

Extract

Independently confirms the book's own 2004 publication in the UK and its explicit "untranslatable words" premise, in the book's own words as excerpted here: entries are introduced as "among the words discussed by Christopher Moore in In Other Words."
The specific words excerpted here are: Arabic taarradhin ("a happy solution for everyone... without anyone losing face"); Turkish denize girse kurutur ("he can't do anything right," literally "he gets dry if he enters the sea"); Japanese yoko meshi ("a meal eaten sideways," the peculiar stress of speaking a foreign language); Thai jai yen (and, per the excerpt's continuation, at least one further Thai term).
This project directly checked the full text of this excerpt for the word meraki and did not find it — this particular published excerpt does not include a Greek entry at all, let alone meraki specifically.

This is one publisher's chosen excerpt from the book, not the book's full text or table of contents; its absence here does not establish that meraki is absent from the book itself, only that this project has not found independent confirmation that the book contains the word (see the parallel caveat in oddfeed-jovanoski-2023-meraki.md's Gaps).