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Is "cone" a typo for "come" in the answer to the question, "Etymologically, why is there a v in 'Giovanni'"

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Why was this custom flag declined

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Dubious premise, valuable answer - what now?

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Why has not my post reopened again

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Bold formatting fails to render when characters wrapped in asterisks are in the unicode character set and not in ASCII

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The moderation philosophy regarding editing

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Transliteration; legibility; is “ethno-centrism” present; can avoidance be codified?

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Linguistics Overflow (for research-level)?

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Enabling Stack Snippets

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Should formal language theory questions be allowed?

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How do I post a question about the etymology of an idiomatic expression?

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Why do my questions about collision entropy of languages get downvoted? And it's not just on this forum

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Can I ask about Noun Case as a teaching theory?

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2022: a year in moderation

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Can I ask about relations of similarity beween 2 or more specific languages?

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What's the difference between this topic and the English for Language Learners Topic?

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Online spaces, communities, or channels for professional and academic linguists?

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Judging suitability for linguistics.SE or english.SE?

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Resources Sharing Policy

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Is the [homonymy] tag supposed to be for same pronunciation and spelling, or just either?

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This site's custom close reasons have now been reworked!

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Why does Spanish have different names for the letters of the alphabet from English?

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What steps can I take if my question is closed and deleted?

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Please don't remove questions from the reopen queue when there is debate about the original close reason

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About questions salvaging

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2021: a year in moderation

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Books on linguistics [closed]

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Posting the same question on another website WITHOUT disclosure?

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What should the site-specific close reasons be?

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How can we improve the semiotics tag wiki excerpt to clearly include sign language?

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Gentle request regarding the question about the intransitive use of "obtain" in academic writing

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2021 Community Moderator Election Results

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Announcing a "Graduation" election for 2021

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2021 Community Moderator Election

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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

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Why are questions about CFGs and related stuff so unwelcomed by the StackExchange Linguistics users?

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Clarity or Details. Information; what kind of information should I add for a specific question in the main site?

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Would a question about body language or a specific character in a writing system be off-topic?

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Since when, and why, are all Question titles in the mobile view overview ORANGE?

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Please merge and/or close all similar questions that request recommendations answered by our Reading List?

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Our Reading List

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Why was my suggested edit — to Mitsu Haideshi's answer with many separated links — rejected?

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Please posts links to ling.se questions with 'weird' characters

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Tag irregulariy: pronoun instead of pronouns

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Why can't I change the edits made to my answer?

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Can IPA formatting be enabled on sort-of-beta sites?

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Can we change the inadequacy of the off-topic list?

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What's going on with the Russian etymology questions?


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