Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2022

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 * 1) Is "abortionist" offensive
 * 2) Postalveolar articulation

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 * 1) French greeting or call for attention, sounds like /saje/
 * 2) Un lama peut en cacher un autre !

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 * 1) Compound subjects
 * 2) Map in Ancient Greek

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 * 1) Checking something in a corpus using WordSmith?

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 * 1) Split Sabbath, Shabbat and Sabbat

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 * 1) Possessive of film character name with postfixed appositive actor name
 * 2) Phonotactics database
 * 3) What is the origin of the term "video" as used to describe visual media?

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 * 1) Does anyone recognize this language?
 * 2) What's the word in Turkish?

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 * 1) Identifying a word I heard. I'm not sure about its spelling and meaning

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 * 1) A couple of phonotactics questions

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 * 1) The Sound of Silence

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 * 1) English adjectives
 * 2) Noting a misspelled middle initial

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 * 1) ambiguous Japanese sentence

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 * 1) Things colloquially called "machine" in English

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 * 1) Ancient Greek and Germans

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 * 1) Words for "picky" in German

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 * 1) What language has the 'best" monophthong chart coverage?
 * 2) Mississippian period

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 * 1) Praematura morte jam erepto
 * 2) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

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 * 1) major (officer) in French
 * 2) Question marks as emojis

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 * 1) Saxophone = "knife murder"

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 * 1) Possessive form of names ending in z
 * 2) gavia articulata oculos

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 * 1) Is the language of this text Punjabi?

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 * 1) What would a division of geologic time named for New York be called?
 * 2) That's as an inanimate relative pronoun