Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2010

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 1


 * 1) Desert planet in Japanese
 * 2) Holmes, homes
 * 3) The larger woman
 * 4) WHICH ONE

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 2


 * 1) 'All female band' or 'All-female band'
 * 2) Bad Friday
 * 3) "Another" and "other" in legal provisions

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 3


 * 1) Clash of ofs
 * 2) Computer art scene groups' names
 * 3) Abbreviation
 * 4) Verb usage
 * 5) Why are penises called "cocks"?

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 4


 * 1) Reading figures of section
 * 2) "Tragedy" as generic term for misfortune or disaster
 * 3) "Cowboy" builder?
 * 4) How do you translate "故鄉" in Chinese into English?
 * 5) American pronunciation of foreign names

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 5


 * 1) He is beside himself.
 * 2) Phonetically

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 6


 * 1) Etymology of "This is why we can't have nice things"
 * 2) German garb, early 1940s
 * 3) Auto / Otto
 * 4) Ignis/Lapis
 * 5) Oronym

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 7


 * 1) Welsh
 * 2) Getting on famously
 * 3) Hebrew and Arabic
 * 4) Fluffy McFluffersons
 * 5) "The --- that dared to be"?
 * 6) Conjugating verbs

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 8


 * 1) Different people have different tastes
 * 2) Sprachbund
 * 3) Translation from French into English
 * 4) Is there really such a thing as the "Jewish Bible"?
 * 5) Past tense words

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 9


 * 1) People from Krasnoyarsk

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 10


 * 1) Traduttore, traditore!
 * 2) Pretty Woman, or Rich guy who likes cheap hookers?

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 11


 * 1) Help with article on Japanese subject
 * 2) Korean syllables
 * 3) SUV (pronunciation)
 * 4) South African English word "moltrein"
 * 5) Pronunciation of some French names
 * 6) I look for one word

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 12


 * 1) Looking for a German expert with a lot of time on their hands
 * 2) Correct terminology
 * 3) searching for meaning of a word

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 13


 * 1) es
 * 2) Correct English?  "such nicer"
 * 3) Gender
 * 4) Antonym
 * 5) Japanese translation
 * 6) Japanese
 * 7) German exonims
 * 8) Demolished building
 * 9) Eye of the Tiger lyrics

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 14


 * 1) Is there a larger variation of the Sator Square?
 * 2) long word
 * 3) Definition
 * 4) plural of  word
 * 5) Name of ideoligical conflict of the 20th century?
 * 6) Hawaiian diacritical use not explained
 * 7) Puzzling use of "people"
 * 8) List of Simplified Chinese Characters

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 15


 * 1) Use of to
 * 2) Italian pronunciations
 * 3) Expeditious expeditions
 * 4) Spoken parenthesis in a language
 * 5) Mark Antony
 * 6) Looking for (free) Coptic and/or Aramaic translation

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 16


 * 1) Chinese saying
 * 2) Colloquial American English:Lifts
 * 3)  Japanese Chinese Translation: Fruity Oaty Bars
 * 4) propaganda leaflets in library books
 * 5) "Great Scott" and similar phrases that mention first names
 * 6) Spoken language regional accent
 * 7) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ISO_639_Icon_co.svg

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 17


 * 1) Japanese sentences
 * 2) The condition of talking with Sinebots
 * 3) Malling
 * 4) Irish (Gaeilge): Saor & Daor

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 18


 * 1) agō
 * 2) Romanian names
 * 3) Head scratching
 * 4) Polish names

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 19


 * 1) French translation
 * 2) Freida Pinto
 * 3) English possessives of French names ending in silent -s
 * 4) Italian sentence
 * 5) Slovenian B - German labiodental correspondence
 * 6) Real estate
 * 7) Japanese island demonyms

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 20


 * 1) Usage
 * 2) Names in Foreign Languages
 * 3) Italian equivalent of "Sieg Heil" and similar

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 21


 * 1) english grammar
 * 2) To update
 * 3) Pronunciation of "route"
 * 4) German words that rhyme with "Strand"

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 22


 * 1) Italian translation
 * 2) Translation

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 23


 * 1) Urdu newspaper, need volume number
 * 2) Publication of The Last Answer

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 24


 * 1) simple french
 * 2) "Facts Of Interest"
 * 3) Domain specificity
 * 4) IPA software
 * 5) "No problem"
 * 6) Ironic "manage"

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 25


 * 1) Etymology
 * 2) monospace (fixed-width) East Asian characters same as Latin width?
 * 3) 'Correct' English
 * 4) Language identification
 * 5) Malayalam bot message
 * 6) IPA

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 26


 * 1) Double possessives and relative clauses
 * 2) What's kimbling?
 * 3) Hyphens in organizations and place names
 * 4) "Fast As I Can" or "Fast as I Can"
 * 5) avec versus en utilisant

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 27


 * 1) "nearly avoiding crash"
 * 2) Gay dog
 * 3) Parts of a sentence

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 28


 * 1) Animal naming customs
 * 2) English language help.
 * 3) Is "virtually" proper encyclopedic language?
 * 4) What does the word "Macaulish" mean?
 * 5) Black Americans/African Americans
 * 6) Translation
 * 7) Hindi Language
 * 8) French dog names

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 29


 * 1) Am I dumb?  English as a second language
 * 2) Russian
 * 3) Is there a word meaning "What there is and how much there is of it"?
 * 4) Nepali translation help
 * 5) science

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 30


 * 1) Would be
 * 2) Translate the Latin Phrase: "Turn Quantity Into Quality"
 * 3) USA and Canada
 * 4) Words spelled exactly the same way in different languages, but with entirely different meanings
 * 5) grammar
 * 6) what is an emergency door cock?
 * 7) Native language