{"id":597,"date":"2007-09-27T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T12:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=597"},"modified":"2011-10-29T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:56:07","slug":"faux_amies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/09\/faux_amies.html","title":{"rendered":"<I>Faux-Amies<\/I>*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always amusing in French class to watch the &#8220;I know too much to look up these words&#8221; people get tripped up by what we call *&#8221;false cognates&#8221; en anglais.  I&#8217;m hoping for such tonight as one of our vocab words is <em>d\u00e9cevant<\/em>.  Deceiving?  No.  <u>Disappointing<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>I, as you must have known, am an anal-looker-upper.  Even when I know that I already know the word in question.  I&#8217;m always checking to make sure there isn&#8217;t also an idiomatic definition I don&#8217;t know about.  I waste a lot of time that way.  But time&#8230;well, that&#8217;s in surfeit over here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always amusing in French class to watch the &#8220;I know too much to look up these words&#8221; people get tripped up by what we call *&#8221;false cognates&#8221; en anglais. I&#8217;m hoping for such tonight as one of our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/09\/faux_amies.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}