Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2023

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November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 2

1. When do ancestor and descendant languages become different languages?
2. Portuguese categories

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 4

1. Collaborationism
2. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 5

1. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Outtakes – What does Barry say?

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 6

1. Select your correct radiotelephony alphabet of su and we kana

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 7

1. Czech question: držák and tříska
2. Sources and citations related to kanji use
3. Questions again

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 9

1. Paraphrasing

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 11

1. "Over against"
2. Is there a way to read this blurry text?

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 14

1. Other name for "Grammar words"
2. Titles

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 15

1. Is this text significant?

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 16

1. Do U C ? Besides English, are there other languages that use the verb Do as an auxiliary verb in "do you see" and likewise?
2. Who's the finger really pointing at?

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 17

1. Is the t in match silent??
2. More than half

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 18

1. Modern Greek transliteration

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 21

1. Use of capital "J" as a substitute for the digit "I"
2. Inverted exclamation mark

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 22

1. Does the phrase "fanum tax" have any meaning or is it just a very recent meme?

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 23

1. "I thought he is there". Is it a non-native speech?
2. "travel" with a single l, vs. "travelling" with a double l, in British English.
3. Every single day

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 25

1. Only
2. sonority in Arabic
3. New questions

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 27

1. Ohlone language

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 November 29

1. Number of syllables in field