 What's up guys, EvilDD and tonight we're gonna focus on false friends between English and Esperanto Esperanto and English depending on what way you're looking at it. Now some of these are quite obvious and I'm gonna start with the obvious ones and then I'm gonna work up to the mind fudge ones and then I'm gonna show you one that just completely messed with my head it like destroyed my whole concept of reality. Okay let's start with a nice easy one, shall we? So everyone who's probably encountered this one straight up one of the first words you ever learnt was fadati and obviously it means too fair as in like how are you doing type of thing. Now everyone when they first look at that they go that means a fart no it doesn't mean that and that was actually a real criticism of Esperanto way back at the beginning of it from English speakers they're like I don't want one of my most common words mean to fart because remember back then everyone was gentlemen and no one actually farted people didn't have bum holes back then but yeah anyway so fadati means too fair if you want to let one grip that is furusi okay furusi okay so here's where things start getting a little bit more interesting okay so this one messed with my head a while back when I was trying to write a short story in Esperanto the word that messed with my head was balanci because it does not mean to balance as you would think by just looking at it. Balanci actually means to rock or to swing and the best way to look at it is for instance the word for seesaw is balancilo okay balancilo so a tool for swinging or rocking this one took me a very long time to rack my head around and the word in question is controli it sounds like and it looks like to control does not mean that at all controli means to check on or to check okay if you want to control something it is generally a reggae or it could be a few other words depending on context but controli is the word for to check okay and it took me so long to wrap my head around this one because one mind was looking at that going no it means like a trial this is one I've seen use an error quite a bit by new learners of Esperanto and I'm not sure why or maybe it's just because the English word actually has two meanings now they want to say standard as in that standard or that's normal type of thing the word for standard in Esperanto is actually not a more but I've seen use quite a bit standard and the reason being is because standard translates into English as standard but it means the big banner type that you would see in a military processional going into war type of thing no with the Romans how they had their big banners type of thing standard is that there's a type of thing that we will carry to the sea not then but yeah so don't mix those two up this is one I will never forget because I think an Esperantist messed with me when I was learning Esperanto I like the word for adult which is plenty caress school okay and then one day I met an Esperantist and he said oh you can use the word adult adult is just the new word and it means adult okay I don't know if that's because he was still learning or if he was trying to mess with me but it worked it took me a little bit before I figured out that adult means adultery so adultery means to commit adultery so do not interchange those words I could go really bad here's one where English words entering into Esperanto have kind of messed things up a little bit so for instance when we're talking about sports and Esperanto there's generally two words that you can use pretty much for every sport there's an internally creative one which is a combination of different words and then there's usually the word that's been imported by English and that's the one that's kind of taken over just because it's so commonly used in other languages as well so for instance the word for football in Esperanto is futbalo so when people see that they go futbalo ah balo means ball that must be another word for ball okay and they do the same thing with futto balo means like a big fancy dress ball where everyone goes and they dance evil deer rocks and he's like whoop whoop whoop type of thing so yeah balo is a big fancy dress ball while pilko is the one you kick don't try and interchange those because if you try to kick a ball or things are gonna go bad here's one that messed with me when I was learning Esperanto and I was learning from a book I found out that the word for pencil was crayono okay and it didn't explain why it was crayono because I looked at that and I went that means crayon and then I saw a picture of a pencil and I go that's not a crayon and then obviously I had to learn that crayono means pencil and obviously then I thought what's the word for crayon then the word for crayon is pastello so remember that crayon is pastello you know crayons I don't know this is actually something I've discussed with other English speakers they get a bit confused depending on where they are and what a crayon is you know crayon's one of those things that you chew on in school well I did I don't know about you guys so yeah crayon is pastello pencil is crayono here's one that can cause a little bit of confusion for English speakers when they're translating the word dung okay they look at dung and they go well that looks like dungo no it's not that dungo means employment dungi is too higher okay so totally different concepts there you don't want to mess the English dung with the Esperanto employment yeah they don't unless you work for cleaning up shit then they could kind of work but no don't make that mistake here's one where another new learner of Esperanto when I was learning Esperanto messed with me again he told me that the word for forest was it's not forest or that is arbado for forest okay forest or is actually two words it is for which means away ester which means be so forest or means absence here is one that's going to completely blow your mind okay the word for novel in Esperanto is not novello okay novello is a short story the complete opposite of what a novel is in English so novello means short story so what's the word for novel then in Esperanto that is romano okay which almost sounds like a a romance novel or something like that so that's kind of a way of remembering it so remember romano means novel in English um and novello means short story in English here's one where I see used an error a lot and this is alineo and paragraph okay alineo means a paragraph paragraph means a section within a legal document that's a common mistake I see made quite a bit not like a show stopper or anything but just remember alineo is a paragraph paragraph is a section with an illegal document okay here's one you do not want to use in error okay the word for pitch is not pitch off pitch off is a vulgar word for the female organ down below the word for a pitch is pedisiko okay so remember pedisiko means pitch pitch off means not pitch here's one I see every now and then use an error and that's tuoletto tuoletto does not mean toilet the word for toilet as you all probably know is net seo or it is bane or depending on you know what you're trying to specify tuoletto is all the tools that a woman uses to get herself ready to you know do her hair her makeup all that type of stuff so you know kind of like a handbag pretty much okay so here's one that isn't quite a false friend but it's a false underlining concept friend I don't know if that even makes sense but let's look at it so I'm going to put two colors up on the screen put a pudder and viola now put a pudder translates into English as purple that does not look like purple to me maybe that's a cultural thing maybe that's an Australian thing I don't know maybe that's a language thing but apparently our idea of what purple is differentiates around the world and based on culture based on all sorts of things so obviously if you really need to specify that that's purple and you want to make sure you're talking about the correct color just look at these two here and pick the correct one okay viola and put a pudder because they don't look like what I imagine what viola and put a pudder would mean in Australian English now obviously this is not going to affect pretty much really anyone unless you're in one of those situations where he's like cut the put a pudder wire because if you cut the viola wire everyone's 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