A Boring Dystopia

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He really wants to kill that platform lol (lemmy.world)

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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