{"id":1169,"date":"2012-03-01T17:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2012-03-01T17:39:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:39:14","slug":"fat-et-faux-amisfalse-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"‘Fat’ et ‘faux amis\/false friends’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was tickled this morning to read that the French\u00a0translation for ‘priggish’ is (pharisa\u00efque, suffisant) fat : ”fat’ : a \u00a0‘false friend’ that would be gras(se) in French. But the best bit was that after ‘fat’ my Collins-Robert dictionary had added (m only) e.g. masculine only. Mmmm… If you don’t believe me look it up on page 1696.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, I don’t remember ever reading ‘fate’ to describe a priggish woman. French ‘fate’ would be another ‘false friend’ translating as ‘le sort’. In turn ‘the sort’ translates broadly as ‘le genre’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was tickled this morning to read that the French\u00a0translation for ‘priggish’ is (pharisa\u00efque, suffisant) fat : ”fat’ : a \u00a0‘false friend’ that would be gras(se) in French. But the best bit was that after ‘fat’ my Collins-Robert dictionary had … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-iR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}