You may be interested in Douglas Hofstadter&#x27;s writing about translations of the poem Jabberwocky in &lt;em&gt;Gödel Escher Bach&lt;&#x2F;em., excerpted here (at least in part, I thought there was more in the book):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www76.pair.com&#x2F;keithlim&#x2F;jabberwocky&#x2F;poem&#x2F;hofstadter.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www76.pair.com&#x2F;keithlim&#x2F;jabberwocky&#x2F;poem&#x2F;hofstadter.h...</a><p>It&#x27;s interesting how translators decided to handle a poem that consists of so many nonsense words that are meant to evoke specific ideas in an English-speaking reader.