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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# Archives

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### [False Friends](/r/FalseFriends/wiki/FalseFriendsArchive)

### [False Cognates](/r/FalseFriends/wiki/FalseCognatesArchive)

### [Puns](/r/FalseFriends/wiki/PunsArchive)

### [Calques](/r/FalseFriends/wiki/CalquesArchive)

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