Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2009

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 1


 * 1) Helviti and Helvetii
 * 2) Learn Language.
 * 3) Wikipedia languages
 * 4) Defensive Alliance, Offensive Alliance, Defensive and Offensive Alliance: What's the difference?

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 2


 * 1) Generic term for Asian characters
 * 2) High-Table origins of some old slang terms
 * 3) Znüni and Zvieri

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 3


 * 1) Fallacy?
 * 2) How do languages that use symbols (like Chinese) deal with new or unfamiliar words?
 * 3) Arabic language.
 * 4) Is there a term to describe two words that, when pronounced together, create ambiguity as to what the two words are?
 * 5) Good style
 * 6) Is it sheer laziness

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 4


 * 1) Paragraph numbering
 * 2) "bless you" in Japanese
 * 3) -ear- pronounced -ar-
 * 4) Help with Arabic
 * 5) The meaning of "Kohad" in different languages
 * 6) Name of grammatical relation

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 5


 * 1) Using a lower case letter for all caps names containing "Mc" or "Mac"
 * 2) translation from estonian wikipedia
 * 3) Logical connective
 * 4) Pleiades in Old English and Celtic languages
 * 5) What's the meaning?
 * 6) Statements versus promises
 * 7) Better word for "interrupted"
 * 8) Silent G in Ecclesia Gnostica?

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 6


 * 1) Tournament Seeding
 * 2) Recipe
 * 3) List of Popes
 * 4) The Cia-Cia writing system
 * 5) Rusty Latin
 * 6) question
 * 7) Rose Bay Willow Herb

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 7


 * 1) "Tomorrow, when the war began"
 * 2) Language surveys
 * 3) Closing a letter with " Sd/- "
 * 4) Seeking a philosophical motto for an egg cup
 * 5) Need a speech word for wrongdoing of another
 * 6) A tense question

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 8


 * 1) Pronunciation of Korean?
 * 2) Pronunciation of Richard Paget?
 * 3) "Word waterfall" in Icelandic
 * 4) Could "thing" in Isaiah 55:11 have been "object"?
 * 5) Tyw7
 * 6) portugese profanity

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 9


 * 1) Word for too hot food frustration
 * 2) Dollar sign
 * 3) small arabic translation
 * 4) History of Berber latin alphabet
 * 5) A kind of lexical gap?
 * 6) Japanese quote
 * 7) Plural of "formula"

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 10


 * 1) Polygons
 * 2) Wishings
 * 3) Willy nilly
 * 4) Think

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 11


 * 1) Polish Tenses
 * 2) title of German mathematical paper

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 12


 * 1) (at) home
 * 2) A question for US-English speakers of the eastern coast
 * 3) Children's radio story from the late 50s or early 60s
 * 4) Plural in Polish language

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 13


 * 1) can i get hindi edition
 * 2) What word did the Chinese of the Medieval period (particularly the 12th c.) use to refer to Europeans?
 * 3) Äöü(ß)
 * 4) Gothic day names

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 14


 * 1) Chinese classifier
 * 2) German pronounciation
 * 3) Use of past participle
 * 4) Argue

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 15


 * 1) Chinese
 * 2) French Phonology
 * 3) What
 * 4) Finnish pronunciation
 * 5) What's the term for using something outside its purpose?
 * 6) "February 2009 anti-clerical demonstration in Hong Kong"
 * 7) Asfashf "hipped-gabled"

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 16


 * 1) "two cents plain"
 * 2) vowel length and gemination in Hebrew dialects
 * 3) advance organisers
 * 4) Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
 * 5) What is the preferred term, if there's one, for a person who asks a question here?
 * 6) -ant or -ent?
 * 7) Translation to Russian

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 17


 * 1) What does this mean?
 * 2) Pronunciation of "blind"
 * 3) Roofs and rooves, and whom
 * 4) Indonesian assistance
 * 5) Under or underneath, or beneath, or below?
 * 6) Correct form
 * 7) sdf "politics organs"

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 18


 * 1) Yiddish word
 * 2) Hitting below the water line
 * 3) "Five more years till carousel"
 * 4) "Welcome" in modern aramaic / syriac

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 19


 * 1) quebec/canadian word for pacifier
 * 2) Appropriate business email sign-off in English, bonus points for Chinese version as well
 * 3) Latinise the term 'creative juice' please?
 * 4) 'runs in the family' jokes?
 * 5) French "unnecessary" sh-like sound after some words
 * 6) Republic of South Africa being referred to as S. Africa or similar

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 20


 * 1) Books about learning how to speak without hesitations
 * 2) "Science is a verb now"
 * 3) So glad to find this
 * 4) Same Etymology, Different Pronunciation

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 21


 * 1) Variant spellings in early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania
 * 2) Translations needed
 * 3) Lego
 * 4) Happy Christmas
 * 5) Grammatically correct but impossible sentence
 * 6) I'm sick of the high-hat
 * 7) Inglourious Basterds

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 22


 * 1) Ancient Chinese
 * 2) How is Wikipedia pronounced?
 * 3) Dutch naming convention question
 * 4) The word "damascan"
 * 5) Translation - Switzerland
 * 6) Earthy man
 * 7) Mathematically possible
 * 8) "Everloving" as an oath
 * 9) Monduan
 * 10) Pronunciation of Rudolf Caracciola

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 23


 * 1) Leaving out the word "the" when English is not one's primary language
 * 2) Google translation of "Petit Papa Noël"
 * 3) Translations

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 24


 * 1) stable
 * 2) Pokémon
 * 3) Ambiguous sentence
 * 4) Afrikaans given names

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 25


 * 1) Schwa vocalization in Hebrew pronunciations
 * 2) Which one?
 * 3) Pronunciation of Zdzisław
 * 4) Combining similar syllables in spoken english?
 * 5) "Slippy"
 * 6) Google as a verb
 * 7) Swedish question
 * 8) Translation from Czech
 * 9) "Jackpot"

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 26


 * 1) "Short a" in American English

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 27


 * 1) 전용훈
 * 2) Tongan orthography

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 28


 * 1) German orthography
 * 2) Jokes about Scotland/Scottish People in the German Language
 * 3) Best textbook for beginner learning Italian?
 * 4) Electronic comparison of pronounciation
 * 5) Mandarin and Rosetta Stone
 * 6) Which versus who
 * 7) Nicknames in the English language

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 29


 * 1) English to Chinese translation (simplified and wade giles please, pinyin could help) (Mandarin & Cantonese please)
 * 2) Is there a test to determine the number of words in your vocabulary?
 * 3) Delta
 * 4) Translations
 * 5) Unions et descendance
 * 6) Rothschild
 * 7) Will Cantonese go extinct eventually?
 * 8) question plus a plea

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 30


 * 1) "Grappling" as an adjective
 * 2) Norwegian translation requested
 * 3) Non-Profit Organization
 * 4) Basic phrases in Irish
 * 5) "Ellipses" in writing
 * 6) Is there a word for this?
 * 7) Difference between an aim and an objective
 * 8) Need a word
 * 9) Capitalization
 * 10) Cryptic Crossword Clues

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 31


 * 1) College vs. University
 * 2) Translation please
 * 3) Fly/Fliege
 * 4) english-chinese
 * 5) German word
 * 6) "The bigger ___, the smaller ___" is IS necessary?
 * 7) What's better: "a/the cow of David", or: "a/the cow of David's" ?
 * 8) Aroud the corner
 * 9) "Lisses"