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 Post subject: Re: False friends
PostPosted: Wed 11 Apr 2012, 03:23 
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Lodhas wrote:
Celinceithir wrote:
Exhibition
:eng: - exposition
:fra: - display

I use 'exhibition' to mean 'display' on a regular basis.


Exhibition = art exhibition, trade exhibition > exposition in French.

Exhibition in French = display as in a display in a shop or as in a public display (provocative behaviour). Also used to refer to exhibiting animals.

So one would say exposition d'art contemporain rather than exhibition.

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 Post subject: Re: False friends
PostPosted: Wed 11 Apr 2012, 13:11 
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smrk wrote:
I'm pretty sure that every dirty word in a Slavic language means something innocent in another one
As a Croat,I can say that it is good that Czech and Croatian are partially intelligible so Croats can explain to Czechs that they only wanted to offer cold drink to Czechs.
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 Post subject: Re: False friends
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They're just barely mutually intelligible enough to be useful, but optimally intelligible to sound hilarious for speakers of both languages, apparently.

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