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  2. False friend - Wikipedia

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    An example of false friends in German and English. In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning.

  3. False cognate - Wikipedia

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    The term "false cognate" is sometimes misused to refer to false friends, but the two phenomena are distinct. [1] [2] False friends occur when two words in different languages or dialects look similar, but have different meanings. While some false friends are also false cognates, many are genuine cognates (see False friends § Causes). [2]

  4. Category:False friends - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    The following table lists websites that have allowed users to generate their own hoaxes that appear in the form of news articles. While the stated purpose is for users to prank their friends, many of the resulting false stories have spread on social media and have led to harassment. [282]

  6. Epstein ready to reward victim’s friends to prove Hawking ...

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    Paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein was ready to reward one of his victim’s friends if they could “prove her allegations false” – including that Professor Stephen Hawking participated in ...

  7. List of Chinese–Japanese false friends - Wikipedia

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    False friends present linguistic homographs and synonyms based on the culturally and societally bound languages. [ 2 ] Among the cultural effects are contresense, which occurs when a writer uses a false friend in a context whose meaning is the opposite of the original meaning as presented in the related language.

  8. Kim Porter's children address 'hurtful and false rumors ... - AOL

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    Porter’s friends Kimora Lee Simmons and Lawanda Lane told Rolling Stone they don’t know the author. Lane added that “every page in that book is false” and the “extremely private ...

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