> I gather we call them "killer whales" because of a mistranslation of "whale killers". I thought this was a stupid assumption so I set out to prove you wrong.

> I gather we call them "killer whales" because of a mistranslation of "whale killers". I thought this was a stupid assumption so I set out to prove you wrong. I was wrong [0]. I could use practice humbly admitting that more often. Wiktionary, for what it's worth: Calque or mistranslation of Spanish asesina-ballenas (whale killer), referring to their tendency to hunt whales. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/killer_whale https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/killer_whale