False Friends

[krait]

(In response to a thread about favourite 'false friends' in language)

I'm never going to be over the weird pile of humourous potential that is poisson | poison | das Gift | a gift.



(Edit: now with the entry date fixed!)

Comments

[isis]

Ahaha that is really great - I knew the two halves but never thought about putting them together like that!

[krait]

Hee, that's what I love about false friends! It's a whole chain of Unfortunate Resemblances, bridging languages in potentially-fatal ways. :D It's like the perfect storm of dangerous confusion.


...If you gave somebody a fugu you could cover all of them at once! :P