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Thakowsaizmu
 Post subject: Re: False friends
PostPosted: Mon 09 Apr 2012, 16:13 
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Ceresz wrote:
:eng: Kiss [kʰɪs] - You all know what this means.

I don't. Please explain.

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Ceresz
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PostPosted: Mon 09 Apr 2012, 16:17 
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Do you want me to demonstrate or something...?

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Thakowsaizmu
 Post subject: Re: False friends
PostPosted: Mon 09 Apr 2012, 19:07 
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Ceresz wrote:
Do you want me to demonstrate or something...?

Well, what does it involve?

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Omzinesý
 Post subject: Re: False friends
PostPosted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 11:34 
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:eng: arm
:deu: arm 'poor' (can maybe be a body part too)

I really wonder if that has gone through a semantic shift.
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Ceresz
 Post subject: Re: False friends
PostPosted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 13:19 
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Thakowsaizmu wrote:
Ceresz wrote:
Do you want me to demonstrate or something...?

Well, what does it involve?

Don't worry, I'll have your girlfriend give you the physical demonstration. I will just be videotap- err, documenting it all for scientific purposes [B)].

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[oʊ̯n ˈgɾaːtɪ sɛmː jɛtː baɾn ˈkʰʋɛːnɛɾ jaː ˈsʏd͡ʑːɪ jɛtː laː ʊmː ˈdɛɪ̯an]
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Thakowsaizmu
 Post subject: Re: False friends
PostPosted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 16:47 
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Ceresz wrote:
Thakowsaizmu wrote:
Ceresz wrote:
Do you want me to demonstrate or something...?

Well, what does it involve?

Don't worry, I'll have your girlfriend give you the physical demonstration. I will just be videotap- err, documenting it all for scientific purposes [B)].

Oh. Well... if it's for science...

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Celinceithir
 Post subject: Re: False friends
PostPosted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 17:42 
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Gift
:eng: - present
:deu: - poison

Exhibition
:eng: - exposition
:fra: - display

The perennial error:

:eng: - embarrassed
:esp: - avergonzada (≠ embarazada)

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 Post subject: Re: False friends
PostPosted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 18:18 
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Celinceithir wrote:
Exhibition
:eng: - exposition
:fra: - display

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

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 Post subject: Re: False friends
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Lodhas wrote:
Celinceithir wrote:
Exhibition
:eng: - exposition
:fra: - display

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

As do I.

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 Post subject: Re: False friends
PostPosted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 23:01 
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Omzinesý wrote:
:eng: arm
:deu: arm 'poor' (can maybe be a body part too)

I really wonder if that has gone through a semantic shift.

Nah it's two different words that shifted to the same form in Proto-Germanic, in most Germanic languages you'll find both words yet today; German has Arm 'arm' in addition to arm 'poor', Scandinavian languages have arm(ur) for both, and apparently arm can also mean 'poor' in certain English dialects.

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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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smrk
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PostPosted: Sat 21 Apr 2012, 21:30 
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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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