#linguistic help

[estel-and-agape]

US mutuals, how would you describe a job in the food and beverage industry? Is it retail? Hospitality? Hospo?

[efurutravel]

A thought

Would anyone argue that English (now) has no plural “you”? 

Often, something else is added to “you” to -make- (imply) that it’s plural.  You all, you both, you guys, you lot, etc...  

Would a native speaker go up to a group of people and say, “What are you doing?” and be referring to everyone and everyone know they are all being addressed? 

[mrakyvkafi]

Calling all linguistically gifted tumblrinas to help!

This is from old German TV show (Alarm für Cobra 11 - Einsatz für Team 2 to be exact) and I always wondered what language is this? Is it one language? Or two different ones? Is it Japanese? Chinese? Is it some other language I don't know about because I'm a dumb European? Or complete, EU-made gibberish?

Google Translate is of no help and the rest of the tools I found are either uncertain or explicitly gen AI, which, no. I would love to offer better screens, but those are the best ones I have.

I'll be eternally grateful to anybody willing to help. <3

(I'm tagging for reach, so please don't be mad at me if isn't your language, I mean no offense, I swear.)

[greenandstudying]

Linguistics Help

can anybody explain the pronunciation difference between [ʌ] and [ə] because they sound the same to me in every example that I can find?