{"id":1463,"date":"2011-10-14T08:14:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T07:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2011-10-14T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T07:14:22","slug":"false-friends-galore-business-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/false-friends-galore-business-english\/","title":{"rendered":"False Friends Galore &#8211; Business English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In dem folgenden Text ensprechen die Fett gedruckten W\u00f6rter englischen Vokablen, die ihren deutschen Synonymen aussprachem\u00e4\u00dfig zwar \u00e4hneln, aber eine vollkommen andere Bedeutung haben:<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Johnny was <strong>firing <\/strong>his 10th anniversary at Swindlers Insurance Inc. He started there in 1986 and became one of the most successful sales representatives in the <strong>branch<\/strong>.\u00a0 He first had been working for Fraudster Ltd., a <strong>daughter<\/strong> of Swindlers Inc., and worked his way up to being one of the top dogs in the firm. He is always very <strong>engaged<\/strong>. He is not satisfied by only handing the customer a <strong>prospect<\/strong>, but he is real go-getter, who doesn\u00b4t give up till he has the contract home and dry (in trockenen T\u00fcchern). He often has<strong> genial<\/strong> ideas. He has a <strong>funded<\/strong> knowledge about the business and now lives in a <strong>noble <\/strong>house in London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>a.)<\/strong> celebrating\u00a0 <strong>b.)<\/strong> industry, business <strong>c)<\/strong> subsidiary <strong>d.)<\/strong> committed <strong>e.)<\/strong> brochure <strong>f.)<\/strong> brilliant <strong>g)<\/strong> sound <strong>h.)<\/strong> luxury<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In dem folgenden Text ensprechen die Fett gedruckten W\u00f6rter englischen Vokablen, die ihren deutschen Synonymen aussprachem\u00e4\u00dfig zwar \u00e4hneln, aber eine vollkommen andere Bedeutung haben: Yesterday Johnny was firing his 10th anniversary at Swindlers Insurance Inc. He started there in 1986 and became one of the most successful sales representatives in the branch.\u00a0 He first had [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-english-muenchen","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}