Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2023

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 * 1) Arabic surnames including al and bin

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 * 1) Comical comparatives

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 * 1) Most common terms for marijuana

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 * 1) Captioning order when multiple visual elements are not aligned

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 * 1) Rounding numbers up instead of down

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 * 1) Calques (istorija) versus coining (povijest) --   if I understand properly the definition of the terms -- for purpose of linguistic  distinction and resistance to foreign influence.  Any history of English (post-1066) refusing to take loan words ?

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 * 1) "Ghout" agricultural practice, written in Arabic
 * 2) days of the week in Catalan and Occitan

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 * 1) Catalan: History of pronunciation

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 * 1) Trivial exercise: educational aid, "root words"

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 * 1) Hebrew-Aramaic contact
 * 2) Japanese Katkana for U (ウ) used in place of chōonpu (ー)

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 * 1) Transliteration

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 * 1) What does oceanic mean??

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 * 1) US map in Ojibwe

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 * 1) Michaelangelo

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 * 1) Questions
 * 2) Units of currency named after the country or place

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 * 1) Is this Persian etymological theory accurate?
 * 2) Family relationship
 * 3) Upward comparison of 2-syllable adjectives.
 * 4) Finding location of a Lebanese church
 * 5) Did all Americans during the Revolution speak in British accents?

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 * 1) An/a style question

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 * 1) Putin tulee kylään
 * 2) What's a dead metaphor?
 * 3) Place of articulation

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 * 1) Latin conjugation question

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 * 1) Questions again

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 * 1) Could these languages switch to Latin alphabet?
 * 2) Why does Swedish and Norwegian double long vowel letters?

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 * 1) Is Balzac now a bad word???

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 * 1) Transliteration of East Slavic and Persian names into Italian
 * 2) Changes to colours in many languages in 1990
 * 3) LATIN and Romance languages

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 * 1) To what extent are the titular languages of the Russian republics still official?
 * 2) Japanese term for "spoiled girl"