Compiled lists of Polish-English deceptive word pairs extracted from popular monolingual and bilingual dictionaries¶

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Description¶

The article's core artifact is a representative selection of deceptive pairs organized by relation type: full-contrast pairs (e.g. E lecture : P lektura 'reading-list'), overlapping pairs (E platform : P platforma), and partial-correlation pairs. The lists were "extracted from recent editions of popular English and Polish dictionaries, monolingual and bilingual", with a more comprehensive presentation attempted only for the contrast class.

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Context¶

Requirements¶

• Derived from recent editions of popular English and Polish dictionaries, monolingual and bilingual

Constraints¶

• The words listed are only a representative selection; comprehensiveness is attempted only for class (iv), contrast

Target Learners¶

• Advanced learners of English who are native speakers of Polish
• Translators working between Polish and English

Target Learning Goals¶

• Recognizing and avoiding deceptive cognates in translation and vocabulary use

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Key Sources¶

• Welna, Jerzy. (1976). Deceptive Words: A Study in the Contrastive Lexicon of Polish and English. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED127783