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359: False Friends (Live Q&A)
They feel so right, but sound so wrong.
They're false friends — pairs of words in different languages that seem like they'd mean the same thing, but don't. Which ones have you run across in your language experience?
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By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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They feel so right, but sound so wrong.
They're false friends — pairs of words in different languages that seem like they'd mean the same thing, but don't. Which ones have you run across in your language experience?
Our friends have sent their favourites for this episode of Talk the Talk.
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