May 30, 2022

Linguistics: The false friends, your real enemies

4 minutes

🙇 We’re not talking about loveship and hateship this week. Actually, this is about vocabulary-ship. Regarding the words whose journey through time made them evolve differently in French and English. Think about “actually”—which is not translated with “actuellement”—, or “journey”—which is not “une journée”—…

🔗 Find the full list of false friends and their actual translations in the online book "Les faux amis; ou, Les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais": https://archive.org/details/lesfauxamisoules00kssl/mode/2up

📕 Jean Pruvost's "La Story de la langue française": https://www.tallandier.com/livre/la-story-de-la-langue-francaise/

🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ

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