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faux amis

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7 months ago reesetee said:

I second (third?) c_b and sionnach, padawan. It's always interesting to compare similar lists, too!

7 months ago sionnach said:

Padawan: yes, please keep adding to your list! My Spanish is not all that good, so there are a lot of words that I will not know.

padawan's list

7 months ago chained_bear said:

Absolutely, padawan! Definitely keep working on it.

sionnach, once again... If you keep hogging all the genius, what will the rest of us do?! *rolls eyes*

7 months ago padawan said:

i made one of the english words that are false friends to spanish, and added the definitions in both languages to each word. now that i found this one i don't know if i should keep working on mine...

8 months ago sionnach said:

I'm still working on the French ones. Spanish still to come.

8 months ago reesetee said:

Great idea, sionnach. :-)

8 months ago Misterpolly said:

Fun list for those who know German and French. A nice Italian "falso amico" is "morbido" = soft (morboso = morbid).
A friend who worked for Lever Bros. tells me that they tried (unsuccessfully) to market a deodorant spray in Germany with the unhappy name of "Body Mist". A little homework might have saved them a lot of money - not even a free gift would have helped.

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