False Friends in German/English

Be careful - it's a gift! (English/German)

One year when my German teacher, Herr McCarley, was living in Germany, he once opened the door to a very nervous looking postman. The postman very slowly and carefully handed Herrn McCarley a package. His parents had sent him a Christmas present and did not want him to open it early, so they wrote "gift" many times on all sides of the package. What they did not know was that Gift is German for "poison". The postman very shakily said, Vorsicht ... Gift, careful ... poison, and left as soon as he could.

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>>2
^* African American

>>3
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>>4
I think you meant to say ^* African American

>>5
No I meant * Porch Monkey

>>6
^* African American

>>7
* Nigger

>>8
^* African American

>>9
* African-American

>>10
I said African American!

And so yet another interesting-looking thread dies at the hands of morons.

>>1
So the moral of the story is that the German post will deliver poison?

what nazi bastards

>>11
You forgot the dash

Germanfag here, I remember my highschool time, there was a poster about false friends on the wall, reading "he has some pickles on his face".

The German word "Pickel" translates as "pimple", while "pickle" means "Gurke" in German.

>>15
It doesn't need one.