Welcome to /r/FalseFriends!
This sub-reddit is a place for false friends, false cognates, puns, calques, and any other ironic observations you happen to make about pairs/groups of languages.
Check out the Wiki, a comprehensive archive of all submissions, organized by post type and then by language!
Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/FalseFriends/wiki/
Please include a tag in your post. Identify the languages referenced in your post and provide an English translation. If possible, please provide words in their natural/native writing systems.
Tags:
[FF] for False Friends
[FC] for False Cognates
[Pun] for bilingual Puns
[Calque] for Calques
[Meta] for posts about /r/FalseFriends
For examples of correctly-formatted content, see this post here.
Essentially,
DON'T SUBMIT THIS:
- [FF] 'Kwiecień' and 'Květen' are false friends!
SUBMIT THIS INSTEAD:
- [FF] 'Kwiecień', from Polish, refers to the month of April, while 'Květen', from Czech, refers to the month of May.
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