Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2014

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 1


 * 1) Eastern European naming conventions
 * 2) Word request

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 2


 * 1) Asia languages
 * 2) Existing features under lost estates
 * 3) Port/dock terminology,
 * 4) Words on a Chinese date stamp

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 3


 * 1) Breakfast Cereals Business
 * 2) reworking a sentence

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 4


 * 1) Etymology of "order" -- illogical?
 * 2) Two Chinese questions
 * 3) Medical terminology
 * 4) Japanese help: Are the authors of this report independent of the Liceo Mexicano Japonese?

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 5


 * 1) anecdotally
 * 2) Language with only three verbs

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 6


 * 1) History of netiquette conventions
 * 2) Hindi (?) -> English translation
 * 3) Correct wording
 * 4) Trying to find TLS article

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 7


 * 1) "Pled" vs "Pleaded"?
 * 2) Right dislocation in English
 * 3) Parse Tree for lists
 * 4) "Traveling overseas"
 * 5) English Quote -> Arabic Translation

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 8


 * 1) Handwritten list of Anglican bishops of England?
 * 2) How did people view nature before the Enlightenment?

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 9


 * 1) Any French ornithologists in the house?
 * 2) Surname "Iwi"
 * 3) Nation foundation
 * 4) Chinese character request

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 11


 * 1) Why present continuous tense
 * 2) Japanese help: translating names of Japanese sources listed in Wikipedia discusión:Consultas de borrado/Liceo Mexicano Japonés
 * 3) Unusual pronunciation pattern

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 12


 * 1) Possible slang meaning of Czech word
 * 2) "AAAAAA!" but not "BBBBBB!"
 * 3) Arabic help: What is the Arabic in the poster?
 * 4) Chinese Taipei

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 13


 * 1) Japanese exonyms
 * 2) Athens and Attica

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 14


 * 1) "Brunette"
 * 2) Using "they" even if the gender is known
 * 3) "Drank out of the wrong bottle" ?
 * 4) "Knew an Arsenal from Tottenham blue"

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 15


 * 1) wondtacular

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 16


 * 1) Correct preposition: account ... a website
 * 2) Proper grammar question
 * 3) Similar root words, similar meanings...
 * 4) Pakistan Post motto
 * 5) Preclude
 * 6) Transliterating names

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 17


 * 1) Ces gens dans le Nord
 * 2) What is this Japanese language source about? Do the authors have a connection to the subject?I
 * 3) Taking care of living things

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 18


 * 1) make the list
 * 2) Triplets of triplets
 * 3) Correct word
 * 4) "And" at the beginning of a paragraph

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 19


 * 1) Not religious. Not agnostic. Not atheist. Just doesn't care.
 * 2) Czech sentence
 * 3) Artificial 'boo' in horrors
 * 4) Euthanize in Spanish
 * 5) is there a word to describe three vessels merging into one vessel (i.e. as occurs in veins)

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 20


 * 1) what we're using for a tablecloth
 * 2) Hypernyms and hyponyms

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 21


 * 1) Difference between "His main success lies in... " and "His success mainly lies in"
 * 2) rayoysfirkom? (Soviet acronym in Yiddish)

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 22


 * 1) Grammticality judgement

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 23


 * 1) the meaning of "drive"
 * 2) "Sherpa" as a surname

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 24


 * 1) "Animal verbs" in foreign languages
 * 2) Ger. Rössl
 * 3) Godeschalk / Godescalc

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 25


 * 1) Hyphen in Moby-Dick
 * 2) American and British English
 * 3) Floating a horse's teeth
 * 4) Self-pronunciation

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 26


 * 1) Persian help: What is the Persian in this image?
 * 2) Translating and pronouncing a Russian sentence

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 27


 * 1) ”une association de défense des victimes de dérives sectaires”
 * 2) Refracty bits
 * 3) Articles in three-gendered versions of Swedish
 * 4) Upper case F

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 28


 * 1) Request for translating a list of Japanese sources into English
 * 2) the number and the size of cities

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 29


 * 1) year-era
 * 2) the meaning of "zap the fire out of a person"
 * 3) Request: Transcribe Japanese sentences at the top of a page in a PDF file
 * 4) Talking a lot but is fake sounding
 * 5) Question about Polyglossia article and Liceo Mexicano Japones

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 30


 * 1) the meaning of "tools"
 * 2) Nationality Issue for Spanish Catalan biographical articles
 * 3) French help: What does this news broadcast say about "Stellar Airways" (Congolese airline)
 * 4) ENGLISH: Soaring Wings?
 * 5) Siderian vs sidereal