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Re: false friends

#2322 08/01/2000 11:09 AM

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dreisenberger

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My favourite ever false friend was one between English and Italian. A train connection in Italian is known as a

coincidenza

Perfectly logical of course- it's the meaning in English that's crept to mean something else.

Does this false friend work in any other latinate languages?

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