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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Falsche Freunde
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In article <32de7ff0.4052186@news.exodus.net>,
Bill Vaughan <bill@osisoft.com> wrote:

>Same kind of stuff applies in French. 
>
>I had just returned to the States from a year in Brussels, and one day
>I was walking through the local mall with my wife.  My mind was
>somewhere else -- programming problem, I suppose -- and I found myself
>looking in a store window wondering why everything was dirty.  Well,
>that jarred me back to reality and I realized I had been looking at
>signs that said, simply, "SALE."

I've heard an oft-repeated (and probably aprocryphal) anecdote about a
Spanish-speaker who hands a cashier a bill and asks for change, then gets
a nasty shock when the cashier punches up "NO SALE" on the old-fashioned
cash register.

("No sale" is Spanish for "It's not coming out".)

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