This in turn can be demonstrated by two expected inequalities: false friends are not closer than real translations but false friends are significantly more similar than (matching) uncorrelated words.
given an L1 word w 1 , and its real L2 translation w 2 and the false friend w 2ff in crosslingual space, we expect the similarity score between the pair (w 1 , w 2 ) not to be lower than the similarity score between the pair (w 1 , w 2ff ).