There is now a new experimental close reason, as previously discussed: general reference This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information. Give tha...

Proposal: Linguistics

I've tried to install this Apple Emoji TTF font but even the Font Viewer doesn't render them correctly. Does anyone have an idea about whether this kind of font is supported in 10.10/Gnome 2.32 ?

About a book that I admire, I wrote in an SE computer-programming group: "The material seems old -- well, it is old -- because it's been around for long and, while by no means trivial, is well understood. A solution you can lift is published in W. Richard Stevens's superb and unparalleled book ...

What does the word spouse mean?

There are many words that in English are conjugated in the past tense to end in "-n": grow goes to grown, sew goes to sown, throw goes to thrown, etc.. I'm guessing it was probably the regular ending in English in some long past time. But as every growing child knows, the more common form has...

Are there any alternative standards to the IPA for phonetic transcription without the use of special characters? For instance, in this chart of ICAO phonetic alphabet, phonetic pronunciations are listed without the use of any special characters. Is there a standard for mapping IPA to such phonet...

What happens to the tag badges assigned to users, when the relative tag is deleted, or it is merged with another one? Do the users keep the badge even if the tag doesn't exist anymore?

Tag badges are the only systematically revokeable badges. They will be removed if you disqualify for the requirements, and the ensured non-existence of the tag is indeed a way to lose the badge. The same applies to vote undoing if you're right on the threshold, you would temporarily lose the badg...

Proposed Q&A site for professional linguists working in academia, industry, or the field, students of linguistics at the university level, and others with an interest in linguistic research and theory.

Currently in commitment.

Proposed Q&A site for students, teachers and lovers of the Italian language, and for madrelingua Italians

Currently in definition.

Proposed Q&A site for exactly the same as Stack Overflow but the Q&A would be in Italian only. This is because many Italian programmers are not confident enough with English to post questions/discuss them on Stack Overflow.

Currently in definition.

There's a long list of languages proposal on Area51, varying from an all encompassing language site to a focus one language site like the successful English Language & Usage. When I say they vary, I do mean that. As I just said, there's a site to contain all the languages question, whether...

I'm wondering if native speakers understand all the words in songs? For me it is very very difficult, I can understand only 30% of words and phrases in songs usually. While listening to people conversations (e.g. podcasts) I understand much more, perhaps about 80%. This was the first part of th...

I'm wondering if native speakers understand all the words in songs? For me it is very very difficult, as I can understand only 30% of words and phrases in songs usually. While listening to people's conversations (e.g. podcasts) I understand much more, perhaps about 80%. This was the first part ...

In my part of the world, we refer to highways without any article. So we drive on "Highway 64", or "Interstate 64", or "I-64". But when I go to California, they say "The 101". Is there any explanation for this difference?