• @buycurious
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    2 months ago

    TIL a lot of phrases used in English are calques, like “long time, no see.”

    Thanks for sharing!

  • @RegalPotoo
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    32 months ago

    As pointed out in a Tom Scott video, “claque” itself is a loan word, but “loan word” is a claque