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45 Post author: palladias 18 June 2014 06:20PM

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Comment author: palladias 18 June 2014 07:08:21PM 8 points [-]

Neat! I wasn't aware of this distinction. My French teacher just told us the French word for "false cognate" was "faux amis"

Comment author: sediment 29 June 2014 07:56:46PM 1 point [-]

Does that make the pair autological, in some sense?

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