What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it’s to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

    • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      “Me voy a ir yendo” can translate into “I’m leaving”, but it is funny because you are using three times, in spanish, the same verb.

      Edit: I play with it and as a prank sometimes I translate it like if it were a chain of “going to”. “I’m going to going to to”