WTF is Sommerwampe? :: I have a better translator for you

by Volker Weber

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John recently asked me what Sommerwampe is. I had written a casual article about how habits, good or bad, change our lives for the better or worse. And I was referring to a mistake I made. I did not go on the scales this summer and ended up with quite a belly because of bad nutrition and neglect. I called it my summer belly and created a new German word for it: Sommerwampe, loosely translatable as summer womb.

If you translate my text with Google Translate or the competing Microsoft Translator, it will not be able to decode that. German has this nice rule that you can concatenate nouns to make new nouns, which quickly breaks translators. But it does not break DeepL. I told John about it and he tweeted:

If you try to follow my German texts and Google Translate will make you scratch your head, go ahead and try DeepL.

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Thomas Cloer, 2019-01-02

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