"Never accept a Gift from a German because it's poison!" This saying is an easy way to remember that German Gift and English gift are "false friends," in that they are similar in form but not in meaning. This is an example of __________.

a. cross-language priming
b. interlingual homographs
c. mutual intelligibility
d. translation equivalents

Answer: b. interlingual homographs

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