It could also just be English if you only speak English.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
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    Esperanto

    krokodili- verb, literally something like “to crocodile”

    It means when an Esperanto-speaker speaks in a language other than Esperanto while amongst other Esperanto-speakers.

    No one’s quite sure why that’s the term for it, most likely because crocodiles have a big mouth.

    When I learned that, it suddenly made a lot of sense why Duolingo taught me the word for “crocodile” so early.