Eli5: Why do some languages get lost in translation?

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I get that ofcourse no languages will be exactly identical but as a bilingual, whenever i watch a show with my native language and the subtitles are set on to my second language, so many of the meanings get lost in translation even when the translation is pretty accurate? How could this be

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Another one are situations where it sounds like the right translation, but carries a different meaning.

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“Ich bin ein Berliner” ended up being “I’m a jelly doughnut”

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