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[–] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, false friends (loan words that don't mean what they mean in the original language) are super common.

Edit: The definition I gave is wrong, or rather too narrow. Wikipedia says this:

In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning.

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