• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    19 days ago

    Yeah, false friends (loan words that don’t mean what they mean in the original language) are super common.

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        18 days ago

        Mixing those up would certainly be embarassing, though :D

        Example from German: “sensible” is not “sensibel”

        also “handy” and “Handy”