Just to kinda prove how similar some of the words and phrases are in japanese I have two phrases mentioned in the manga hellsing that are almost exactly the same but have two completely different meanings.
anime-ka means turned into anime and ani-meka means mecha big brother. Seriously just changeing where a dash is put changes the entire thing. Course this is just the romanized version of it in normal japanese it probably has completely different symbols. (as you can guess i know very little japanese and that is only in romanized text)