The concept of &#39;translation of realia&#39; is doubly conventional: realia are normally untranslatable (from a dictionary perspective) and, again, are normally not rendered (in context) by means of translation.<br />With respect to dictionary translation, however, &quot;there are no words that could not be translated into another language, at least descriptively, i.e. by means of a widespread combination of words of the given language&quot;, and &quot;what is not possible with respect to a single element, is possible with respect to a complex whole&quot;, i.e. with respect to a contextual translation.