In a recent survey of 1,504 common words in English, for example, 616 (41%) were judged to be loanwords 48, yet in the traditional English Swadesh list there are still 32 borrowings out of 200 (16.5%), mostly from Old Norse and Old French 18; and in a recent revision of the Albanian Swadesh list, 34 out of 107 words (31.8%) were identified as possible borrowings 49.
Bond borrowings: 005 out of 007 Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy, the director and star of Bridesmaids and The Heat, reteam for a Bond spoof.
Bond borrowings: 006 out of 007 Matthew Vaughn's cheeky Bond pastiche makes no bones about its debt to the 007 franchise – although it isn't exactly respectful.
Bond borrowings: 007 out of 007 Ian Fleming helped create the 1960s television show, so it is no coincidence that The Man from UNCLE has always been Bondish.
Bond borrowings: 004 out of 007 In 2001, The Fast and the Furious was a small-scale Point Break knock-off about an undercover cop who infiltrated a gang of Los Angeles hot-rodders.
Bond borrowings: 005 out of 007 The BBC's dour MI5 series makes its cinema debut, with Kit Harington (sticking with his shaggy Game of Thrones haircut) as its Bond-alike hero, and a slew of glamorous locations.
Bond borrowings: 003 out of 007 An unpleasant vehicle for Sean Penn and his newly swollen biceps, The Gunman has the same director as Taken (Pierre Morel), so it has been viewed as Penn's bid to join Liam Neeson in the "geriaction" market.
Bond borrowings: 007 out of 007 One of the many television programmes inspired by the success of the 007 films, Mission: Impossible became even more Bondish on the big screen, with its OTT stunts and its emphasis on one hunky daredevil, Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt.
This is a significant error, but, if Lasch misunderstood Kohut, so did many other people, partly because of Kohut's diplomacy — he exaggerated his debt to Freud and deëmphasized his borrowings from the out-of-favor Ferenczi — but also, no doubt, because his writings are almost unreadable.
But my main interest is in the third and most numerous of these sins -- so-called plagiarism -- and in the zeal with which textual borrowings are being ferreted out and denounced as a sign of moral failure.
At the peak of the madness, the median large bank had borrowings of 37 times its equity, meaning it could be wiped out by a loss of just 2-3% of its assets.
