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False friends: Phagocytes as Trojan horses in microbial brain infections. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Pathogens, 2017
Felipe H Santiago-Tirado   +1 more
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Analysis of English-Spanish False Friends

open access: yesVerbum, 2022
The present study aims to carry out an analysis of English-Spanish false friends in order to establish the most prevailing type of false friends and to determine their degree of falseness and semantic resemblance.
Lina Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė   +1 more
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False Friends in Interpreting: the case of English, French and Latvian

open access: yesBaltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2023
False friends are the result of language interference on a lexical level. They have been studied in various language combinations and from various aspects, often resulting in different classifications and subtypes. The paper highlights the issues related
Evelīna Ķiršakmene
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FALSOS AMIGOS EN RUMANO Y ESPAÑOL EN TITULARES DE LA PRENSA RUMANA EN LÍNEA DE ESPAÑA

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2021
False Friends between Romanian and Spanish in the Headlines of the Online Romanian Journals in Spain. As they are historically related languages, Romanian and Spanish share more than two hundred false friends (for example: amar ≠ amar, but amargo ...
Sanda-Valeria MORARU
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Anglicisms and loanwords: The contribution of English exemplified by contemporary Italian tourist terminology [PDF]

open access: yesTraining, Language and Culture, 2020
The English language has enriched Italian with numerous words and expressions that complement existing Italian lexis. Many linguists perceive the extent of English influence as a potentially overwhelming and dangerous tendency. However, the percentage of
Alla G. Sokolova
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False Friends in Terminology: Croatian Lost in Translation

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2020
Every terminology system strives to be as systematic as possible and able to eliminate system errors. In the context of error identification, it is more than obvious that linguistic errors, apart from other system errors, occur quite frequently.
Kristian Lewis
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False Perceptions in Remote Negotiations Influenced by False Friends. A Negotiating Experiment Using Common European-English False Friends [PDF]

open access: yesSEA: Practical Application of Science
Communication in English can generate disproportionate reactions in relation to the real context of the situations, if the messages are not correctly understood, for reasons related to the good knowledge of this language.
Gabriel-Cristian CONSTANTINESCU
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ANNA: A Dictionary with a Name (and what Lies Behind it)

open access: yesLexikos, 2021
In 2011 the Groot Woordenboek Afrikaans en Nederlands (Large Dictionary Afrikaans and Dutch), commonly known as ANNA, appeared. Contrary to so-called difference dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries of narrowly related languages which describe only ...
W. Martin
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TYPES OF INTERLINGUISTIC HOMONYMY: A REVIEW OF STANDPOINTS [PDF]

open access: yesRespectus Philologicus, 2013
This paper reviews the more important standpoints concerning interlinguistic homonymy in a broad sense. It is a comparison of various opinions published during the last 50 years by researchers from the former USSR, Slovakia, Poland, and Western Europe ...
Radosław Kaleta
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ABOUT DIDACTIC BOUNDARIES OF SPANISH-PORTUGUESE FALSE FRIENDS

open access: yesDiacrítica, 2019
The so-called false friends are a very frequent question in the works on the relationship between Portuguese and Spanish language. The possible approaches change according to the interests and the focus: lexicography, lexicography, semantics ...
Xurxo Fernández Carballido
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