My great aunt Edith keeps this list of her favorite words tacked on the refrigerator:
Atlas
Chance
Detail
Frost
Hand
Magnet
Orange
Ring
Sand
Tiger
Winter
Wolf
My great uncle Mark has this list of his favorites:
Angel
Art
Bad
Boot
Gift
Hall
Kind
Mutter
Rat
Stern
Which one of them would like the word Listen?
Answer
Your
great uncle Mark
likes the word "Listen". Here's why:
All words can be English or German words. The words in Aunt Edith's list have the same meaning in German and in English. (Or there is at least one common meaning. "Ring" in German means a round band of metal, but not a call on the phone.) The words in Uncle Mark's list have a different meaning in English and German. "Gift", for example, means poison. And "Listen" means lists and has nothing to do with hearing.
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