What Is a Calque in Translation & Linguistics?
If you work with multilingual content, you’ve met the calque in translation—even if you didn’t know its name. A calque in translation (sometimes called a “loan translation”) is a word-for-word rendering that copies the structure of a foreign phrase into the target language. Think of everyday expressions like “beer garden” or “Adam’s apple”; each began […]
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