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But in English it does not mean translated. In that sense it is a false friend, it shares etymology with Romanian traduce but not meaning.
by kwhitefoot 6y ago
But in English it does not mean translated. In that sense it is a false friend, it shares etymology with Romanian traduce but not meaning.
- pessimizer 6y agoSaying it is a false friend is just a repetition of what I just said. In English it is a euphemism, like "going out" means being involved in a romance. Traduce- means to translate, as a euphemism it becomes to distort. The only way to know what the word means in English is to know what the word means in English; there's no hinting other than context, and the contexts of the two possible meanings could be very similar. It's obviously not an incorrect usage, just an unnecessarily alienating one.