History: False Friends

Source of version: 3 (current)

Perhaps the title of this page is not the best one. The idea was to collect here English words with ambiguous meaning which are likely to mislead a beginner. --''mi'e ((Evgenii Sklyanin|.evgenis.))'' * A ''false friend'' is a word like "curve", which looks like an English word, but has a different meaning in Lojban. The only others I can think of quickly are "to" and "be". ** The ((gismu)) which are spelled the same as a common English word are these. I tried to make the list complete. There are near-misses; for example, ''gurni'' is like "gurney". "Pruce" is a rare English word; I will be unsurprised if many other gismu match up with rare English words. ''mi'e ((jezrax))'' crane curve glare mitre ruble santa since tuple See also ((malglico)), ((Misleading Gismu Keywords)), ((Swedish False Friends)), ((Norwegian False Friends)), ((Spanish False Friends)) *This overlaps with Misleading Gismu Keywords, but I think it still deserves its own page -- nitcion ---- __think__ ;: (think about ...; ponder) - ''pensi'' ;: (think that ...) - ''jinvi'' ---- __old__ ;: (opposite to new) - ''slabu'' ;: (opposite to young) - ''tolci'o'' ---- __cold__ ;: (temperature) - ''lenku'' ;: (ailment) - ''???'' zbitisna (mi'e pier.), vaxterbi'a (mi'e filip.) ---- ''papri'' means specifically a page of a bound book or booklet. That is when the pages come out of the printing press, they are merely ''pelji boxfo'' until someone staples, stitches or glues them together in the back. ''No, a bit more than just that: a'' '''selpri''' ke pelji boxfo '' (mi'e .aulun.)'' ---- cipnrgru crane front ba'o, ki'u since snake midju centre centimetre mei tuple leg jdatro mapku, jgavelfendi mitre metre