LL-L "False friends" 2004.06.10 (04) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: False friends

I wrote:

> beer (<Beer>, like 'bear') 'berry'; 'bore' (pig); 'beer'; 'pear'

Obviously that was supposed to be spelled <boar> for the male pig.  Sorry.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "False friends" 2004.06.10 (02) [E]

Ron quoted some false friends:

> klot (<Klott>, like "clot") 'cap'

Oh dear,that reminds me... When I first learned Dutch, talking to family and
friends, I often frivolously replaced words I didn't know with the German
equivalent and the ending "-tje", which in some cases makes perfectly good
Dutch; more often, it doesn't, but then at least it's good for a laugh.

So I was looking for the toilet in a restaurant, and couldn't come up with
the Dutch word for "loo", which is "plee" - I used the German word "Klo"
instead and modified it to sound more Dutch. So I told my somewhat
bewildered father-in law: "Ik ga even het klootje zoeken", which means
something like "Excuse me while I go look for the testicle".

Older and wiser,
Gabriele Kahn

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