Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Mimetism

👉 Mimetism is a concept in linguistics that describes how speakers of one language, such as English or German, express themselves in another language using words and grammatical structures that are not distinct from their own. Mimetism occurs when speakers of different languages use words and phrases that have been borrowed from each other's languages without changing the meaning or context. For example, if a speaker of English says "I'm sorry," they may say "I'm sorry for" in German, which is

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