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Alan Smithee, name used by film directors who wish to disown a project. Andreas Karavis, nonexistent Greek poet. Araki Yasusada, fake Hiroshima survivor and author; B. Traven, adventure novelist. Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakhstani journalist created by Sacha Baron Cohen, see also Ali G and Brüno Gehard.
False friends (or faux amis) are pairs of words in two languages or dialects (or letters in two alphabets) that look and/or sound similar, but differ in meaning. False cognates , by contrast, are similar words in different languages that appear to have a common historical linguistic origin (regardless of meaning) but actually do not.
The term was introduced by a French book, Les faux amis: ou, Les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais (False friends, or, the betrayals of English vocabulary), published in 1928. As well as producing completely false friends, the use of loanwords often results in the use of a word in a restricted context , which may then develop new meanings not ...
Pseudo-anglicisms can be created in various ways, such as by archaism, i.e., words that once had that meaning in English but are since abandoned; semantic slide, where an English word is used incorrectly to mean something else; conversion of existing words from one part of speech to another; or recombinations by reshuffling English units.
Frédéric Pierre Bourdin [1] (born 13 June 1974) [2] is a French serial impostor the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon". [3] He began his impersonations as a child and claims to have assumed at least 500 false identities; [ 4 ] three being teenage missing people .
Some Latin legal writers used the name Numerius Negidius as a John Doe placeholder name; this name was chosen in part because it shares its initials with the Latin phrases (often abbreviated in manuscripts to NN) nomen nescio, "I don't know the name"; nomen nominandum, "name to be named" (used when the name of an appointee was as yet unknown ...
Pages in category "Fictional French people" The following 157 pages are in this category, out of 157 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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