Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2008

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 1


 * 1) Second language acquisition for reading
 * 2) Can't Remember the Word
 * 3) How many words do we know?
 * 4) How to say everything and nothing at the same time
 * 5) Gayelle and LexusNexus
 * 6) The Advancement of Learning
 * 7) Collective nouns in British English
 * 8) Is a coroner a police officer ?
 * 9) also can't remember a word
 * 10) American Accent:  Pronunciation of have
 * 11) japanese and chinese characters

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 2


 * 1) Etymology of Pachelbel
 * 2) Comprise
 * 3) Gateau
 * 4) whats the difference
 * 5) New Hampshire Demonym
 * 6) Why does the Nat King Cole song LOVE say "can"?

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 3


 * 1) Japanese Sound Symbolism
 * 2) Full Sized Yoon
 * 3) Carl vs. Kyle
 * 4) Gray tomatoes
 * 5) dont ignore
 * 6) "X-ray" or "X ray"
 * 7) Writing for several Wikipedias in different languages

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 4


 * 1) "In bed"
 * 2) To/or
 * 3) "Extra" symbols in devanagari - sanskrit
 * 4) What is the origin of "to haze" ?
 * 5) Driving directions
 * 6) Grammar Error in NYT headline?
 * 7) English language going back to the middle ages
 * 8) Maltese language: Semitic form vs Romance form
 * 9) Bang the Drum Slowly

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 5


 * 1) cretivity and achievement in english
 * 2) horse or reindeer riding accessory
 * 3) That's not a biscuit!
 * 4) Swahili greetings

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 6


 * 1) becoming a conference interpreter without a degree?
 * 2) "Can not" vs. "cannot" in the 1860s
 * 3) Would I be wrong in using the word "reinstatement" to recall an employee who resigned the job voluntarily
 * 4) "whose" or "of which" - when referring to inanimate objects
 * 5) "London, England". D'oh!

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 7


 * 1) A plus...
 * 2) British English vs. American English
 * 3) "[Noun] is bias"

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 8


 * 1) Words
 * 2) How do you correctly spell, "dubious"?
 * 3) Hebrew translation
 * 4) Synonym for "split up"
 * 5) Sponsored run?
 * 6) What does "to be instructed in the ways of sth" mean?
 * 7) Word Meaning a Small Input Causing a Large Output
 * 8) Spelling help.

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 9


 * 1) Continental European writing with American spelling
 * 2) LOL Catz
 * 3) "Placename" or "place name"?
 * 4) Faroese or Swedish surname?
 * 5) codswallop
 * 6) Phrase origination advice

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 10


 * 1) Niiko in Somali
 * 2) What's the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary?
 * 3) Requesting language support

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 11


 * 1) French quotation marks
 * 2) Early Spanish-English Phrasebook
 * 3) What does the Spanish word 'guarrindonga' mean?
 * 4) A challenge by a whisker

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 12


 * 1) Synonym problem (AGAIN, please help)!
 * 2) Noun

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 13


 * 1) An Alternative to Synoptic?
 * 2) interpreter's training (e.g. ba program or a certificate) that doesn't have a bachelor's degree prerequisite
 * 3) Order of English adjectives
 * 4) night and day
 * 5) dialoguer - to dialogue
 * 6) Pronunciation of are at the beginning of sentences.

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 14


 * 1) pronunciation
 * 2) Thrown under the bus
 * 3) Favouritism to ones family or siblings
 * 4) can we imagine sentences much faster than we can speak them?
 * 5) "Mispronounced" eponyms
 * 6) Chinese puns
 * 7) French translation of Divina Commedia's "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate"
 * 8) correct term for a baby hedgehog
 * 9) Japanese

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 15


 * 1) Greek Translation: Odyssey
 * 2) 1942 Japanese map
 * 3) English to Mongolian translation
 * 4) Leverage: the verb
 * 5) 'starting crying '
 * 6) Invaginated meaning introverted

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 17


 * 1) Why doesn't anybody pronounce Dick Cheney's name right?
 * 2) Thesaurus
 * 3) German Translation of "Defective by Design" (done)
 * 4) Kinship terms in languages
 * 5) Latin Tournament

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 18


 * 1) What do you call a person...
 * 2) German help
 * 3) Ryukyuan languages#Writing_system
 * 4) BOX or CARTON
 * 5) Random initial capital Letters

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 19


 * 1) how do you pronouce phoenix?
 * 2) origin of phrase "roll up the sidewalk"
 * 3) Someone vandalised the Wales section
 * 4) What's the word for?
 * 5) Clutch (sports)

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 20


 * 1) AARGH! What's the word...
 * 2) Gòngchǎndǎng in Wades-Giles
 * 3) Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 20
 * 4) Jail/prison?
 * 5) Common Grammar Questions
 * 6) Splitted
 * 7) 'Common' words used in only one 'situation'
 * 8) Jerk, nerd, dork, geek, wuss

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 21


 * 1) Tom cruise translation?
 * 2) How cold is it in Germany?
 * 3) Top 10 most spoken?
 * 4) synonym for "startup"
 * 5) Name of a shape
 * 6) Mnemonic versus Acronym?

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 22


 * 1) Latin translation please?
 * 2) A couple of questions on French

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 23


 * 1) sapir-whorf hypothesis
 * 2) linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism?
 * 3) Need 'one word' for a meaning
 * 4) South Wales
 * 5) Treatment of the plural representation of a singular concept
 * 6) two Russian questions
 * 7) Fun with Latin
 * 8) wheezing in spanish

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 24


 * 1) French term « accuser un coup » — what does it mean?
 * 2) how do you pronouce ayelie?
 * 3) portuguese translation request
 * 4) Ryukyuan languages#Writing_system
 * 5) Get Fuzzy
 * 6) Quotation conundrum
 * 7) spelling
 * 8) Hebrew translation: What does it means?
 * 9) To twist a rope of sand
 * 10) History book madness!

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 25


 * 1) Russian names
 * 2) Chinese: Mono-syllabic?
 * 3) What are those character?
 * 4) All nighter
 * 5) Persian : "لاك"
 * 6) Illiterate sheep questioner?

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 26


 * 1) Wikipedia talk?
 * 2) Japanese family history

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 27


 * 1) Sylly
 * 2) Arabic name in IPA?
 * 3) "commute bw. A and B" = "live between A and B"?
 * 4) Science desk Help Wanted

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 28


 * 1) Chinese transcription
 * 2) Old Venetian forms of address
 * 3) "Countach"
 * 4) Translate Basque to Chinese
 * 5) Which words dont belong
 * 6) Opposites
 * 7) Colbyesque
 * 8) Letter square problem

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 29


 * 1) Ancient Hellenistic cruise/party ship
 * 2) Cantonese Writing
 * 3) latin gerund
 * 4) Chinese term
 * 5) The BBC is  a Quack!
 * 6) Phrase in Ma Baker
 * 7) Simple grammar of English

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 30


 * 1) how do i say yes or no to another person's sentence
 * 2) Try and do something
 * 3) Translation from German to English
 * 4) Spanish: tener la cabeza como un marmolillo
 * 5) Not a problem
 * 6) Plurals
 * 7) Translation
 * 8) breton
 * 9) DDs
 * 10) Japanese word