This makes him difficult to translate, says Margaret Jull Costa, his much-praised English translator.
But nobody suggests that it is wrong or impossible to translate, say, the Bhagavad Gita, into English.
"It's New York City and it's the Republicans, so I imagine that will translate," said Jeff MacKinnon, a Republican lobbyist.
'You're talking about places where complicated technologies that we develop here just don't translate,' said Bertozzi, who is also a faculty fellow of Stanford ChEM-H.
Turan Kislakci, a friend of Khashoggi's who went along to translate, said her father had initially been skeptical because of the age gap.
"The two languages don't go well together and without a verb, you cannot translate," says Dorjee.
"The busier the songs were, the less they translated," says Miller, "so it created a cohesion within the album.
'I realised the significance of the contents of the card when I had it translated,' said Sayer.
Ms. Santos, speaking through a family friend who translated, said, "He didn't have a bad reputation, but a bad choice of friends and a bad environment".
At one point, men in the Arab anti-British resistance movement find the "Protocols" and have it translated, said a co-writer, Muhammad Baghdadi.
"It was akin to running the same paragraph through Google translate multiple times, but in the end still only ten percent of the words are accurately translated," said Dr. Mann.
