A Nasty False Cognate
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 by Mark [+/-] show/hide this excerptTo Chinese people, maybe this sign looks normal. But, as a former Japanese student, I found this sign very amusing.
手紙- a false cognateHosted on Zooomr
In every language I know of that has borrowed from the Chinese writing system, 手 means hand and 紙 means paper. Many many words made out of multiple characters [...]