Comment on He really wants to kill that platform lol

• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The confusion for me was that when I stomp something out, it dies. That’s not the intended verb here, but context clues alone do not a language make.

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  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mistranslation of the German Idiom “(etwas) aus dem Boden Stampfen”, to create (something) from nothing (lit. to stomp (something) out of the ground).

    Easy mistake for bilinguals to make, I was convinced it was an English Idiom as well until I looked it up.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks! I have a fondness for German idiom. “The devil shits on the biggest pile” might be my favourite.

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