Shatpoz1288@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year agoHe really wants to kill that platform lollemmy.worldimagemessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1960
arrow-up1960imageHe really wants to kill that platform lollemmy.worldShatpoz1288@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square105fedilink
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 year agoThe 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.
minus-squareTudsamfa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year agoMistranslation 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.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoThanks! I have a fondness for German idiom. “The devil shits on the biggest pile” might be my favourite.
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.
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.
Thanks! I have a fondness for German idiom. “The devil shits on the biggest pile” might be my favourite.