359: False Friends (Live Q&A) - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

from 2019-04-19T04:00

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They feel so right, but sound so wrong.

They're false friends — pairs of words in different languages that seem like they'd mean the same thing, but don't. Which ones have you run across in your language experience?

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