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  1. Interesting: #English #inflectionalMorphology on a #MandarinChinese verb (or better Verb-Object construction), even if in meme context: 搬砖 ban1zhuan1 carry + brick 'do hard physical labor' + ing
    Probably the fact that Mandarin Chinese also has progressive markers that follow the verb make this easier (?)
    #borrowing #loanMorphology