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What Are False Friends?
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- foreign welcome to minute Linguistics today we're talking about false friends and by false friends I don't mean Ella from
- fifth grade who approached you made friends with you and after three months asked you out on a date you suspecting zero Foul Play whatsoever said yes only
- for her to laugh in your face because it was actually all an elaborate plan Ella constructed with her friends to make fun of you now I'm talking about false
- friends and languages imagine the following situation you're just hanging out and you get approached by a German guy who's like Hello this gift is for
- you as he hands you a bottle don't drink it because gift means poison in German now the German dude is obviously a false friend given that he just tried to
- [ __ ] kill you but the word gift itself is one too basically words that are very similar across more languages but have wildly different meanings are
- false friends the name comes from French it's a calc or literal translation of fuami which comes from the longer phrase a translator's false friend first used
- in 1928 in the book false friends were the pitfalls of the English vocabulary by these guys anyways here are some more examples in Spanish embarasada doesn't
- mean embarrassed but rather pregnant in Swedish kiss doesn't mean kiss but rather piss in that Spirit also has nothing to do with comedy but rather
- [ __ ] and check means fresh baked goods in polishivo means stale baked goods and last but not least douche in French
- doesn't mean douchebag but rather just a shower do you know any false friends share them with us in the comments thanks for watching this episode of
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