• gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months 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?

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        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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          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.