Talk:Democratic Beginning

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German is my mother tongue. The word "Aufbruch" does not translate into "Awakening;" not even close. The roots of both words have analogues in the other language. "Bruch" from "brechen" to "break" and "wake" from "wachen," to wake, to awaken.

Of the translations given in my dictionary, "decampment" is the best for "Aufbruch," since the GDR was to be undone, decommissioned, analogous to breaking camp.

The mistranslation leads to another question. Why would a Democratic Republic need a Democratic Awakening, when it is in the process of decampment, decommissioning? 76.11.95.137 (talk) 16:43, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I absolutely agree – "Awakening" is an awful mistranslation of "Aufbruch". I can't think of any context in which it would be correct. Should have been fixed years ago. (I guess the original author chose it because it starts with an A and thus works nicely for the acronym DA...?) I changed it to "Beginning", per [1]. That's much closer to the meaning of "Aufbruch" in this context. But it's not really a translation either, more of a reinterpretation. Is there a better term? LEO lists several English words for "Aufbruch", e.g. "decampment" and "departure", but they are too literal. LEO also has "dawn of mankind" for "Aufbruch der Menschheit", which is fine, but "Democratic Dawn" would be a bit too poetic. There simply is no English word that has the same meaning as "Aufbruch". I actually think we should just use the German term, like many other Latin-script language Wikipedias (ca:Demokratischer Aufbruch, da:Demokratischer Aufbruch, fr:Demokratischer Aufbruch, nl:Demokratischer Aufbruch, no:Demokratischer Aufbruch, sv:Demokratischer Aufbruch), and add something like German for "Democratic Beginning" or "Democratic New Start" in parentheses. — Chrisahn (talk) 22:45, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]