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How do you translate German wordplay into English?
This is a somewhat generic issue, I suppose, in that it affects both English-to-German and German-to-English translation.
Today I came across what I thought was an example of good German wordplay:
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What does the term “fremdschämen” mean? How to write it correctly?
Saw this in a chat, doesn't yield an answer.
Is this similar to have a pity on somebody?
And how to write those word-creations? Is there a general rule of thumb?
Seems pretty arbitrary. I saw:
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