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Quebec French is also known for shifting the meanings of some words toward those of their English cognates, but such words are considered false friends in European French. For example, éventuellement is commonly used as "eventually" in Quebec but means "perhaps" in Europe.
However, their purpose was rarely for fraudulent gain. They are listed in the List of wartime cross-dressers. Spies have often pretended to be people other than they were. One famous case was that of Chevalier d'Eon (1728–1810), a French diplomat who successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman.
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.
Boumeddiene is a French woman currently being sought by French police as a suspected accomplice of her common law husband Amedy Coulibaly, who killed one police officer in the Montrouge shooting of 8 January 2015, and four people he had taken hostage in the Porte de Vincennes siege of 9 January, in which he was killed by police.
Published a false story claiming actor Denzel Washington endorsed Donald Trump for U.S. president. The fictional headline led to thousands of people sharing it on Facebook , a prominent example of fake news spreading on the social network prior to the 2016 presidential election.
False friend warning: this is *not* the same as the English term "competent" in the sense of legally of sound mind, which in French is rendered by § capacité juridique. [62] complice accomplice [33] [68] [69] complicité correspective analysis in which the § coauteur (joint principal) is also ispo facto an accomplice [33] complot
Drolly unpicking the sexual and emotional entanglements of three Lyon gal pals hovering around 40 — two married, one single, none fulfilled — Mouret’s film won’t strike anyone as fresh ...
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. [3] [5]