Language faults explained by false analogies
Faux amis : interferences between meanings or spellings of words in other languages or in the same language
Language errors are often based on false analogies.
I have to admit that even when the English term in derived from the French one through the means of Anglo-Norman, the English word doesn't have the same double consonant...
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tendency (EN) - tendance (FR) - tendens (NL)
Posted by Pieter Jansegers on March 12th, 2008 at 3:02pm —
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Judgmental or judgemental
The idea of this social network did come out of the debate of me and a friend about the right spelling of the word judg(e)mental and whether either are the right British spelling for it...
I then mentionned the idea of putting up a site about these language discussions and she said she would join it immediately if I did do so...
So here it is... let's discuss the language problems and topics over here !
Posted by Pieter Jansegers on August 17th, 2007 at 6:10pm —
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judgmental or judgemental
Started by Pieter Jansegers Aug. 17, 2007.
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