quips, URLs and resources for teaching & learning five fields of anthropology: physical, cultural, linguistic, archeological, applied.
2007-09-14
"borrowing" words (loan translations; calques)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque gives words now used in English that are "borrowed" from other languages, as well as the other way around: English words that have gone over to other languages.
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