Quote Originally Posted by laxxy
using foreign words for how they sound or for what one *thinks* they mean is rather dangerous. Sometimes it simply results in fuzzy people and cuty bears (tm). Sometimes it results in this:
[total ignorance?]
Again, very wise words, laxxy.

As a language teacher I see these mistakes often... I have often made them myself, when I am studying another language... in English teaching we call many of these "false friends" (words that you 'think' mean one thing (they appear similar) but mean something different in the other language, and can create bad misunderstandings... and I've been in a few "serious" discussions over these mistakes.