purplemontartpurplemontart@beepboop.one
Feb 12, 2024, 4:31 PMOther examples of calques in English are "it goes without saying" from French "ça va sans dire" and "long time no see" from Chinese "好久不見" (hǎojiǔ bùjiàn)
Even "Wednesday" is ultimately a calque from Latin "Mercurii dies", Mercury being interpreted by Germanic tribes as being Odin, thus Wodanesdag