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Endnote 172 — "Pursuit of happiness"

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Renders the phrase as "Pursuit of happiness."

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Did you know? Fielding his Italian translators' questions over untranslatable slang like "nerd" and "wedgie" ("there's no such thing as a wedgie in Italy"), Wallace warned that the wrong fix could "kill the whole connotative value of it" (culturemap-pitchel-hrc-dfw-series-2011).