So says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque .
It's like a more obscure version of the old observation about driving in parkways and parking in driveways.
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"Generally the plan was to get away from government and allow the natural virtue of man to assert itself. What more can you ask for as an explanation of failure?" —B. F. Skinner (as Frazier in Walden Two)
I like it. Thanks for sharing this with us, PMS.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir