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An interesting illustration of semantic specificity and cultural dominance

March 6, 2012 //  by Álvaro Degives-Más//  Leave a Comment

It’s not so much unusual for neologisms that are adopted from another language to have a very concrete meaning, which is far more specific than the word as used in the original language. A more or less random example is the term factoring as used in business Dutch, with that very particular meaning explained in …

Category: LinguisticsTag: language, meaning, semantics, sombrero, specificity

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