Sometimes things go well if the translators are good enough.<p>I read Neuromancer both in English and Catalan, in there there were programs called ICE (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics, so a firewall) and the programs to break them were called icebreakers.<p>The catalan translator (Joan Fontcuberta i Gel) managed to translate ICE to GEL (I don&#x27;t remember what the acronym mean, but it made sense). &quot;Gel&quot; is &quot;ice&quot; in Catalan, also is one of the translator&#x27;s surnames. And so we could have &quot;trencagels&quot; as &quot;icebreakers&quot; (literal translation).<p>So, yes, most things are not easily translatable, so when they are they stand up and show us the craftmanship of the translators.