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- verb Present participle of
calque . - noun
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Examples
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Spells of Germanic chauvinism have left us with unseemly agglutinations like boldriehoeksmeting ` ball three-corner measuring, 'i.e. spherical trigonometry, and uncritical calquing made us adopt a few misnomers holus-bolus: buik-spreker
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But it is only in the mass that one can feel the depth of this unconscious calquing.
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"And yet, as though to punish me now for calquing my own images over these sidewalks long ago, Via Clelia was giving them all back—but not a thing more."
Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere by André Aciman, p 30 of the FSG hardcover
July 18, 2012