faux amis

[Uladzimir Katkouski]

Thank you!

And, by the way, those few that are listed, are wrong. At least in case
of Russian - Belarusian, Polish - Belarusian, Ukrainian - Belarusian.
Almost half of them is wrong. And he missed some very obvious and
well-known ones. For example, in Russian "blago" means "good", and in
Belarusan "blaho" means "bad".

Regards,
Uladzimir Katkouski
http://www.pravapis.org/ - Belarusian Language Site


Danko Sipka <Danko.Sipka at ASU.EDU> wrote:

>The site is certainly interesting. Let me add a word of caution. The
> site
> lists only a small fragment of the existing Slavic "faux amis". If you
> take
> a look at the bilingual faux amis, their number does not exceed one
> hundred
> in any of the pairs. In reality, the number of such pairs is closer to
> one
> thousand than one hundred (not true for language variants, such as
> between
> Serbian and Croatian). Several years ago I have compiled, with a group
> of
> collaborators, Serbian - Polish Dictionary of Interlingual Homonyms
and
> Paronyms (published as: Danko Sipka (red.) Slownik serbsko-polskich
> homonimów i paronimów, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 1999). We adopted very
> strict criteria of differentiating between faux amis on the one hand
(as
> a
> psycholinguistic category) and interlingual homonyms and paronyms (as
> contrastive lexicological category) and our inclusion criteria were
> quite
> selective. Even with such approach, the number of pairs in the
> dictionary is
> 645. Interestingly enough, the number of such pairs between English
and
> Slavic langauges is approximately the same. I have compiled such
> database
> for the English - Serbo-Croatian (aka BCS, Bosniac, Bosnian, Croatian,
> Montenegrin, Serbian, and Vojvodinian) pairs. Their number is
> approximately
> the same (some 700 pairs) as between Slavic languages. I was quite
> surprised
> to see this. The main reason is that the borrowings from Latin tend to
> undergo different metaphorical extensions in English on the one hand
and
> Slavic languages on the other.
> Best,
>
>
> Danko Sipka
> Associate Professor Research and Acting Director
> Critical Languages Institute (http://cli.la.asu.edu)
> Arizona State University
> E-mail: Danko.Sipka at asu.edu
> Web: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka
> Phone: (480) 965 7705
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Dingley" <jdingley at YORKU.CA>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 8:37 AM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] faux amis
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to draw attention to the following site dealing with
> > Slavic "faux amis":
> >
> > http://www.uni-bonn.de/~dbuncic/fauxamis/
> >
> > John Dingley
> >
> > ------------
> > http://dlll.yorku.ca/jding.html
> >
> >
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