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Natalie Jackalie :
I never have heard “balompié” till this day. Adding to my vocab list
2026-07-07 21:02:56
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Freska :
Also btw Calque is short for Calqueuelaytour
2026-07-07 16:37:34
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🔻Casper🕷️ :
"the goal"
2026-07-07 16:36:10
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⭐🇧🇴TB🏀⭐ :
same with basketball (basquetbol and baloncesto)
2026-07-07 22:15:10
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Momo of the Momo dynasty :
"the kicker"
2026-07-07 19:14:56
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jan Awa :
but the GOAL
2026-07-07 19:36:49
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ccottap :
And the same principle applies to other sport names in Spanish, such as baloncesto (basketball), balonmano (handball), and balonvolea (volleyball).
2026-07-07 19:58:16
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tehtarik :
off (sigh) duh
2026-07-07 16:43:11
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souper100 :
i love all the puns bro 🥹
2026-07-07 16:35:08
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Hailey🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ :
calc is short for calculator by the way
2026-07-07 21:03:56
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irenee :
the puns😭😭😭 i love you
2026-07-07 20:40:17
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⊬ Jøsh Dun's Foot Tickler Ψ :
Same as fact thing in Polish. "Piłka Nożna" literally means "Leg Ball".
2026-07-07 17:07:39
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Santi.b00 🇦🇷 :
"with the goal" "here's the kicker"
2026-07-09 02:27:05
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tona :
So why isn’t the word “balonpié”?
2026-07-08 04:38:18
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Diamond :
loanword is a calque and calque is a loanword this is why I love linguistics
2026-07-08 01:16:38
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Lucio Párraga :
Pie doesnt have a tilde (the line above it) cuz it's a monosyllabic word thst has no diacritical need to be diferentiated from another homograph that means something else
2026-07-07 22:22:25
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Gustavo Serrano :
Me as a native spanish speaker already knowing all of this
2026-07-08 04:33:11
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TheTaoEnthusiast [☯️ ☭] :
continue the puns pls
2026-07-07 16:37:13
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Rayne Michelle 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️ :
ok, but how do they say soccer in Spanish?
2026-07-08 03:17:22
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diamom :
calque is a loanword and loanword is a calque :)
2026-08-24 00:06:19
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zé bonietzschenho :
in portuguese, one of the suggested options for the name of sport was ludopedio, which means game of feet using very archaic latin vocabulary, but it never caught on; funny how it differs from the spanish strategy of using common words, which in portuguese would be bolapé
2026-07-08 02:11:49
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tomato :
Dónde se dice balompié?
2026-07-07 17:07:35
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Benjamín Núñez Reyer :
but why not ballon con pie
2026-07-07 20:19:40
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zaheer :
It's called soccer btw 🇿🇦
2026-07-10 12:35:22
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David 'Echu' Masana :
i have not once heard balompié since 1996 in Spain
2026-07-15 10:22:59
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