Word I Oughta Know

I really oughta...if only because I've looked it up a number of times already, very recently. Aye yi yi.

Weltanschauung:

One of the most important concepts in cognitive philosophy and generative sciences is the German concept of ‘Weltanschauung’. This expression refers to the 'wide worldview' or 'wide world perception' of a people. The Weltanschauung of a people originates from the unique world experience of a people, which they experience over several millennia. The language of a people reflects the Weltanschauung of that people in the form of its syntactic structures and untranslatable connotations and its denotations.

Come to think of it, this term has already graced these pages, not too long ago. Wow. I've got a memory that would make the Fifth irrelevant.

Of course, that above definition or explanation demands another, since in a line it employed another term I wasn't familiar with...

Calque:

One of the most important concepts in cognitive philosophy and generative sciences is the German concept of ‘Weltanschauung’. This expression refers to the 'wide worldview' or 'wide world perception' of a people. The Weltanschauung of a people originates from the unique world experience of a people, which they experience over several millennia. The language of a people reflects the Weltanschauung of that people in the form of its syntactic structures and untranslatable connotations and its denotations.

Gotta love this stuff. Calque...I would have assumed you were talking about installing floor tile or perhaps engaging in serious geekspeak about the computational gymnastics one could pull with a TI-85.