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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (17 children)

You could do this all day with Vietnamese. Kangaroo is bag mouse. Orca is assassin fish, giraffe is a long-necked deer. Etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

German has Killerwahl (killer whale) for orca

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't know. So the German might be a calque from the English

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