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If anyone's wondering, Präservativ means "condom" in German. My favorite false cognate in German is "das Gift", which in English is in fact "poison".
by kyleslattery 16y ago
If 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.)