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Contrasting the ordinary meaning of saudade as used in everyday life and the philosophical meanings attributed to it by the literary and cultural movement of Saudosismo, it's shown that there are equivalent terms to the word in the first sense but not in the second, which has several deep connotations that are further explored in this text.
Literature and poetry contain very sensitive material and context within the simple text, and translating one is a story of its own. However, inexperienced translators sometimes forget about it, which sometimes brings hilarious or unintelligible paragraphs of text. However, that is not the desirable result of the hard work, and it only damages the translation and credibility of the translator and publisher (unless editor fixes these mistakes in time).