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7 May 2023
- 17:5517:55, 7 May 2023 diff hist +963 Talk:Blood libel No edit summary
2 May 2023
- 13:4413:44, 2 May 2023 diff hist −2 Bengali language →Vocabulary: As already corrected under "Bengali vocabulary", this is a misuse of the term "reborrowing". Bengali is a descendant of Sanskrit, yes. But "reborrowing" means something entirely different, namely that a languages borrows a word and then the donor language borrows it back.
- 13:4213:42, 2 May 2023 diff hist −44 Bengali vocabulary Corrected misuse of the term "reborrowing" throughout the article. I understand that the idea is to indicate that Sanskrit is a predecessor of Bengali (which is true, of course). But that's simply not what "reborrowing" means. Reborrowing is when a language borrows a word and then the donor language borrows it back (example from wiktionary: English "football" > German "Fußball" > English "foosball")
- 10:1510:15, 2 May 2023 diff hist −25 Mauritian Creole →Lexicon: a development from "win" to "get" surely isn't "changed altogether", it's merely a slight notion
30 April 2023
- 23:2223:22, 30 April 2023 diff hist −51 Emphatic consonant The wording about the chain shift was ambiguous at best. At any rate these details aren't relevant here. More relevant is that this pronunciation is old and not a recent dialectal development.
28 April 2023
- 00:2700:27, 28 April 2023 diff hist −8 Talk:Crime in Chicago →Severe lack of broad historical coverage/context
- 00:2600:26, 28 April 2023 diff hist +477 Talk:Crime in Chicago →Severe lack of broad historical coverage/context