@[email protected] to A Boring [email protected] • 1 year agoHe really wants to kill that platform lollemmy.worldimagemessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1958
arrow-up1958imageHe really wants to kill that platform lollemmy.world@[email protected] to A Boring [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi WandlinkfedilinkEnglish20•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•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 WandlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoThanks! I have a fondness for German idiom. “The devil shits on the biggest pile” might be my favourite.
They are referring to the lemmy developers
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.