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5 Sep 2024 05:22:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: When words and phrases change their meaning  
From: clipka
Date: 19 Sep 2009 06:57:11
Message: <4ab4b907$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New schrieb:
> 
> My wife grew up in China, so she's always stumbling across funky things 
> English does wrong. I love this stuff. :-)

How about "oversee" and "overlook", for instance?

But German happens to be even worse at these, with "übersehen" 
potentially being used in either sense.


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