Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2024

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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 1

1. "Pearl-clutching"

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 2

1. A super's banner
2. Translation issues

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 3

1. Vote or votes?

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 5

1. Japanese place names outside Japan

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 6

1. Questions
2. Numerals

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 7

1. Loans from Welsh in Old English
2. Brittonic words for 18
3. Sino-Xenic toponyny

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 8

1. Individual conjecture

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 13

1. Der Alte (Fuchs?)

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 15

1. Triple parenthetical phrases
2. Scientific transliteration

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 17

1. "Two English"
2. May someone tell me what language this video are in?
3. Drone as a German word

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 21

1. Ur-pun
2. Is backwards English a language?
3. Kilometre

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 22

1. Philomena Cunk's English
2. Leaving out "to be"
3. OSV and VSO words orders
4. Why is the verb yap considered a TikTok trend?
5. Suspend

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 24

1. Which + <noun>...? vs. What + <noun>... ?
2. Are there apps or any software, that can identify the native language of a speaker currently speaking in a non-native language (e.g. English)?
3. using past perfect verbs with dates in the same sentence

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 29

1. Tais everywhere!
2. An Egyptian "god of the extended arm"

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 30

1. What is this hieroglyph?
2. Is there a generic term for "speaker or signer" yet?
3. What are these cuneiform signs?

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 31

1. Argelasse
2. IRL
3. Blue Skies