Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2012

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 1


 * 1) Hungarian Verbs
 * 2) "I love me" vs. "I love myself"
 * 3) Pronunciation of "k" in Swedish
 * 4) Is English losing the distinction between the nominative and the accusative?

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 2


 * 1) Siyahamba in German and Italian
 * 2) Refer oneself by given name

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 4


 * 1) spelling of '"sunami", sinami, sanami.  meaning a violent tidal wave found in news items last year.

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 5


 * 1) about wikipedia
 * 2) What do you call phonetic nativization of borrowed words?
 * 3) Pronunciation of "New Zealand"
 * 4) ik heb hem geslagen
 * 5) How Similar is Modern Greek to Ancient Greek?

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 6


 * 1) Half/full-assed question
 * 2) Cut in line, as opposed to "But In Line."
 * 3) whose communication is more crippled?
 * 4) tones in hist.ling.

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 7


 * 1) Grammar question about possessive case
 * 2) Chicago Style

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 9


 * 1) Noun cases

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 11


 * 1) Chinese help - 猿仙松林 or 松林猿仙?
 * 2) hairy yellow sparrow wasp
 * 3) Jamaican lingo
 * 4) Wikipedia changed to Simplified Chinese as the default of varieties of Chinese locales?

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 12


 * 1) Russian possessive adjective in -ina
 * 2) What does everyone say in this Fall of Gaddafi video?
 * 3) Nomenclature for a simulation typeface
 * 4) More about spänn/spenn
 * 5) Largest language without monolingual speakers?
 * 6) What is the pictured Aboriginal language?

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 13


 * 1) Correct pronoun
 * 2) "me and you" or "you and me"?

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 14


 * 1) German noun genders
 * 2) Origin of the 'try and do it' construction?
 * 3) Curious and suspicious adjectives
 * 4) past/passed its "best by" date?

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 15


 * 1) "Adepti...Regna Celestia potiti"
 * 2) Double posted

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 16


 * 1) New page in English
 * 2) Subjunctive case?
 * 3) Tankies
 * 4) Translation help
 * 5) place name pronunciation
 * 6) Swallow the old tongue
 * 7) Aspie in Spanish?

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 17


 * 1) 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺
 * 2) Prepositions
 * 3) Can "gutting" or "gutted" refer to road construction?
 * 4) Store "special", in Europe
 * 5) Do italian priests address all people as "tu", or is it just television?
 * 6) I find that term to be offensive
 * 7) Misaimed description
 * 8) Substratum in Swedish?

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 18


 * 1) Asterisks after a word
 * 2) Joke Name
 * 3) Newly invented spellings for children's names

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 19


 * 1) Sermilik Glacier and Sirmilik National Park
 * 2) Symbol

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 20


 * 1) chinese
 * 2) Follow-up on unusual children's names

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 21


 * 1) car insurance
 * 2) Chinese characters
 * 3) "Reverse Definition(?)"

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 23


 * 1) Is Japanese an Altaic Language
 * 2) Dr. Barnes' Eyemart Express
 * 3) Translation request

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 24


 * 1) zero article?
 * 2) Plot of Chinese movie
 * 3) "Ahom" in Assamese script
 * 4) How to pronounce inuktitut sounds (syllables) ᔨ, ᔩ (ji), ᔪ, ᔫ (ju), ᔭ and ᔮ (ja )?
 * 5) Confusing
 * 6) AAAT Speed index pronounciation

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 25


 * 1) Llama mama

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 26


 * 1) Classificaton of proto-languages

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 27


 * 1) Italian question
 * 2) "To google" or "to Google"?
 * 3) How to formulate a sourced lack of source?

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 28


 * 1) the phrase "You don't talk about anything"
 * 2) Latin translation needed
 * 3) Portuguese help re: :File:Af447diag.svg
 * 4) Navajo language

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 29


 * 1) Arabic song lyrics
 * 2) Which language?

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 30


 * 1) a or an for words starting with h
 * 2) Khud = ?
 * 3) Translation: German to English
 * 4) "Ni" vs "du" in Swedish

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 31


 * 1) synchronic differences in basic word order
 * 2) How can a sign language have local accents?