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[–] girl@sopuli.xyz 65 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] girl@sopuli.xyz 16 points 11 months ago

no, just forgetful lol