[Ads-l] OT: "... bate el r=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A9cord_?=mundial ..."

[Wilson Gray]

Looks like a total calque on English, "beats the world record," with
"record" being a total loan from English "record."

Posted to Facebook in Spanish by a Catalan. Or should that be, "by a
Catalonian"? :-(

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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-Mark Twain

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