• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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      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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        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.