Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2016

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 1


 * 1) New Oxford dictionary
 * 2) Chinese references in Bertha Sneck
 * 3) Relatives

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 2


 * 1) Odd punctuation for the subtitle for the film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
 * 2) Good sources of poetry commented
 * 3) What does the phrase "goodness and light" mean in this context?  Update: the phrase was "sweetness and light".

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 3


 * 1) Comprehensive book about language features
 * 2) Accented forms of English...

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 4


 * 1) Use of 'junior', 'III' etc in US names
 * 2) "Octember"

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 5


 * 1) German sources for Panama Papers article
 * 2) What does unjoined Arabic "feel" like?
 * 3) Irregular comparative and superlative
 * 4) Drama- Vocal styles for audio-plays.

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 6


 * 1) Cases in Esperanto
 * 2) American English Language
 * 3) North Korean name for Vietnam
 * 4) Does Pachelbel have anything to do with Easter?
 * 5) Does the word "niggard" have to die?
 * 6) Temperatures get higher or lower, not warmer or cooler

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 7


 * 1) Unexpected hanging paradox
 * 2) It's all Greek Dutch to me

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 8


 * 1) What are the reasons/advantages of reading and writing from left-to-right versus from right-to-left?
 * 2) British "chemist"
 * 3) Most languages spoken per person
 * 4) When an action (verb) occurred in the past, but is written in the present tense (historical present tense / narrative present tense)

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 9


 * 1) Manual keigo
 * 2) Hiragana#Table_of_hiragana's completeness
 * 3) Are the following sentences accepted in the spoken English language?

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 10


 * 1) What is she saying?
 * 2) No puedo cambiar la lengua de Wikipedia

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 11


 * 1) What did "lorry" mean in 1940s US?

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 12


 * 1) Can English make a distinction between two different kinds of When-questions, about the statement: "Yesterday they believed, he would die tomorrow" ?
 * 2) Wireless in Animal Farm
 * 3) Are all the cooks gone?
 * 4) hallelujah, etc.

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 13


 * 1) Dutch Brabantse Pijl, why not Brabant Pijl

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 14


 * 1) Are Yiddish and German mutually intelligible?
 * 2) IPA question

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 15


 * 1) Sou desu ne.
 * 2) Young adult fiction vs young adult
 * 3) Jchekovitch spelling

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 16


 * 1) What is the proper formatting of date ranges for two partial years?

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 17


 * 1) multikulti
 * 2) Mesopotamian name for Egypt
 * 3) Language of Wikipedia templates
 * 4) Chinese translation needed for new article?
 * 5) Controversy around definition of present perfect?
 * 6) Go figure in Australia

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 18


 * 1) Bilingualism in Canada
 * 2) list of verbs in different languages
 * 3) translation of the article on "leverage buyout" in French
 * 4) Why no "distrustworthy"?

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 19


 * 1) Help from Hungarian speaker
 * 2) Strategic walking
 * 3) Rajita

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 20


 * 1) Essay
 * 2) the differance

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 21


 * 1) Dictionary with words grouped by topic

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 22


 * 1) Language on sign
 * 2) Period for sentence end after period for abbreviation end?

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 23


 * 1) What is the part of speech?  What is the possessive form for "which" or "that" when applied to non-humans?

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 24


 * 1) Finnish / Swedish name order
 * 2) Temple
 * 3) A Swedish, a Norwegian, and a Dane go into a bar
 * 4) language change
 * 5) Request for a translation

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 25


 * 1) Why synonyms?
 * 2) MC Edge
 * 3) "to kill a mockingbird" "killing a mockingbird"

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 26


 * 1) English ⟨th⟩, European Spanish ⟨ce, ci, z⟩ and [θ], [ð]

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 27


 * 1) A Commons root
 * 2) Besides Turkish (and maybe Azeri) and Modern Hebrew, are there other languages whose word for "and" is pronounced [ve]?
 * 3) Complete vs. completed
 * 4) Style guides, stacked punctuation
 * 5) International English
 * 6) Inward and outward-facing circles of people

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 28


 * 1) Order of sentence, putting one element in the front

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 29


 * 1) translation Italian-English

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 30


 * 1) translation Italian-English
 * 2) Question about brand translations
 * 3) Translation from Arabic? to English
 * 4) Language used in Minion (film)?