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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] april 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are referring to the lemmy developers

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 19 points 1 month 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 14 points 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago

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