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Is there a name for the number of degrees of contrast in coordinating conjunction a language has? Eg, English has "and" and "but", but some Slavic languages have an intermediate, mild-contrast one.
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Is there a name for the process by which a loanword (or calque) sheds some of its source language meanings? Like "atom" not also meaning "individual" in languages that borrowed it from Greek, or "café" in English only meaning the establishment serving food and drinks and not also coffee as it does in French?

Same question for words borrowed with a meaning absent from the source language, like "femme" referring to gender expression in English but gender in French?
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Spam language correctly identified as Estonian despite not knowing it or Finnish. (Either that, or Google Translate and I both misidentified it the same way.)
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Can someone more fluent in Russian than me confirm that some of the text in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_typology#/media/File:Beriyn_Poliklinika,_S%C3%B6l%C6%B6a-%C4%A0ala.jpg (specifically, below the caduceus and above the last line) is actually Russian, not Chechen? I want to add an alt= and correct the caption if needed.
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There are (that I'm aware of) two languages or major language dialects in which football isn't called "football" or a phonetic rendering.

One is el_GR, which uses the calque ποδοσφέρί.

The other is en_US, which uses "soccer", but https://www.etymonline.com/word/soccer#etymonline_v_23809 hints this meaning originated in the UK. I'm not sure (if that's right) when and how it was displaced by "football" everywhere but the US (and maybe Canada).
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Is it still an acceptable/accepted minced expletive, or is it (because of the implied reference to the activity) now considered too racist to use?
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Do you know about it? If you do, how and when did you find out?

Do you use it? Why or why not?
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