False friends are the best! And they also put us in very awkward situations! Look at the following one between English and German:
Can you come up with a situation where these two could get mixed up?
False friends are the best! And they also put us in very awkward situations! Look at the following one between English and German:
Can you come up with a situation where these two could get mixed up?
Not quite a mixup but kind of, some dude at a party responded to something I said with: “Das habe ich überhört…” Now, this is a pretty clear way of saying “I’m just going to ignore what you just said.”
I clearly didn’t get the gist, because I thought they had simply not heard me… so I repeated what I said, just louder
My mom always said: “Das habe ich jetzt mal besser überhört!”