What Are False Friends?
Minute Linguistics
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0:00 foreign welcome to minute Linguistics today we're talking about false friends and by false friends I don't mean Ella from
0:09 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
0:17 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
0:25 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
0:33 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
0:41 [ __ ] 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
0:49 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
1:00 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
1:10 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
1:19 [ __ ] and check means fresh baked goods in polishivo means stale baked goods and last but not least douche in French
1:29 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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1:42 the comments below and I'll see you next time