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A screenshot from Wikipedia, with the text, “The word loanword is a calque of the German noun Lehnwort. In contrast, the term calque is a loanword, from the French noun calque ("tracing, imitation, close copy").”
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Deb Chachra (debcha@saturation.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Feb-2026 08:46:34 JST Deb Chachra

A demonstration of how English scrobbles up words from other languages, in two sentences.
[from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque ]

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