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katrinal10n.bsky.social
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27 days ago
i feel an essay brewing about translating スイーツ as "sweets"
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sunlitlake.bsky.social
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27 days ago
Not knowing any Japanese, I assumed that calling desserts "sweets" was an Americanism. Since Sweets in the UK is you know, haribo, wine gums, jelly babies, sherbet dib dabs and so on. Interesting to learn it's just a false friend twice over!
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katch.bsky.social
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27 days ago
I need more false friends segments because I've been in Japan too long and sometimes I forget certain things aren't things 😅
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niten.bsky.social
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27 days ago
Could you touch upon レア as in レアチーズケーキ?
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katrinal10n.bsky.social
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27 days ago
now THAT is a false friend
perhaps this is a false friends/cognates thread
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rhubarbpiart.bsky.social
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26 days ago
so like マンション and all that? 😂
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