(la) Chompa (CHOM-pah): If you analyze it, the English word “sweater” is an ugly term for something that’s usually quite nice. The word sounds sweaty, a bad association to have with something warm and fuzzy that you wear next to your skin and typically don’t wash that often. Worse, the word also can refer to a person who sweats a lot (“Yep, my firstborn never did keep his covers on at night. Always was a sweater.”). Isn’t there a word in another language that expresses the nice-wooly-pullover concept better? Enter the Latin American “chompa,” which translates as “pullover sweater” but is more fun to say. To my ear, “chompa” has…