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Calque you lay shun

10.04.00 | No Comments

Apparently there is a name for translating songs word-for-word: Calque. And here’s me thinking it was just bad translation. Just goes to show, eh? Anyway, Joe has been doing French calques for sixteen years (my favourite is “C’est l’oeil du tigre. C’est la crime du combat, se levant jusqu’au defi de notre rival…”), so he should know.