#calques

[antimomophobic]

calque being a loanword and loanword being a calque is something that just has to be mentioned more

[lours-se-remet-a-la-colle]

collage 18

[brightfametexan]

Loan words and calques

[thunderboltfire]

I spent definitely too much time pondering over unfortunate double meaning of the consume option on soap XD (wersja PL)

[dracofeb]

Calque & Loanword

Found this. Kind of want to share.

[themangacarta]

I lived in New Mexico and you hear these same calques: "get down from the car" from "bajarse de carro", "married with" from "casarse con," though New Mexican English still has important differences.

My favorite part of the South Florida English dialect isn't a calque, it's if you ask someone what they're up to and - if they're not really up to anything - they'll say "y'know I'm just eating shit."

[yvanspijk]

The Proto-Germanic word *gahlaibōn, 'someone you share your bread with', was borrowed into Latin in a special way: its parts were translated individually. This is called a loan translation or a calque. The result was compāniō. This word became copain and compagnon in French and then companion in English. Here's more.

[sansypenser]

Plein cadre stylo feutre fin et collage sur papier calque A4

[saltingthecookingwine]

Linguistics is fun!

I love the term “loanwords” because it implies that you intend to give them back.

[cashmere-caveman]

sens better be kissing the ground that ullys shadow falls upon this intermission bc without him we would Not be in the lead

[ahopefulbromantic]

"What's on your liver" what the heck does that mean T-T

Oh y'know, just hi, hello, what's on your liver? ☺️☺️☺️ A common greeting!

[chlcavalier]

[martinshep]

favorite word?

Very hard to choose just one but I do often use “quadcopter” as an example of the broad category of words I like where loan words get mixed up weirdly, so probably that.

The ‘c’ in the middle of the word isn’t really supposed to be there because the word “helicopter” doesn’t come from “heli-” and “-copter” but rather “helic-” and “-opter”. The reverse happened with “helipad”.

[datura21]

Avec Anaïs il y a quelques années de cela, nous avions chopé le dernier rayon de soleil de la journée, une lumière rosée magnifique.

[finelythreadedsky]

on the heels of my realization that nathaniel and theodore are the same name, anybody got any guesses about what 'aristobulus' might calque from hebrew into greek? 'best-plan'?

[bijoumikhawal]

Coptic lesbians (inspired by @felrija's work)