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Unparalleled Misalignments

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throw100 ◴[] No.43896202[source]
A related idea I've thought of is finding (comparatively) long words that have different definitions in different languages. E.g. "fetter" (English/German). In theory you only need a wordlist for each language, but in practice, most common words across languages also share definitions (e.g. "unintelligent" in English/German).
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1. edent ◴[] No.43896476[source]
These are called False Friends - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend