Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2008

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 1


 * 1) IPA transcriptions
 * 2) Summer Olympics
 * 3) Free dual language Spanish-English books

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 2


 * 1) Barbara Walters's accent
 * 2) Vocabulary
 * 3) Sports articles or Sport articles
 * 4) What is origin of web dialect Examples Puppehs (puppies) Haz (have/has) Teh (the)
 * 5) Abstract nouns

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 3


 * 1) Hoofed biped
 * 2) sentence construction
 * 3) Where does "broheem" come from?
 * 4) Use of "to be"

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 4


 * 1) More German questions
 * 2) 'Gestalt' as a verb in English
 * 3) Translation from English into Gaelic
 * 4) Term of endearment?
 * 5) The Commonest Words in the English Language
 * 6) Hash symbol as number
 * 7) Dutch Scrabble?
 * 8) IPA symbol - Portuguese
 * 9) What does 'ffridd hafren primula' mean in Welsh?
 * 10) Anyone able to use the Devanagari script or even better read the Nepali language?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 5


 * 1) "Young at Heart"
 * 2) "I am" with past-perfect verbs
 * 3) Italian translation
 * 4) Speeded or sped

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 6


 * 1) Can't be arsed/assed
 * 2) Japanese
 * 3) What language is this?
 * 4) Help translating a motto into English
 * 5) Arabic names: ابن
 * 6) Hyphens and parsing of prefixes and suffixes
 * 7) "Br,"
 * 8) "Freund" and "Freundin"
 * 9) -Dialects in Spanish and English
 * 10) Name - proper transliteration
 * 11) Girls' names

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 7


 * 1) Italian translation needed
 * 2) cachi-
 * 3) Edo-era shogi rules
 * 4) Spanish accents
 * 5) Interesting usages
 * 6) Japanese

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 8


 * 1) mandarin aspiration
 * 2) Biblical quotation
 * 3) Consensuality?
 * 4) what's this say? Faroese translation
 * 5) Italian words for money: "denaro" or "soldi"
 * 6) "Lang may yir lum reek wi ither fowk's coal"
 * 7) siberian/north russian

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 9


 * 1) Is this wrong?
 * 2) Danish Letter
 * 3) Can anybody please translate Latin text?
 * 4) Are the Turkish Language and the Uyghur Language mutually intelligible?

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 10


 * 1) Serious question
 * 2) curly looking or curly-looking?
 * 3) Marathi Language its Origin and Age
 * 4) is japanese easy to learn if your chinese is good?
 * 5) mother
 * 6) Hyphen vs. dash
 * 7) Cover letter

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 11


 * 1) Was graduated

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 12


 * 1) Arabic Verbs
 * 2) One -> He
 * 3) Release from future liability
 * 4) Terminology
 * 5) Ist, IInd, IIIrd?
 * 6) Colon usage
 * 7) Latin translation please
 * 8) A question
 * 9) Russian translation
 * 10) or vs. nor

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 13


 * 1) Colloquial phrase
 * 2) issue of quantum
 * 3) Lover of phonetics
 * 4) Latin translation
 * 5) Pronunciation of Miljan Mrdaković
 * 6) English Grammar
 * 7) Persian translation
 * 8) name of an english tense
 * 9) what is the persian (farsi) word for philosopher?
 * 10) anglicization or simply typo?
 * 11) Japanese

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 14


 * 1) Comma after dash
 * 2) English language word.
 * 3) French or Spanish
 * 4) Estonian name
 * 5) Singing in English
 * 6) Verbs that are only transitive for one object

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 15


 * 1) Machines powered by putrilage
 * 2) Reversing order of words
 * 3) Smack verses slap - the same or a little different
 * 4) Word for those rhymes where you clap your hands and your partner's whie saying them?
 * 5) Automized
 * 6) Sports Fans

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 16


 * 1) Was/were
 * 2) A hard on(e)?
 * 3) Pronunciation of Achille Castiglioni
 * 4) things

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 17


 * 1) Equivalent term for female excitement
 * 2) language

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 18


 * 1) Manchu loanword in Mandarin Chinese
 * 2) Regarding reading comprehension.

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 19


 * 1) Names Meaning "Corrupted Innocence"
 * 2) military use of "actual"
 * 3) Hiccough
 * 4) Vulger Latin

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 20


 * 1) Almost-auto-antonyms?
 * 2) Letter frequencies in the Finnish language?
 * 3) Q
 * 4) Plurals of Abstract nouns
 * 5) The use of the term fiance
 * 6) translation from French to English
 * 7) Cows
 * 8) English grammar
 * 9) Spanish or Portuguese question

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 21


 * 1) Indonesian names
 * 2) English word that evokes a medieval doctor?
 * 3) A phrase in the The Da Vinci Code
 * 4) Libbie, Fudim
 * 5) Translation of "damnificadas"

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 22


 * 1) What is correct; Baseball parks or Baseball parks'?
 * 2) Japanese question
 * 3) French words

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 23


 * 1) Canine, vulpine, equine, etc.
 * 2) When did the word 'Uranus' start to become amusing?
 * 3) Phrase
 * 4) Nastia Liukin

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 24


 * 1) Southern American English
 * 2) Why are highways called that?
 * 3) Geometrie

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 25


 * 1) Horny
 * 2) ripcord
 * 3) Hottie
 * 4) ślůnsko
 * 5) Need somebody who speaks Arabic

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 26


 * 1) Japanese music venue website
 * 2) Notting Hill Carnival
 * 3) Null and void
 * 4) Please translate the following text from English to Latin
 * 5) information on a quote
 * 6) Fake or Fiction

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 27


 * 1) Searching for books
 * 2) El Hombre Gordo
 * 3) man in touch with his feminine side
 * 4) French to English genealogy translation

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 28


 * 1) Terms and condtions (as in business)--
 * 2) Whoever vs. whomever
 * 3) Pronouncing the name Alcide
 * 4) Translation of some Japanese text
 * 5) Poster Text
 * 6) French -- how bad is it to not use accents?
 * 7) Slovar

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 29


 * 1) English emphasis
 * 2) "Clown in libertà"
 * 3) Acronym request

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 30


 * 1) presidency/prime ministership
 * 2) The Douche Renaissance
 * 3) Swear words
 * 4) Tits
 * 5) japanese grammar

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 31


 * 1) Plurals
 * 2) Terms of endearment in Ireland
 * 3) a-...
 * 4) eyes are bigger than one's stomach