Did you hear about the man who collects “old-timers”? 👴🏽Or that Frank Sinatra has many “evergreens”? 🌲Or the woman who was a rowing “recorder”? ▶Or how the best player on the field was the “goal man”? 🎯And how one unfortunate person was a victim of “mobbing” in the workplace? 👥 These are all actual examples […]
🟰 Words that look the same or similar in two languages but have two, at times radically, different meanings are called “false friends”. There are plenty of them in most languages, and particularly between Slovenian and the other Southern Slavic languages, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin and Serbian. 💁🏻 A particular false friend I love […]
How do you say in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin or Serbian this: “Up there, the mountains burn worse”? 👉 Gore gore gore gore. I’m not making this up 👌! This is a genuine sentence made up of four separate homonyms. And don’t bother checking it up on any machine translation tool or AI🖱 as it won’t […]
