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Lingvo: English
eitanulo (Montri la profilon) 2012-majo-20 10:44:21
Here are some of my own experience:
Farti (eng: to fart) ~ Definitely the most notorious
demandi (to demand) *Get confused each time
.. Should'v meant " to ask"pensi (penis, pants, panties)
familia (familiar)
almenaŭ (almost)
stari (star, to stare)
biro (beer)
nodi (to node)
ŝnuro (snore)
faka (fake)
baldaŭ (bald)
dum (doom, dumb, drum)
sed (seed)
bani (bunny)
varma (warm) ::Not the same!!
trista (Tristan, from Yugioh!)
kurta (court, curtain)
for (for)
manki (monkey)
drinki (to drink)
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darkweasel (Montri la profilon) 2012-majo-20 10:50:49
eitanulo (Montri la profilon) 2012-majo-20 10:56:00
Listo de falsaj amikojNice list you've got there
hebda999 (Montri la profilon) 2012-majo-20 14:23:33
eitanulo:Some words in Esperanto may bear similarities to existing English words with different meanings.So what? Should Esperanto be changed? I don't care if any esperanto word confuses the English. It is enough that English is confusing my own language.
Here are some of my own experience:
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eitanulo (Montri la profilon) 2012-majo-20 14:30:15
Demian (Montri la profilon) 2012-majo-20 14:47:50
Would you check if my translation is correct?
Ĉu vi bonvolve kontrolos mian tradukon?
hebda999 (Montri la profilon) 2012-majo-20 15:36:09
eitanulo:Who said anything about changing..?It is quite usual when you learn a foreign language that you encounter false friends. English is no exception here.
nova --- Spanish no va - doesn't function
koro --- Polish kora - bark
lustro --- Polish - lustro - mirror
and so on.
What is more interesting are esperanto words that are confusing for esperantists themselves:
eraro --- er + aro - many, many small objects
kolego --- kol + ego - very big neck
kulero --- kul + ero - small part of a mosquito
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eitanulo (Montri la profilon) 2012-majo-20 17:46:43
What is more interesting are esperanto words that are confusing for esperantists themselves:Haha!! Then I could too say that "konsenti" is a confusing word for Esperantists..
eraro --- er + aro - many, many small objects
kolego --- kol + ego - very big neck
kulero --- kul + ero - small part of a mosquito
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Ondo (Montri la profilon) 2012-majo-20 17:54:37
hebda999:What is more interesting are esperanto words that are confusing for esperantists themselves:Could you please give us an example of such confusion? Words like these are indispensable in wordplay and wordplay is great fun, but confusing?
eraro --- er + aro - many, many small objects
kolego --- kol + ego - very big neck
kulero --- kul + ero - small part of a mosquito
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hebda999 (Montri la profilon) 2012-majo-21 06:15:16
Ondo:I was joking, don't you see that? Reductio ad absurdum.hebda999:What is more interesting are esperanto words that are confusing for esperantists themselves:Could you please give us an example of such confusion? Words like these are indispensable in wordplay and wordplay is great fun, but confusing?
eraro --- er + aro - many, many small objects
kolego --- kol + ego - very big neck
kulero --- kul + ero - small part of a mosquito
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