The foreign words that seem like English, but aren't
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Re: The foreign words that seem like English, but aren't
#2I can't help but laugh at these—is there something the matter with me? "ofisuredii" is particularly humorous.
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#3> risqué meaning ‘risked’ (a verb, not an adjective)
No. "risqué" is also an adjective denoting that something involves risks (like "risky" in English) or that a statement is licentious, shocking (like "risqué" in English).
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#4There are no double entredre's in France because they never say anything that could mean two things or because, "double entendre" (double hear), literally doesn't make sense?
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#5My favorite is salaryman.
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#6ln Spain, everyone refers to Facebook as el face, (with the English pronunciation of the word "face") which sounded pretty funny until I got used to it.
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#7They forgot parking in french which is the word for car park.
And japanese has so many of such words that are imported from English with a totally different meaning you d need a book to cover them.
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#8There are no double entredre's in France because they never say anything that could mean two things or because, "double entendre" (double hear), literally doesn't make sense?
More the latter, although a French person hearing "double entendre" might understand that it means "double sens"; it's just not an expression that is used.
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#9And then there's the whole business of Wasei-Eigo, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei-eigo.
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#10In Brazil, any kind of sports shoes is a "tenis".