Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2010

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 1


 * 1) Kite runner
 * 2) Translation of a photo
 * 3) Japanese trailer video
 * 4) Filetsteak
 * 5) Japanese language help for BLP prod

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 2


 * 1) French construction: "le (singular noun) est des plus (plural adjective)"
 * 2) Homophonic Translation
 * 3) Translate a single German sentence, please
 * 4) Latin phrase translation

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 3


 * 1) Illegitimate bastard
 * 2) Earliest acronym?
 * 3) Article Name - Chinese/Japanese Translation

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 4


 * 1) Japanese translation
 * 2) French: -ement vs. -ant endings
 * 3) Chouli
 * 4) Latin company motto
 * 5) Archaic Dutch declension

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 5


 * 1) comment dit-on...?
 * 2) Hagrid's accent
 * 3) Pronunciation of Lithuanian surname
 * 4) Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents
 * 5) Podesay
 * 6) Gesta Herwardi or De Gestis Herwardi Saxonis
 * 7) hunting animals to extinction.
 * 8) Ancient writing in Britain
 * 9) Caption translation for an image
 * 10) Daft as a brush?

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 6


 * 1) Double adjectives following "a pair of"
 * 2) Bringing a language back from extinction
 * 3) Etymology of Yugoslavia
 * 4) Japanese
 * 5) "oly gyenge jellem, hogy mindent elkölt, az utolsó fillérig"
 * 6) Japanese help
 * 7) "The couple is" or "the couple are"...

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 7


 * 1) Every other odd item in a set: part of speech?
 * 2) There's a bad pun in here ... somewhere ... I think ...
 * 3) Behaviour
 * 4) Translation from Japanese
 * 5) Bravery vs courage
 * 6) Help coming up with a short phrase for a company value?

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 8


 * 1) Chinese coiffure or turban
 * 2) Number of phonemes
 * 3) "Peelers"
 * 4) Belonging to someone else
 * 5) Incomprehensible stew
 * 6) Bad vs. Good words query
 * 7) Seyran (name)
 * 8) Whens

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 9


 * 1) That  … and which
 * 2) Ya
 * 3) zh:官商勾結
 * 4) 1. Curb or kerb?
 * 5) Ovid
 * 6) A Chinese ingredient
 * 7) definition and usage of indmerence
 * 8) Question about the Chinese character 必.
 * 9) "The La Tène culture" or just "La Tène culture"?

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 10


 * 1) Japanese honorifics and military language
 * 2) Chinese words for grains
 * 3) Looking for a quote, possibly by Sun Tzu
 * 4) Syntax of "Doctor Livingston, I presume?"
 * 5) Refining
 * 6) Proper use of the English subjunctive?  (example)
 * 7) Polish name of state agency
 * 8) Arabic name of the state agency

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 11


 * 1) The origin and myth of the 'dude' language use

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 12


 * 1) Pronunciation of "anti" and "semi"
 * 2) Stefan Zweig

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 13


 * 1) 𣲙
 * 2) Fit or fitted in American english
 * 3) English English
 * 4) Nigerien/Nigerian pronunciation differences in American English
 * 5) Chinese transcription and translation

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 14


 * 1) Subjunctive in English
 * 2) Use of "recently" to refer to a past time period
 * 3) Do the following two sentences differ in meaning?
 * 4) How to say "It's what he's been searching for." in French

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 15


 * 1) Baidu
 * 2) German translation
 * 3) Politeness: Spanish, and more

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 16


 * 1) Fraudsters in American English?
 * 2) French uvular 'R'
 * 3) Avatar Chinese characters meaning
 * 4) French meaning
 * 5) Come off it!
 * 6) misc

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 17


 * 1) Pronunciation of nonexistent words
 * 2) Flink
 * 3) A vs. E
 * 4) Translatish
 * 5) License template help needed in Spanish and Polish
 * 6) "Read by anyone without"

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 18


 * 1) Epenthetic /g/ in Spanish
 * 2) Unclear Ending to Short Story
 * 3) Translation
 * 4) What is the word that means "parent of a deceased child or offspring"?
 * 5) Spanish
 * 6) Linguistics question
 * 7) "Attorneys General"

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 19


 * 1) Viewing the Gothic Language Wikipedia
 * 2) Trying to figure out which Greek characters these are
 * 3) Hebrew Book
 * 4) Two questions
 * 5) Space or no space after ( and before )
 * 6) Romanian
 * 7) Pinch/grain of salt
 * 8) what's the  name for this fallacy?
 * 9) Chinese name

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 20


 * 1) how doers austin powers sound to a britihs person?
 * 2) Lao (Laosian) language
 * 3) Jingle Palace
 * 4) More chinese -translation
 * 5) Grammatical query
 * 6) Deragatory modifiers

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 21


 * 1) Expression
 * 2) By hook or by crook
 * 3) Caïus
 * 4) Brandy

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 22


 * 1) Japanese translation
 * 2) Is there a name for this syntax problem?
 * 3) Icelandic /g+j/, /k+j/ across morpheme boundaries
 * 4) Languistic Map
 * 5) Saving Fingering from the English Language
 * 6) A word of Greek

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 23


 * 1) Article title
 * 2) One year vacation
 * 3) Spanish - native meaning of "Retales"

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 24


 * 1) Who is good at anagrams
 * 2) "The synthetic solid was ground and sieved through 100 mesh for subsequent use."
 * 3) French pronunciation
 * 4) "Du bist der Star"
 * 5) Languages written without diacritics
 * 6) Take a close one
 * 7) Difference between the Adessive and Superessive case
 * 8) Gelert

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 25


 * 1) W
 * 2) Azalai
 * 3) Research on the language used on 3 stamps
 * 4) Beethoven's "ingharese"
 * 5) The other side of betrayal?
 * 6) et al. and etc.
 * 7) A term to call a child of a person who later enters into a new marriage with another
 * 8) "Barbecue" in Hawaiian?
 * 9) programming code
 * 10) i can't place a word, please inform me what it is
 * 11) flap

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 26


 * 1) I'm all right, Jack
 * 2) Creole Languages
 * 3) Vol-au-vent
 * 4) Is "dwarven" a proper adjective to use to describe someone with dwarfism?
 * 5) Italian word
 * 6) Why do dwarves have Scottish accents?

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 27


 * 1) Negative:Negation::Positive:??
 * 2) Encyclopaedia vs. Encyclopedia
 * 3) "Usual suspects" - meaning, origin of the term, Swedish translation
 * 4) Voices & morphosyntax
 * 5) How do the french...

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 28


 * 1) Simple past or pluperfect?
 * 2) Alternation

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 29


 * 1) What sound would you say cicadas make?
 * 2) "Sire" vs. "Your Majesty"
 * 3) girls
 * 4) French the odd one out?

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 30


 * 1) Chinese root
 * 2) Japanese translation help needed
 * 3) Is this an example of pathetic fallacy?
 * 4) United States presidential election, 2012
 * 5) Power is my mistress
 * 6) Boodah?
 * 7) Possessive reflexives

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 31


 * 1) Learning English
 * 2) Susan Howatch
 * 3) Laissez-passer in English
 * 4) "On pain of"
 * 5) Speaking to a point
 * 6) Motherboards and pigs
 * 7) Senostoma is in French...
 * 8) French country names
 * 9) Origin of the word "Dutch"
 * 10) Words for left and right in european languages
 * 11) Cadence?
 * 12) Spanish quirk