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From: mlf@panda.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: False Cognates
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 09:50:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 09:50:40 1985
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>How about the word gift, which in German means poison.

Even better, in Swedish, "gift" as a noun means "poison," as
an adjective, "married."

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					Matt Fichtenbaum
					"When marriage is outlawed,
					only outlaws will have inlaws."