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Questions about pairs of words which appear to be similar in different languages, but actually mean different things. Not to be confused with "false cognate". // Preguntas sobre palabras que parecen similares en idiomas diferentes, pero en realidad significan cosas distintas. No confundir con "falso cognado".
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"True" meaning of "por cierto"
As you can see at the RAE, "por cierto" has both meanings of "certainly" and "by the way".
I didn't know this until I had a look at it. Here in Spain we only use it as "by the way". So it seems that …
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