Sort of like French - "hot dog" is "le hot-dog", "tee shirt" is "le tee-shirt"...
...but then there's false cognates - where it sounds like a word in English but means something else. Like "attendre"? "To attend", right? WRONG IT MEANS "TO WAIT" aaaagh I hate French. DX
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Date: 2009-06-11 10:55 pm (UTC)...but then there's false cognates - where it sounds like a word in English but means something else. Like "attendre"? "To attend", right? WRONG IT MEANS "TO WAIT" aaaagh I hate French. DX