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Hi! I'm adding Acehnese entries and I've stumbled on a rather weird problem
Acehnese is written with diacritics in theory, in dictionaries they're written with the proper diacritics but almost everywhere else, they're not, even including governmental documents. Now this is nothing new like English's cafe, but Acehnese is full of these diacritics, they're rather essential for the language to differentiate vowel sounds, but most speakers doesn't really bother with them, even inventing new spelling of how they think it should be, like how lôn is often spelt as "loen". Returning back, not even all dictionaries use the diacritics, and some even conflicts on which diacritic is used in a word, or even the spelling of a word at that (take for example "drob" in the Acehnese Dictionary A-L but "drop" in the Acehnese Thesaurus).
These wouldn't really be a problem and you can simply add the correct spelling and ignore the "respellings", even if its widespread, but then there's expresso and embarrasing, both of which has its own page. Acehnese has a rather similar case with expresso, with meunyö and meunyoë, meunyö (if, supposing that) is the correct form while meunyoë (meu- (if) + nyoë (this)) is the eggcorn variation of it due to the o-merger where all o variants (o, oë, ô, ö) are pronounced the same or that they're differentiated but words are pronounced with the wrong variant (e.g. ngön being pronounced as ngon).
Which now lands me with a couple questions:
Thank you and cheers! Zayn Kauthar (talk) 19:24, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Two questions:
1. Should -coin be created as an English suffix entry? For all the cryptocurrency names? (eg: altcoin, bitcoin, decicoin, dogecoin, cryptocoin, memecoin, scamcoin). Currently it is not; all the crypto etymologies say "From thing + coin". Would it be better if instead they said "From thing + -coin"?
2. Category:English suffixes includes these entries as suffixes: -maxx, -maxxed, -maxxes, -maxxing. Is this correct, or should the last 3 be deleted? Because I don't see other suffixes in that category with seperate entries for each of their verb forms. Instead, you'd expect the etymology to look like: "From looks + -maxx + -ing."
-Vuccala (talk) 20:37, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
Is it possible to create an icon on my Taskbar that I can click on to open Wiktionary? Wiktionary used to be included as part of the WordWeb app. Stanleykorn (talk) 18:50, 14 June 2025 (UTC)
Can anyone check User:Wise Bridges Fool Walls' contributions? They seem to be adding many entries verbatim from the Dictionary of Japanese grammar book series to several words' talk pages. Masatami (talk) 21:11, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
I think the General American pronunciation of "quark" is actually a pronunciation of "quack". I've never made a Wiktionary contribution before and the page is currently locked for edits, but I think it would make sense to upload a correct audio log.
I'm willing to do it, but would love any guidance that any experienced user would like to give! Vincent.Xavier.Zell (talk) 13:32, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
I have a question about what "tự chế" can mean. Unfortunately, there has been an edit war. @PhanAnh123 has indicated (here) that SEAlang is a "bad dictionary" and that "not a single actual attestation on Vietnamese Wikisource actually has the meaning 'self-control', and well, as a native speaker, I think when it's actually used the meaning of 'self-control' in real life, which is 'never'."
PhanAnh123 did not explain why SEAlang was a "bad dictionary." According to SEAlang, "the SEAlang Library Vietnamese Dictionary Resources...are primarily based on William Peter Hyde's A New Vietnamese-English Dictionary (2008, Dunwoody Press, 928 pages; ISBN 978-1-931546-43-0 ... A second major source is based on lexicographical material developed by Prof. Bui Phung, Hanoi University..." The entry for "tự chế" on SEAlang seems to be from the second source as it is marked "Bui1992."
I have also seen some Bible verses that use "tự chế" to mean "self-control" or something similar like "discipline": "Nó sẽ chết vì không biết tự chế, và sự ngu dại nó sẽ dẫn nó đi lầm lạc" (1, NIV: "for lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly"), "kẻ nào không biết tự chế chẳng khác nào thành không vách" (2, NIV: "like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control"), and a longer one here. I suppose one can argue that these are bad translations, but that still does not prove that "tự chế" has never been used to mean "self-control" (or something similar). A.S. (talk) 16:15, 16 June 2025 (UTC) (edited --A.S. (talk) 17:03, 16 June 2025 (UTC)).
Transitive verbs have direct objects i.e. a pronoun or noun. A that clause is not a pronoun or a noun, but, for example, suppose and suggest is labeled as transitive verbs 5.173.174.147 16:59, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
I wanted to know how to link to senses, and found the help page was a stub. So I just edited a link to an old information desk question into the section, Wiktionary:Links#Links_within_the_project. Which is a lame way to do it. Would somebody care to write the section properly? It's been a stub for seventeen years, soon it will be old enough to vote. Card Zero (talk) 02:14, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
Are there any new words that are coined in 2020s? Where could we find this word entry? Should categories about neologisms in specific decade or year be created? Thank you for answering this. 2600:387:F:5719:0:0:0:3 01:29, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
@Geographyinitiative, is ǔ (as added e.g. here or here) the vowel in words like run, up? If so, my impression is that that is meant to be notated in enPR as ŭ (with a subtly different diacritic). If it's another vowel, the symbol doesn't seem to be covered by Appendix:English pronunciation at the moment. - -sche (discuss) 05:51, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
Where could I find a list of English loan words borrowed from Navajo language? Search bar? 216.9.110.11 00:04, 6 July 2025 (UTC)