this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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famous examples of this in my family include “lava mountain” for volcano and “lamp hat” for lamp shade
Is your family bilingual or multilingual? I find that I do that type of translation between languages and it gets lost in translation.
no, just forgetful lol