Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2009

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 1


 * 1) What does German media call Conficker
 * 2) I'm looking for a book, but I don't recall the title or Author.

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 2


 * 1) Decode this phrase from Francis Ormond
 * 2) Hi-Hi and Tak-Tak (thankyou) > Icelandic
 * 3) Using 을/를 in spoken Korean

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 3


 * 1) period after first name?
 * 2) abbreviation "a.i."
 * 3) Wallpaper idiom
 * 4) Abbreviations for first names
 * 5) Division or Department

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 4


 * 1) When John met his uncle he took off his hat

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 5


 * 1) What does this sentence mean?
 * 2) Native American Personal Naming Conventions
 * 3) Copyright status of the Swadesh list

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 6


 * 1) A subordinated clause treated as a complete sentence
 * 2) Weird message from EU wiki? (from WP:HD)
 * 3) sub-national divisions

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 7


 * 1) dinner was held
 * 2) Ekervally
 * 3) What does "Druda" mean?
 * 4) spanish translation
 * 5) Plural of the noun "gas"
 * 6) Czech people and English
 * 7) Changes between positive and negative verb forms

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 8


 * 1) 'Faux' For French "False", "True" English For French
 * 2) How does Timon Screech pronounce his name?
 * 3) Is it "winner" or "winners" if a sports team has won a competition?

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 9


 * 1) Affrikaans
 * 2) objective, neutral phrasing for the worst things a country is able to do (q removed)
 * 3) Last name, first name
 * 4) Is it Italian? What does it mean?
 * 5) French Translations
 * 6) Wack (hip-hop slang)
 * 7) How did Chinese in the old time transcribe their Chinese characters which can't be spelled?

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 10


 * 1) Overwhelmed vs. Underwhelmed
 * 2) need translation "je suis médusé"

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 11


 * 1) Ukrainian town name
 * 2) Is there a god of elections?
 * 3) Dita Saxova - the movie
 * 4) Melvin Mouron Belli
 * 5) Name of Type of Joke
 * 6) Trains

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 12


 * 1) spanish translation
 * 2) Conservative bias
 * 3) Which word is correct (on or of)?   Or are both correct (on and of)?
 * 4) language
 * 5) Translation needed from French: "lices"
 * 6) Overuseismism? Ismism?
 * 7) spanish translation (2)

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 13


 * 1) Created language
 * 2) Christ is risen
 * 3) French translations: 2
 * 4) Seeking children's book for beginner learner of Italian
 * 5) Can someone covert this to english? I nicked it from the image page as it seemed more appropriate here
 * 6) Need to write down Hindi script

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 14


 * 1) Word or words that covers a particular kind of qualitative judgment
 * 2) Real word?
 * 3) Swedish: "kort"
 * 4) Boutros Boutros-Ghali?
 * 5) Spelling: swordsmistress
 * 6) Letters of a word rearranged to make two words

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 15


 * 1) A word meaning misplaced nationalism
 * 2) Navy SEALs
 * 3) conjugation of the english verb come in the phrase "which must shortly come to pass"
 * 4) Who knows the most number of languages?
 * 5) I need help understanding two lines in an article.
 * 6) Gerund v. verbal noun
 * 7) Pronunciation of "MRSA"
 * 8) "Arschgeburt"

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 16


 * 1) Need greek translation
 * 2) Russian pronunciation
 * 3) Computer in French
 * 4) 郵便書留
 * 5) Linguistic Board
 * 6) Going to the bathroom
 * 7) arabic translation

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 17


 * 1) Is There A Word For Stories That Are Different But Have A Simlier Thing?
 * 2) Beanz meanz Heinz
 * 3) Say what?
 * 4) IPA transcription of centralised Scottish short I?
 * 5) Choosing e-mail subject lines
 * 6) Choosing section headings on Wikipedia talk pages and on Wikipedia Reference Desk pages

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 18


 * 1) Graduating
 * 2) Korean Question
 * 3) Request for help with Latin translation
 * 4) My sister's hobby (in Chinese)
 * 5) spanish translation for Q-tip
 * 6) clear and deep understanding the problem?

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 19


 * 1) IPA of my name
 * 2) French translations : 3
 * 3) Origins of the word coon (as a racial slur)

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 20


 * 1) Plural of French Nouns
 * 2) A Good Pun?
 * 3) The name Jiverly
 * 4) Oh you
 * 5) What is the word for that feeling in teeth..

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 21


 * 1) Santa Claus
 * 2) ESL "essential English phrases list"
 * 3) Speaking vs. understanding
 * 4) Use of parenthesis in quotes like "[W]hen blah blah..."
 * 5) Birds and animals
 * 6) German translation help needed
 * 7) Playing on/at/? a Steinway piano
 * 8) Longest word using specific letters
 * 9) The A/Effect of A on B?
 * 10) Korean word, quite notorious for beingn abstract/hard to translate
 * 11) funny sentences from an English language column

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 22


 * 1) Italian translation
 * 2) English to Arabic
 * 3) Programmatical
 * 4) What does the word sativus mean?
 * 5) Quick translation of German phrase

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 24


 * 1) fish vs fishes
 * 2) French Translations: 4
 * 3) Name
 * 4) Latin phrase
 * 5) PC
 * 6) US
 * 7) Name for party noisemakers
 * 8) Name vs. username
 * 9) Gender in cables, pipes, etc.
 * 10) latin question on accusative and infinitive

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 25


 * 1) Dying of "aspiration"
 * 2) French Translations: 5
 * 3) How do you call this?
 * 4) Brother, where art thou?
 * 5) Leave, never to return
 * 6) Touting one's own works (figurative expression)
 * 7) Poetry and pop music
 * 8) Japanese vocabulary
 * 9) "shear deformation"

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 26


 * 1) How do you write with a southern accent from the 1900 in Alabama?
 * 2) strange different forms of the passive in English
 * 3) Interesting sentence
 * 4) French Translations: 6
 * 5) United Kingdom
 * 6) Do you speak Chinese? How come - both: "I want" and "I think" - are translated as 我想 ?
 * 7) American English problems (for me)
 * 8) Frong
 * 9) Commission or order a building?
 * 10) Initials at the end of names
 * 11) 5 vowels for operatic Italian?

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 27


 * 1) We want wikipedia pages in Bengali
 * 2) Fit for neither man nor beast
 * 3) Hebrew + English
 * 4) Compound words in UK English and US English

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 28


 * 1) Redundant
 * 2) Mandarin Pronunciation of "@"
 * 3) Plural or singular?
 * 4) German or Chinese translation
 * 5) a female mouse is a doe?
 * 6) Naming a baby boy
 * 7) CUm
 * 8) Word for a certain type of addiction
 * 9) Grammatical gender - useless?
 * 10) to watch/see/hear the concert?

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 29


 * 1) Master Of Ceremonies or Master of Ceremony
 * 2) The genitive
 * 3) Estonian Given Names
 * 4) Born of / Born from
 * 5) Two spaces after a full stop
 * 6) French slang
 * 7) Incomparable crack
 * 8) Bomb

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 30


 * 1) Could someone explain this poem to me?
 * 2) Being a Nazi