Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2012

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 1


 * 1) British accent
 * 2) Hitoshi Doi
 * 3) Bora Bora
 * 4) "Providing that" vs. "Provided that". Is one of them more common?
 * 5) Negative energy

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 2


 * 1) WHO is the oldest AEthnia: Abissinia[Aetiopya]  YUDAEUS, EGYPTIAN, helens[ greek]  TRAKS,  dacians, DOICH, DUCH,?

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 3


 * 1) Term in singular for SS personnel on a Nazi concentration camp staff
 * 2) Portal symptoms
 * 3) Japanese: Pronunciation of ～す
 * 4) the meaning of "blow me away"

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 4


 * 1) Christian name : "Spruille" ?
 * 2) to be blown up = shell shock ?
 * 3) Priced to Own

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 5


 * 1) French translation
 * 2) Jzn. (Dutch abbreviation)
 * 3) Tequila effect
 * 4) Heads of Agreement

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 6


 * 1) Pinyin "iong"

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 7


 * 1) Agreeance
 * 2) Origins of African-American first names
 * 3) French help: "Unknown control"
 * 4) 'Utot' related to 'toot'?

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 8


 * 1) Learning Yiddish
 * 2) English in Bollywood

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 9


 * 1) Massacre
 * 2) Chinese help

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 10


 * 1) The role of nouns
 * 2) He remarried to
 * 3) French R
 * 4) captions
 * 5) I need help in understanding these sentences.
 * 6) Sindhi and Gujarati language similarities

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 11


 * 1) Chinese names for places in North Korea?
 * 2) Question about punctuation (again)
 * 3) German sein in the past tense
 * 4) Spanish Speaking wikipedia check out a table for me...
 * 5) Prepositions

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 12


 * 1) Ejective consonants
 * 2) Italian help
 * 3) Grammar
 * 4) As knows him..?
 * 5) Civil Union in Spanish

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 13


 * 1) Seraiki Sindh Punjab pakistan districts
 * 2) Water Tankering
 * 3) Ramayana etymologies
 * 4) Grammar dispute

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 14


 * 1) Typographical device using bold and regular without whitespace.
 * 2) Name by which Venetians referred/refer to outsiders

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 15


 * 1) Horses; "up for claim"?
 * 2) νέφος - modern or ancient Greek?
 * 3) Norwegian
 * 4) Letter to a Dean (freedom fighter's discount)
 * 5) "of" superfluous or no?

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 16


 * 1) Always Fiddling -- translated into Latin
 * 2) Most correct way to say 'Latin is dead' in latin?
 * 3) German
 * 4) Comparative in English
 * 5) Names of planets

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 17


 * 1) Need help in translating this French sentence
 * 2) What is the meaning implied in the name of 2011 British film "Retreat"?
 * 3) Greek etymology entanglements: poppies and death
 * 4) Article

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 18


 * 1) lonely person
 * 2) Collective name for kangaroos
 * 3) Sculpture at the wall of temples

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 19


 * 1) Latin motto or slogan for a radio operator
 * 2) Proverbs 1 V 4 King James
 * 3) Latin pronunciation

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 20


 * 1) Latin translation
 * 2) What appears to be strange English
 * 3) Foperies or ſoperies
 * 4) Open Syllables

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 21


 * 1) translat paragraph
 * 2) Learning a sign language or an oral language - which is easier?
 * 3) Latin translation, please

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 22


 * 1) Han Seung-yeon
 * 2) Gathering Blue
 * 3) Name of Burma in Burmese
 * 4) "dressed better than the street"

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 23


 * 1) Back on "Christian name : Spruille", & thanks
 * 2) "Arbeiterklasse" vs. "working class"
 * 3) 'Homogeneous' or 'homogenous'?
 * 4) Tsigainer by Itzik Manger
 * 5) “Von ARD bis ZDF”

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 24


 * 1) Sunday függler ?

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 25


 * 1) Grammarians wanted - but only with a poetic sense of humour.
 * 2) Unvoiced initial S in German

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 26


 * 1) Is "welfare" aspirational or non-aspirational in your country?
 * 2) Book of Mormon Conlang
 * 3) “Sonn-”

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 27


 * 1) tiny Chinese characters
 * 2) Connectors in English Grammar (discourse markers?)
 * 3) interpreting German translation

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 28


 * 1) "Equatorial Guinea" in Fang language
 * 2) Semper avarus eget
 * 3) Stimme des Stoßbrigadlers
 * 4) "Study of Indians"

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 29


 * 1) Kyrgyzstan pronunciation
 * 2) Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zélée
 * 3) Adjectival form of "species"
 * 4) Dying a happy death, etc
 * 5) Phonology
 * 6) Language poster
 * 7) Ariel Rebel

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 30


 * 1) lay/laid
 * 2) Sentence from an English test
 * 3) etymology of "come with"
 * 4) Language Log question: (sharks & new yorkers)
 * 5) Rhymes with "maybe"