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False friends<\/em> are words in two languages (or letters in two alphabets) that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning. An example is the English embarrassed and the Spanish embarazada (which means pregnant), or the word sensible, which means reasonable in English, but sensitive in French and Spanish. \u2013From Wikipedia <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Translators are interested in such things, they find them interesting, at times annoying or amusing. A few examples off the top of my head. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Hell in German is the opposite of dark, it means bright, full of light, so it is actually something very pleasant. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The superbly elegant shoe brand is surely successful all over the world except for German-speaking countries where its name means death. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Pathologist comes from the Greek, like most words pertaining to Medicine. However a \u201cpathologos\u201d in Greece is a GP whereas a pathologist is called \u201cpathologoanatomos\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Deception in French means disappointment. Aren\u2019t we always disappointed by deceivers? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Empathy comes also from the Greek word \u201cpathos\u201d meaning passion. In Greek it doesn\u2019t mean putting yourself into the place of another in order to feel how he or she feels and better understand them. It means to be passionately prejudiced against someone, almost inimical. So, quite the contrary of what it means in English. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Some very famous false friends in Italian and Spanish are the words for butter and donkey. They are both \u201cburro\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And of course an all-time classic when you try to think between German and Italian, the \u201ekalt\u201c \u2013 \u201ecaldo\u201c combination. They sound similar but they are complete opposites like cold and hot. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAlso\u201d as the Germans would say not meaning also but trying to wrap up a conversation. \u201cAlso\u201d these were some examples of false friends in a few languages. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n July 1, 2017. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" False friends are words in two languages (or letters in two alphabets) that look or sound similar, but differ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.onliners.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.onliners.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.onliners.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.onliners.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.onliners.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.onliners.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.onliners.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}