Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2011

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 1


 * 1) Spoken English
 * 2) Posh American accent?
 * 3) Spoonerism of “Fukushima”
 * 4) Pronunciation B vs M

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 2


 * 1) Japanese ヒゲくず
 * 2) Telugu help
 * 3) How do you pronounce Ken Kifer?
 * 4) Need help from Italian and Greek-fluent contributors

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 3


 * 1) Pronunciation

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 4


 * 1) Tenerifian Spanish
 * 2) "well up herself"
 * 3) meaning of a word

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 5


 * 1) (Turkish) question about address
 * 2) German: Pronunciation of clusters zsch and tzsch
 * 3) why do people from japan speak english which such thick accents

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 6


 * 1) The "Laotian Bird" Nock-ten
 * 2) The Languages of Madame de...
 * 3) Pegasus+Unicorn
 * 4) words that non-native speakers use but native speakers don't

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 7


 * 1) Japanese narration of Tsunami video
 * 2) May "Hot Bird" be translated into other languages?
 * 3) Azemi
 * 4) "The river"
 * 5) Questions or statements
 * 6) Spirit in the Sky
 * 7) Modulation in American accents
 * 8) Icelandic translation needed

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 8


 * 1) Homework questions
 * 2) he(r) hair would been on fire

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 9


 * 1) '...saying that the UK is policed "by consent".'
 * 2) Sound like Wallace and Gromit
 * 3) German possessive
 * 4) Urdu help

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 10


 * 1) 'hotel reservation OP'?
 * 2) Check the grammar in section of article
 * 3) Minor question
 * 4) What does "tolerasty" mean?
 * 5) Learning Italian for history research
 * 6) italiano
 * 7) Polishing up spelling

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 11


 * 1) Mouseover pop-up CHN-ENG translator for Internet Explorer?
 * 2) For common words in a proper noun, do you convert between American and British spellings?
 * 3) When are -tion and -ing nouns countable? What is the general rule?
 * 4) Royal warrant to or from or...?
 * 5) Italics in spoken words

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 12


 * 1) "murder with a deadly weapon"
 * 2) Correct English

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 13


 * 1) Why don't the Chinese just use pinyin for writing?
 * 2) Denisova hominin
 * 3) Hydro fields
 * 4) i (short e) versus ə (schwa) pronunciation

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 14


 * 1) "Texas" in Russian
 * 2) Do as emphasis
 * 3) Being a murder
 * 4) George Chakiris
 * 5) Grammar: United States debt-ceiling crisis
 * 6) French

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 15


 * 1) Sentence Breakdown
 * 2) gramatika e gjuhes shqipe
 * 3) EXPORT AND IMPORT - How freely can I use these words?
 * 4) Pronouncing "Respiratory"
 * 5) Old Church Slavonic vs Proto-Slavic

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 16


 * 1) Classification of 沐
 * 2) "except" vs. "except for"
 * 3) French video

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 17


 * 1) Acting as a Scribe
 * 2) Modern/Ancient Greek glottal stop
 * 3) 'an historic moment'
 * 4) followed by
 * 5) 'An herbaceous border'
 * 6) Identifying cursive kanji
 * 7) German book title translation
 * 8) Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 18


 * 1) German text tranlation
 * 2) Japanese: "have your cake and eat it too"
 * 3) Requesting meaning of Okinawan word
 * 4) Help in getting Chinese characters

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 19


 * 1) Plural of mention
 * 2) You go Glen Coco, from the film Mean Girls
 * 3) Spinning
 * 4) Translation English-->Russian: "Do it for her"
 * 5) Reverse definition dictionary/CoE
 * 6) "Meksika" / "Tekhas" - why not "Teksas" / "Mekhiko" ?
 * 7) Then for than

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 20


 * 1) Learning IPA
 * 2) Russian (actually Komi) place-name
 * 3) The airport
 * 4) "You are a little tiger, aren't you"
 * 5) What Kansan college offers online Japanese courses?
 * 6) Meaning of "Koyaanisqatsi"
 * 7) Lists of words with ʊ and ʌ

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 21


 * 1) 'Scale out-ability'
 * 2) Question: (what can replace "with" in this sentence?)
 * 3) The Most incomprehensible English Dialect

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 22


 * 1) Translation of French paragraph
 * 2) VCR & DVD commands in Spanish?
 * 3) Schnuffel/Schnüffler
 * 4) Eggs, microwaves and vegetables

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 23


 * 1) If wishes were horses ...
 * 2) IPA pronunciation
 * 3) Standard form
 * 4) 祖 and ワィ (Japanese)
 * 5) D-dropping
 * 6) Spelling of “magick”

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 24


 * 1) "Bad" Arabic Translation
 * 2) "Zum Eckel find' ich immer nur mich"
 * 3) German plural
 * 4) Translation from Korean
 * 5) Who/Whom in clauses
 * 6) Is "post-traumatic shock disorder" actually a real term?
 * 7) Plurals of -y surnames

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 25


 * 1) Did - didn't
 * 2) How do you pronounce Vančura
 * 3) What is a qualifying question?
 * 4) Chinese question about time
 * 5) Moral lessons

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 26


 * 1) Closest languages to English and French
 * 2) Word Referring To An Antique Item's Specific History
 * 3) If a girl finds a guy creepy, you tend to think:

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 27


 * 1) use of "submitted"
 * 2) arabic script
 * 3) Våran?

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 28


 * 1) Fargo?
 * 2) Tahitian pronounciation
 * 3) llama
 * 4) References – style variation and consistency
 * 5) Priority of agreement in French
 * 6) The strange things about chet (ח)

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 29


 * 1) Word selection
 * 2) symbols
 * 3) Context and content
 * 4) Serbian cartoon

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 30


 * 1) Why "Eastern seaboard" and not "East coast?"
 * 2) Georgian
 * 3) "Speaks to"
 * 4) Correct or incorrect?
 * 5) Meaning of mekonnen
 * 6) Peking

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 August 31


 * 1) i versus schwa in pronunciation in United States
 * 2) Hindi ज्ञ jñ