Resurrectionist ist Leichenräuber, nicht Wiederaufrsteher? #goodomens #falsefriends

"die in hell!" vs "Die in hell!" capital matters :blobcathappy:

https://youtu.be/h3RI-SsHm98

#englisch #falsefriends #fremdsprache

So here's a couple of words that look like they want to cause me trouble.

The word for "magazine", журнал, sounds like "journal", and the word for "store", магазин, sounds like "magazine".

Fortunately, I've been through this before with French "journal" (newspaper) and "magasin" (store). I suspect Ukrainian borrow these words from French, directly or indirectly.

One again, my (intermediate at best) French helps out my Ukrainian.

#LearningUkrainian
#FalseFriends

English: ordinary people versus
Dutch: ordinaire mensen

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A quick reminder that “manure” (English) and “manuren” (Dutch) are very different words.
And you might need both for a good harvest.

#falsefriends 🇬🇧🇳🇱

@linguistics @languagelovers #languages #languagelearning #falsefriends

Among the difficulties often found by learners of closely related languages are the so-called "false friends", words that look the same or are very similar but whose meaning is different in each of those languages.

Below there is a selection of common "false friends" in #Spanish and #Italian .

#español #italiano

TIL "typhus" in English is not the same as "Typhus" in German. There isn't much cause to talk about either where I live, so the risk for misunderstandings is only small.
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Hier wurde einfach das deutsche Wort Kreislaufwirtschaft in Circular Economy übersetzt.
Dabei ist CE so viel mehr als nur die Trennung, Entsorgung und Recycling.

#CircularEconomy #falsefriends

#Spanish speaker walks into a #Portuguese store and goes whaaat?! 😳

#FalseFriends
#Languages
#Portugal

#Spanish speaker walks into a #Portuguese store and goes whaaat?! 😳

#FalseFriends
#Languages
#Portugal

Achtung! False Friends im Supermarkt in Bahrain. Das ist kein Bier!!! Noch nichtmal belgische Fruchtbier. #keinBier #Bahrain #falsefriends

Many years ago, I heard a rather strait-laced German gentleman complain that his 'Kreuz' (cross) was hurting. Coming from him, this seemed startlingly direct: pain in his genitals?!

But no, no. In my Dutch, kruis means crotch all right (since this is where the trouser seams cross). But the German cognate Kreuz is 'just' the lower back, so named after the Kreuzbein (sacrum, in anatomical English).

#falsefriends

Mastodon 4.0 bekommt eine "Warnung vor sensiblen Audiobeiträgen in der Web-UI". Was genau sind sensible Beiträge? Weinen die, wenn man sie anmacht? #FalseFriends

Per la rubrica "salvate i falsi amici":

In inglese "parent" significa "genitore".
Quindi l'aggettivo "parental" si traduce "genitoriale" e non 'parentale'. 😉

#falsiamici #falsefriends #itanglese

Das ist sicher schon einer Menge Masto-Kollegen auf-gefallen, aber ich will es einmal auf-schreiben:

Im Rahmen einer Diss ein wenig mit den Zitatkennzeichnungen zu schludern ist nicht selten und bei Politikern schon mal eine breite Diskussion wert.

Was ist aber mit Reden, Verlautbarungen oder Stellungnahmen im Amt, bspw. als Außenministerin? - Sollte da nicht das Original verpflichtend sein?

Woher kommen dann die zahlreichen #FalseFriends-Fehler ("internationales Recht") in #ALB|s Reden?

Bahman移居到德国的话可以叫Bachmann #falsefriends

Actually, it's not the "actual current", it's the "current current".

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