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Krait ([personal profile] krait) wrote2021-01-13 10:04 am

False Friends

(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!)
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[personal profile] southerncontinentskies 2021-01-14 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
I'm now thinking of a multilingual "Kuzco's poison" meme that quickly devolves into a "who's on first" routine, but unfortunately I'm not clever enough to write it myself.