A Conversation for Confusion between Words Used in English and German

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Post 1

toxicblonde


I loved the article. It's wierd, when you speak the languages, you don't realise that there are words like that until someone points them out. Nice one!

My personal favourite was "gift" smiley - smiley


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Post 2

Malabarista - now with added pony

The first time I went to the US as a child, the mother of the person we were visiting said she had some gifts for us and was very confused when my sister and I ran screaming from the room!


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Post 3

AgProv2

General Heinrici (the man who drew the short straw in 1945 and who had to command the last defence line east of Berlin and try and keep the Russians at bay - he managed to hold an army twenty times the size of his own at bay for ten days) was known to his troops as "der Giftzwig" - the Poison Dwarf...


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Post 4

Malabarista - now with added pony

Giftzwerg, actually smiley - winkeye


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Post 5

AgProv2

I stand corrected. Thank you!


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