Questions tagged [tag-synonyms]
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Synonymising tags slavic and slavic-languages
As of today, there are two independent tag slavic and slavic-languages. From their description it is clear that the two should be synonyms; but alas, I have not enough tag score to do it on my own.
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Cleaning up the tags
In the last couple of days I was in a kind of clean-up rage and crawled all the tags on our site, edited a few (going to add some exceprts to the yet description-less tags when I have the time) and ...
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How do numbers differ from numerals?
Tags numbers and numerals appear to cover exactly the same ground: names of numbers, which Wikipedia describes in "Numeral (linguistics)". Both are distinct from grammatical-number, which is about ...
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What is the difference between Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing?
On another site, https://cs.stackexchange.com/, I wondered why we had a
tag for Computational Linguistics and another for Natural Language
Processing? I suggested in meta a merge as I did not seem to ...
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Should the tags *word-classes* and *parts-of-speech* be synonyms?
I don't know of any definition where they are not synonyms and many relevant questions use both.
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Should the tags *dialects* and *dialectology* be synonyms or merged?
It seems to me that the tags dialects and dialectology are used as synonyms. There are three questions tagged as belonging to dialectology and they are also tagged as belonging to dialects. Should the ...
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Tag for language spoken in former Yugoslavia
I've just asked a question about regarding the language variety spoken in Serbia, Croatia, and other areas of former Yugoslavia. I understand the naming of the language is a contentious political ...
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What are all of these questions about Sign Languages?
As you can see 11 questions were bumped to the front page about Sign Languages.
I changed the tags from signed-languages to sign-languages since this is the most common and used way to refer to ...
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How should we name language family tags
Apparently we have two naming systems
Just the adjectives: indo-european, sino-tibetan
Adjective + "-languages": romance-languages, semitic-languages
Adjective + "-family": germanic-family
Obviously ...
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Real linguists, please feel free to boldly improve our tagging
Sometimes us armchair linguists and language enthusiasts don't know the all the right terms or some subtle difference between terms or that two terms are actually synonyms.
I've been pretty hazy on ...
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Should we merge the "historical linguistics" and "language change" tags?
Currently we have the two tags historical-linguistics and language-change.
I thought I'd take a crack at making tag wikis for them since I have an intuition of what they mean but for some help with a ...
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