[Lexicog] Re:False friends - Faux Amis -- falske venner

[Benjamin Barrett]

Wikipedia provides a list of foreign words coined in Japanese, similar  
to the process by which we have coined Latin and Greek words such as  
intercom and television: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gairaigo_and_wasei-eigo_terms 
. BB

On Aug 14, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Louis Janus wrote:

>
> I have a collection of falske venner between Norwegian and English  
> on my web page:
>
> http://norwegianlanguage.info/words/false-friends.htm
>
> And there is a link of such pairs among from Swedish to the other  
> Nordic languages.
>
> Louis Janus
>
>
> 

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