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Mind the language gap

David Attenborough

For translators and other students of language, false friends are pairs of words from different languages that closely resemble each other in form but not in meaning: in Italian, stravagante means eccentric, but looks like it should mean extravagant; bellen is the act of barking in German, but phoning someone in Dutch; in Portugal, raro means rare, but in Spain it means strange. Other examples abound, providing lots of room for confusion between speakers of the 23 official languages of the

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