# Endnotes explained — The Breaking of the Storm

> Chapter companion for The Breaking of the Storm by Friedrich Spielhagen.

## 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 lines

> 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._

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