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    1. RecklessGeek on

      I was translating my site to German but the basic word “speed bump” has been a challenge. Google Translate told me to use Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung but it doesn’t even fit on the site lol.

      AI recommended Bodenschwellen, [so I’m using that now](https://speedbumpapp.com/de/). But a friend told me that’s not used at all… Any recommendations?

    3. Megaflarp on

      IMO the bigger issue is that Germans wouldn’t use that as a figure of speech at all. I’m thinking here that you want to use ‘speed bump’ to mean “inconvenience, problem” etc. But I gotta get back to my desk at work so someone else has to finish my thought.

    4. kos90 on

      In this context you might as well use „Schlagloch“

      Thats a different thing (pot hole) but works the same way. Plus, its more commonly known and doesn’t sound like a 1:1 translation.

    6. Roadrunner571 on

      Please don’t try to translate texts word-for-word into other languages. That often doesn’t work.

      Like “Sucht-Apps” can be interpreted as apps related to addictions. “süchtigmachende Apps” would be more clear.

      And I don’t know if most Germans would get your speed bump analogy.

    7. JanniAkaFreaky on

      Almost every rhetoric you used is lost in translation anyway…
      The word not fitting is not the main problem imo

    8. Parapolikala on

      Your translators/localisers should be able to come up with an alternative that works.

    9. bekopharm on

      Yikes. The language isn’t your problem. It’s the auto translation. Get someone who can translate idioms for you 😆

    10. Actual-Garbage2562 on

      Use the English word. Younger Germans, I.e. the internet generations, will understand „speed bump“ just fine.

    11. Background-Ad9327 on

      Have you heard if DeepL? Best translation ever. And it’s free

    12. timxr_ on

      That’s not the correct translation for „speed bumps“

      It would be „Bodenschwelle“ like it is translated the second time

    13. freshfishseven on

      “Speed bumps” are some kind of “…schwellen” or “Kissen” in German.
      However, the general term for these measures are “Verkehrsberuhigung”, traffic calming measures.
      As multiple others wrote “Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung” are speed limits which don’t make sense here.

    14. OptimalStable on

      Okay, I’m gonna be the party pooper and say that the language didn’t break your website, you did: by not accounting for differences in word lengths across multiple languages, which is UX 101 as far as I’m concerned.

      Make sure the element allows word wrapping and use the CSS rule `hyphens: auto;` to avoid this.

    15. djnorthstar on

      Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung is wrong.. Its Bodenschwelle. Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung means just Speed Limit. Some also call them “Huckel”. But thats slang.

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