JosephLalor Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 3 minutes ago, Graham Boak said: Story time. After the invasion of Southern France, RAF and French B-26 units were sharing an airfield. The French unit was posted home, to their great joy and a scrambling to get as many aircraft as possible serviceable. The British senior NCO reported indignantly to his officer: "these French are demanding spare parts, they can't do that can they!" Demander = to ask. They got their parts. Someone else will have to tell me what the French is for "to demand". One of the more notorious faux amis is 'preservatif'. It does not mean 'preservative', unless it could be considered to mean preserving the state of not being pregnant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VG 33 Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Graham Boak said: ah, but it is the "faux amis"/false friends that look the same but have different meanings that spoil things. However not many crop up in aviation texts. Story time. After the invasion of Southern France, RAF and French B-26 units were sharing an airfield. The French unit was posted home, to their great joy and a scrambling to get as many aircraft as possible serviceable. The British senior NCO reported indignantly to his officer: "these French are demanding spare parts, they can't do that can they!" Demander = to ask. They got their parts. Someone else will have to tell me what the French is for "to demand". From the book "Honni soit qui mal y pense" written by Henriette Walter : "... Of course, peoples have known in turn a Hundred Years War or a Cordial Entente, but languages, for their part, have constantly mixed their words to sometimes give birth to "false friends", or very often also to many "good friends": there are more than three thousand whose graphic form is perfectly identical in the two languages among which anecdote, caricature, garage, horizon, jaguar, moustache, silicone, structure, unique ..." Patrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2996 Victor Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 A superb model of a fascinatingly obscure subject! Thanks for sharing. Kind regards, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnticlockwisePropeller Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Excellent work, Heather! Another beautiful addition to your collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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