Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site panda.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ucbvax!decvax!genrad!panda!mlf From: mlf@panda.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: False Cognates Message-ID: <627@panda.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 09:50:40 EDT Article-I.D.: panda.627 Posted: Thu Jul 11 09:50:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 12:27:54 EDT Reply-To: mlf@panda.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum) Distribution: net Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 10 >How about the word gift, which in German means poison. Even better, in Swedish, "gift" as a noun means "poison," as an adjective, "married." -- Matt Fichtenbaum "When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws."