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Yes, thanks for that. I should know better by now. Once while living in Germany I asked someone in my German-peppered-with-english-words-for-german-words-I-didn
by noonespecial 16y ago
Yes, thanks for that. I should know better by now. Once while living in Germany I asked someone in my German-peppered-with-english-words-for-german-words-I-didn't-know if they were concerned about the amount of preservatives in some sort of shelf stable cheese food.
They heard Präservativ when I probably meant Konservierungsmittel. Hilarity ensued.
- kyleslattery 16y agoIf anyone's wondering, Präservativ means "condom" in German. My favorite false cognate in German is "das Gift", which in English is in fact "poison".
- eru 16y agoIt also bugs me that there's no clear and simple equivalent of "schenken". (There are words like `bestow', but they don't quite cut it.)