@Shatpoz1288 to A Boring Dystopia • 1 month agoHe really wants to kill that platform lolimagemessage-square108arrow-up1955arrow-down111
arrow-up1944arrow-down1imageHe really wants to kill that platform lol@Shatpoz1288 to A Boring Dystopia • 1 month agomessage-square108
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•1 month ago stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps. what/who are you referring to? the reddit ceo or reddit users?
minus-squareThe Snark UrgelinkEnglish19•1 month 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@Tudsamfalink14•1 month 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-squareThe Snark UrgelinkEnglish6•1 month agoThanks! I have a fondness for German idiom. “The devil shits on the biggest pile” might be my favourite.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•1 month agoWhere exactly do you think you’re writing this?
what/who are you referring to? the reddit ceo or reddit users?
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.
Where exactly do you think you’re writing this?
That’s it!. I’m going to rewatch Scrubs