Woodward  +  5348 Fri, 22 Aug 03 11:43 PM What sounds better? The evacuation of the bowels? Woodward Joined on Tue, Jun 24 2003 A New Zealander in Chile Senior Member 2,747 Don't let schooling interfere with your education. www.grammar.cl - www.vocabulary.cl

	hitchhiker  +  5398 Sat, 23 Aug 03 06:37 PM erm.. thanks? hitchhiker Joined on Mon, Nov 18 2002 Richmond, UK Senior Member 4,034 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement...

	maj  +  5403 Sat, 23 Aug 03 07:01 PM It's a false friend Hitch. In Spanish if you have a cold you say " Estoy constipado" . So sometimes students try to translate it in English and the outcome is ... a really funny situation. maj

	Pemmican  +  5450 Sun, 24 Aug 03 02:37 AM Another interesting false friend is the German word "Gift" which means poison. Does anyone still want to have something cute from a gift shop? *lol* Pemmican Joined on Thu, Aug 21 2003 Regular Member 569 Wâ mag ich mich nu vinden? wâ mac ich mich nu suochen, wâ? nu bin ich hie und bin ouch dâ und enbin doch weder dâ noch hie. wer wart ouch sus verirret ie? wer wart ie sus...

	Woodward  +  5468 Sun, 24 Aug 03 05:47 AM Another false friend is 'embarazada' which is Spanish for Pregnant. It can easily be mistaken for 'embarrassed'. Imagine a guy trying to say he is embarrassed when in fact he is saying he is pregnant. Maj, in Chile they say 'Estoy resfriado' when they have a cold. Maybe that is the reason they say it differently here. Woodward