Definition of "calques" []

• Plural form of calque. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "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."