Re: Überraschungseifiguren De>En

Lee Sau Dan wrote:

>
> BTW, I once, upon hearing on TV, thought that "Eifersucht" was
> "ei-versucht", and wondered why the TV programme and the scene have
> anything to do with attempts with eggs. :P
>
> Not to mention the confusion between "Ei", "Eis" and "Eisen" at the
> very beginning of vocabulary acquisition, even though these are
> cognates with English.
>
>
> And I have misinterpreted "beinhalten" as "bein-halten" instead of
> "be-inhalten" for many many times. Again, if only they marked the
> glottal stop and/or the morpheme boundary! :(
>
>
What always gets me is kreieren. Every time I run across it, I
interpret it as krei-ern and can't think what it could mean---until I
realize that I did it again.

Gary

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