Claque vs Calque - What's the difference?
claque | calque |
A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.
A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus.
A group of fawning admirers.
A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
:: The word "watershed" is a calque of the German "Wasserscheide".
To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.