False Friends
Jul. 11th, 2006 01:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslFalse Friends is a fun article to read:
...but it still has huge potential. For example, they could show a certain Dutch farmer introducing herself. Specifically, her business is to breed dogs.
Please contribute! :-)
See also Pseudo-anglicism (examples from Brazil tend to exhibit a funny pattern: shopping center -> shopping ; "Cooper"(PT) means jogging(noun) ; personal trainer -> personal ; top model -> top ;)
Mistakes can also occur between very closely related languages. In German, Huren means "whores", in Dutch huren means "to rent", and Huursoldaat means "mercenary", not "whore soldier" (Actually, a mercenary is a soldier for hire, and a whore is someone for hire so the meaning is quite similar).
...but it still has huge potential. For example, they could show a certain Dutch farmer introducing herself. Specifically, her business is to breed dogs.
Please contribute! :-)
See also Pseudo-anglicism (examples from Brazil tend to exhibit a funny pattern: shopping center -> shopping ; "Cooper"(PT) means jogging(noun) ; personal trainer -> personal ; top model -> top ;)