Talk:afera

Actually they're not completely false friends, afera also "affair" in a sense "adulterous relationship". --Ivan Štambuk 18:05, 18 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Ummm, using "afera" for "adulterous relationship" seems like a sloppy translation from English. It's pretty rare, I think, and doesn't pass what you may call 'ear-jarring test'. It may enter some sort of "colloquial sub-standard" in a few years by repetition, but I don't think it's there yet. --Elephantus 15:46, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It's used in that sense very often, even colloquially (I sincerely doubt that you haven't heard of it in that usage, in constructs such as afera sa sus(j)edom and similar.). It's prob. introduced as a semantic borrowing from English, but is today common and can be verified with enough attestations to pass our CFI. --Ivan Štambuk 16:50, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Googled it up. No matches. As I said, I've only heard (read) it in poorly translated English texts. --Elephantus 16:54, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we've been using different Google - mine gives the first 4 results in that exact sense, two of which are Internet fora (thus reflecting colloquial usage). --Ivan Štambuk 19:05, 19 August 2009 (UTC)