What is lost in translation and why?

If one day we go to another country to meet people of that place, and we want to talk about a great joke we know about, it is sure it will not be so funny as in our language. This is because for people of other countries to understand it, you will need to translate all the whole joke until it makes sense. This and other things are get lost in translation. In this essay we are going to review some points about what do people get lost in translations and why do it happens. 

 A great example are literature books from different authors that are not from our country and get translated to, in my case, spanish. Maybe we can understand what the story is about,but not the whole idea. This happens because every writer has its own writing style, his or her way of making jokes, reflexing parts and the spontaniety on how he or she is making the story. With translation, all this writing skills of the author tend to get lost or become confused because some words are not meaning the same in the other language than in the original book. 

 It is more difficult when people translate poetry to one language to another. It is valid, but you can lose most of the rhetorical figures that are in the poem, and with this it loses the meaning of the poem or what it is about. In this case, some languages have special words that have special sounds. This can give the idea of how someting smells, sounds or simply what it is. With knowing this, we can wonder why some people prefer to read poetry from authors with the same language or to read poetry in the language that is written. 

 Finally, another thing that can get lost in tranlation is when people are used to talk and express themselves with their certain language to communicate, and when they want to express an idea in another language,they have to  change the gramatical order of the words so the people with another language can understand what you are tying to say. If you do not know this and translate words directly without cheking grammar and spelling, the things you want to say may not be that clear at all. This includes how you talk and how you write.