Editing Untranslatability (section)

====Work and school relations====

Japanese has a concept, ''[[The Anatomy of Dependence|amae]]'', about the closeness of parent-child relationship, that is supposedly unique to that language and culture as it applies to bosses and workers.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Electronic Journal of Sociology |year=2000 |url=http://www.sociology.org/content/vol005.001/smith-nomi.html |title=Is ''Amae'' the Key to Understanding Japanese Culture? |author=Herman W Smith and Takako Nomi |access-date=2022-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220062826/http://www.sociology.org/content/vol005.001/smith-nomi.html |archive-date=2014-02-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Japanese, Chinese, and Korean have words for classmates and colleagues of different seniority and/or gender. The most well-known example to English speakers is probably the Japanese word {{lang|ja|先輩}} ({{transliteration|ja|senpai}}), referring to a senior classmate or colleague.

There are also times when the same concept exists but the practice is different, such as [[homeschooling]] in Spanish and its practice in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Latin American countries. Translators must discern whether the existing terms convey the same concepts.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Pan |first1=Yuling |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429294914/sociolinguistics-survey-translation-yuling-pan-mandy-sha-hyunjoo-park |title=The Sociolinguistics of Survey Translation |last2=Sha |first2=Mandy |date=2019-07-09 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-429-29491-4 |location=London |pages=41–43 |doi=10.4324/9780429294914 |s2cid=198632812}}</ref>