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You know this language that we speak
Is part German, Latin and part Greek
Celtic and Arabic all in a heap,
Well amended by the people in the street
Choctaw gave us the word "okay";
"Vamose" is a word from Mexico way. And all of this is a hint I suspect of what comes next.
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Pete Seeger
song All Mixed Up
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. OK is frequently used as a loanword in other languages. It has been described as the most frequently spoken or written word on the planet.[1]
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In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, "to calque" means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new lexeme in the target language...
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This is what linguists call a calque.
For instance, “bajar del carro” becomes “get down from the car” — not “get out of the car” like in most American English dialects.
New Language Dialect Evolving In The US
A unique Spanglish cocktail has been emerging in Miami over recent decades.
Tom Hale
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Notes: welp, just to make a word up, or borrow one literally from another language...if it translates sense, it's okay...OK...k...
Aloha,
:)
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