Afrikaans is a strange language

Do you not understand the post?nobody is saying hippopotamus is an Afrikaans word. It's the English word, then the literal Afrikaans meaning

It says "Afrikaans words translated directly to English."

And that's exactly what is happening in the post.

Look at the comment chain started by the_gayming_singer. It's the same misinderstanding. I really don't see how you would interpret it like that but apparently it's somewhat common

If I said here's a French word translated into English, you'd expect: French word --> English translation. Therefore, we should expect Afrikaans word--> English translation, yet the post at no point provides an Afrikaans word. It provides English words and the English direct translation of its Afrikaans counterpart.

Ooooh that's how you saw it, I get it now

I STILL HAVE NOTIFICATIONS ON FOR THIS POST AND GODDAMNIT SEE I WASN'T CRAZY

Grammar FTW!

But it is an Afrikaan word which is being translated to english!The post doesn't imply that that is the original word

That's not how this works, garden hoses aren't exusively afrikaans, but they have their own word for that. It's almost as if different languages have different words

I was saying the way the post's initial sentence was set up implies that it was saying that these were Afrikaan words that are now being given a direct translation. I.e. it was saying that "giraffe" is an Afrikaans word that literally means "Camel Horse"

This is the original Afrikaans word for potato, aardappel, but aard means earth and appel means apple. I would know, as a South African :/ It is actually the direct translation. The giraffe word, kameelperd, literally means camel horse, but to Afrikaaners? It means giraffe. It's kinda how languages work.