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Calque →
bestofwikipedia:
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: “verbum pro verbo”) or root-for-root translation. For example, the common English phrase “flea market” is a phrase calque that literally translates the French “marché aux puces” (“market where one acquires fleas”) (via Larson)
“Americans are kinetic people, whose attitudes toward life are often rooted in a...”
– No Silence, Please, We’re American (via azspot)
Things we like: open-ended games
canvas:
Isle of Tune is a visual music sequencer where you arrange little streets, cars, and roadside elements to make loops and songs.
Falling Sand Game is a place to play with streams of particles, directing them in experimental ways to make patterns and piles (and then exploding them).
rpig:
xmas soon
