Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 8 hours agoIn a nutshell, words that look the same / similar but with different meanings in their respective languages, making it pretty confusing.
treadful@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Like homonyms or something different?
Lemmert@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
False friends usually aren’t homonyms since the word comes from different languages.
To give an example: an English speaker might look at “rare auto” (Dutch) and might translate it to “rare car”. But “rare” means “weird” in Dutch. So rare is a false friend in this case