• girl@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    famous examples of this in my family include “lava mountain” for volcano and “lamp hat” for lamp shade

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      1 year ago

      Is your family bilingual or multilingual? I find that I do that type of translation between languages and it gets lost in translation.