#calques

[antimomophobic]

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

[brightfametexan]

Loan words and calques

[dracofeb]

Calque & Loanword

Found this. Kind of want to share.

[maluron]

inspired by my need to play with star trek barbies

have you considered this alternate Garak is a surgeon not a tailor but he still exsudes Fabulous Bitch vibes do you think he hacked into his holo hubby's programming to vary his outfits

(damnit Garak stop messing with my outer photons I'm a doctor not a fashion model --but darling I know you love it when I "mess with your photons")

[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."

[chaotpayaso]

i was told to draw toshiki falling off a horse

[communist-ojou-sama]

it's moments like these where I really feel my own perspective widening

[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.

[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.

[datura21]

Avec Geraldine… suite de l’histoire

[bijoumikhawal]

for Coptic learners out there, I found a 500+ page phrase book while trying to find idioms! Very useful and something I definitely want to keep on hand. The only thing I'll say is I'm not sure where they sourced the large color vocab from

[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!

[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”.

[creatureprofessor]

i love stirring the big pot of melted snow based stew that is my "Inspired by The Terror (2018) but they're all women which does not make them any better, and they are in a fantasy universe I made up ages ago and just slapped them in there, with skyships and 4 unique factions of skyship navigators, where the majority is still going to die horribly but now there are spatial anomalies and saints who basically possess peope and a short woman with a knife a bad dye job and too much confidence who you definitely should not worry about AU", aka. Skyship Navigators AU for short, in my head. someday, you'll actually see snippets of it, beamed from my mind semi-directly onto watercolour paper.

[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'?