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Endnotes explained
A brief translator's note explaining that the full effect of the word 'Schmidt' (equivalent to 'Smith' in English) cannot be conveyed in translation.
What happens
A brief translator's note explaining that the full effect of the word 'Schmidt' (equivalent to 'Smith' in English) cannot be conveyed in translation.
Key passages
“No translation can give the full effect of the play upon the word “Schmidt;” Anglicè , Smith.”
The wordplay on 'Schmidt' is lost in translation; in English it would be 'Smith'.
Translator's note on the untranslatable pun.