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In German there's the saying "macht Sinn", which is wrong since it's just a direct translation of "makes sense". Correct would be "ergibt Sinn", in English "results in sense", but I don't care, "macht Sinn" rolls off the tongue easier.
Macht sinn to me.
Which is also just prescriptive bullshit perpetuated by grammar nazis
https://www.sprachlog.de/2009/01/12/seit-wann-machen-wir-im-deutschen-sinn/
I think if something gets said a certain way for a period of over a hundred years, maybe it's time to accept it as a normal way to say things
Exactly, it's perfectly kromulent.
A calque.