¿Qué os parece...?

ES suburbio

vs.

EN suburb

I personally would welcome it if this English/Spanish dictionary got going.

And it is a good idea to start with false friends, so thanks to Lisa for providing impetus.

However, it is not a good idea to have threads (#0, #3) which assume knowledge of German, especially as this is the second thread in the whole list.

It's just going to put the target group (i.e. Spanish and English speakers who don't speak German) off. Most people are not multi-lingual, and the multilingual ones can look after themselves. (For example: I came onto this thread because I couldn't think of the English word for the Spanish "gentilicio", which isn't in this dictionary but I was able to find via ES-DE and DE-EN. It's "demonym", a word I have never heard before.)

So I suggest, with due respect for the commitment (another common false friend) of participants so far, that we delete this thread and reload it without any German terms.

I'm so sure of that, Isabell. Although your argument sounds logic, especially in the early stages of this forum we have to be practical. And that means that our active users must feel free and comfortable to express themselves in this site. It is normal and a fact that most (if not every) every user so far is a German speaker too, and that shouldn't be overlooked in order to build up a community in here. Of course, we don't have to make abuse oft that, but I think that new people without German-knowledge won't feel bothered by occasional references to this language here and there.

Acutally this sort of anarquism, balanced by the high-level education and self control of the users on Leo is in my opionion the very charcter which make this forums unique in the whole internet. And that should stay so. The existence of a Spanish-English forum here is therefore a bless for me. I suffered namely over all these years under the severe rules of Wordreference.

Más falsos amigos inglés-español (estoy recopilando una lista para mis alumnos)

to be constipated - estar estreñido

estar constipado - to have a cold

it's terrific - es genial

es terrorífico - it's terrifying

he's a conductor -- es director de orquesta

él es conductor - he's a driver

he's a bigot - es un intolerante

bigote - moustache

college - universidad

colegio - school