LL-L "False friends" 2004.06.04 (07) [E]

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From: John Duckworth <jcduckworth2003 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: False Friends

Dear Lowlanders,

I was writing something the other day about 'False Friends' (Faux Amis)
between different languages; you must all be aware of so many of them, like
'gift' in English, meaning 'a present', and 'Gift' in German, meaning
'poison' -a totally false friend, while others are partially false - thus,
French 'voyage' is any journey, while the English 'voyage' is only a journey
by sea.

Now, I began to wonder about something, and I need to phrase this carefully:
do False Friends also commonly occur between contiguous speech forms? What I
mean are there False Friends, for instance, between Standard German and Low
Saxon - two speech forms that will be spoken in the same place by the same
person in different social contexts? The curious thing is that after some
thought about this, I have not been able to come up with many examples, and
I have thought of none in the Germanic languages.

John Duckworth
Preston, UK

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