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kyleslattery
on April 18, 2011
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If anyone's wondering, Präservativ means "condom" in German. My favorite false cognate in German is "das Gift", which in English is in fact "poison".
eru
on April 18, 2011
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It also bugs me that there's no clear and simple equivalent of "schenken". (There are words like `bestow', but they don't quite cut it.)
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