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- noun Plural form of
calque .
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Examples
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Civil service Kazakh, Kirghiz, and Ukrainian are all riddled with Russian calques.
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Anyway, yeah, there are enough other things that actually create practical difficulties in the EU that putting money towards making an Irish riddled with English calques a working language is just not worth doing.
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I believe modern Hebrew also has a large number of calques from German/Yiddish but it has still managed to become a real living language.
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People like me speak a close approximation of traditional Gaeltacht Irish and there are people who speak new urban calques, heavily influenced by English in every way.
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Modern, civil service Irish is riddled with calques from English, and it's modern, civil service Irish that would will? be used in Brussels.
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If you're worried about the cost of translating, calques are a godsend because you don't have to think when translating a bureacratic formula from one tongue to another.
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Je recherche une façon de ne pas imprimer certains calques dans mes différentes mises en page.
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Couldn't Mr. Cohen have used the simple word, copies, rather than calques?
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Some of these were calques, or loan-translations, arrived at consciously by analogical agglutination.
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Indeed, many of the quoted instances are mere German loan words, facile calques of calques.
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