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Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Fun little tidbit: the word “loanword” itself is a sub-type of a loanword, a calque, which is a word-by-word translation from a word in a different language. It was brought to English from the German “Lehnwort”.

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