Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 3

= April 3 =

Breakfast Cereals Business
I want to start breakfast cereals business. please send me detials of business and where i registration my business? and what licence i need to start breakfast cereals business? Please help me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 42.104.12.87 (talk) 17:27, 3 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Your IP address indicates that you are probably asking about licensing and registration in India. You might have to wait a while before an expert on Indian law reads this, and even if they do, we are not allowed to give legal advice.  Meanwhile, you might like to look at our articles on Indian business law especially Registrar of Companies, India or just consult a local lawyer.    D b f i r s   18:10, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

reworking a sentence
I'm working on an article about the medieval Latin poem Si linguis angelicis and I'm getting stuck with the wording of a particular sentence. What I've got right now is "...the second stanza begins with the opening lines to Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis, a sixth-century Latin Easter hymn attributed to Venantius Fortunatus." My worry is the placement of Latin and Easter; being together and both capitalized like that, it seems to be a discrete thing (e.g. "We celebrate Latin Easter two weeks after the usual one!") I've reworked it a few ways, but they don't sound right either. I could rework it into multiple sentences, but I think that would interrupt the flow too much. Any help? Or am I fretting over nothing? Matt Deres (talk) 23:41, 3 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Try re-ordering the adjectives - "a Latin sixth-century Easter hymn". Or leave Latin out entirely, and trust that readers will know that Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis is Latin; or will know as soon as they click that link.  --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  00:01, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree with the leaving-"Latin"-out suggestion, but if you want another possibility, one is "...the second stanza begins with the opening lines of the sixth-century Latin hymn Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis, an Easter hymn attributed to Venantius Fortunatus". There are other ways of rewording, of course, such as "a sixth-century Latin hymn for Easter, attributed to Venantius Fortunatus". Deor (talk) 00:42, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * By the way, shouldn't "the opening lines" be "the opening words", since Pange, lingua is the only bit that actually corresponds to the earlier poem? Deor (talk) 01:01, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Another alternative "a sixth-century Easter hymn written in Latin and attributed to Venantius Forutnatus" MChesterMC (talk) 08:16, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * My opinion is that you aren't fretting over nothing. I agree with you that "Latin Easter" is awkward and suggests something besides "in Latin and for Easter." I vote for leaving "Latin" out or for MChesterMC's version above.--Dreamahighway (talk) 22:34, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestions, everyone; I suppose this is a good example of me thinking myself into a corner. Matt Deres (talk) 02:07, 5 April 2014 (UTC)


 * How about "a hymn for Easter"? —Tamfang (talk) 04:55, 5 April 2014 (UTC)