Freestyle Rap Battle Translated. German Joys: German Word of the Week. MH points me to the a 3 Quarks Daily piece by Brooks Riley about German-English language exchange: The German language may have a reputation for exhaustively long words, but when it's pithy, it's penetrating: The word for 'scene of the crime' is 'Tatort', a linguistic slamdunk. And then there's the economical 'doch', an invention that should have been imported years ago. Language Tools.