Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2014

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 1


 * 1) Club soda
 * 2) Nominalization of comparisons in English
 * 3) Can one say: (a few) "flowers of senecio" in one word? or "flowers of groundsel" in one word?
 * 4) Ye Olde English

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 2


 * 1) What is/are the Spanish term(s) for "UFO"?
 * 2) Different uses of the word pretty
 * 3) What is the author alluding to by "the footballer"
 * 4) Verb tense question
 * 5) Need a name for a Spanish warship.

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 3


 * 1) Karl Friedrich Ludwig von Watzdorf
 * 2) Grand fromage

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 4


 * 1) Paradox
 * 2) Adverbs that are not
 * 3) Renaissance boy
 * 4) 'Two and a half times smaller'
 * 5) 'Two times bigger!'

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 5


 * 1) Chinese: Requests for translations of short content
 * 2) deafening self-consciousness
 * 3) Is it appropriate to use "ecclesiastical" as a synonym for "religious"?

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 6


 * 1) It's literally the antonym of itself.
 * 2) Loan collection

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 7


 * 1) Ecclesiastes 9:11
 * 2) Any idea what this means?
 * 3) lever themselves upward
 * 4) Japanese words for video, clip, motion picture, etc.

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 8


 * 1) The word "heavy" in air traffic controller lingo
 * 2) under a sky of white
 * 3) Looking after their environments
 * 4) Japanese Expression For.....

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 9


 * 1) Arabic al/el
 * 2) chalkies
 * 3) Now  you can’t get enough of it
 * 4) Skiprope and Hopscotch
 * 5) true
 * 6) resemblances ceased and girls
 * 7) Lifestyle Consutants(Every Child Matters)
 * 8) Odd use of capitalization in the United States Constitution

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 10


 * 1) at every point
 * 2) British English in the '40s
 * 3) Latin translation

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 11


 * 1) French o'clock
 * 2) Voiceless lateral fricative [ ɬ ] vs approximant [ l̥ ]
 * 3) Original Greek for  "hope...is a waking dream"
 * 4) Serial comma - why no semi-colons?

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 12


 * 1) "Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word"

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 14


 * 1) Banned keywords on Chinese Internet/servers
 * 2) "Hard cheese"
 * 3) Spanish

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 15


 * 1) "The only type of person I hold no remorse for is one given a miracle but who refuses to take advantage of it."
 * 2) "have been" vs. "have"

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 16


 * 1) Subject-verb agreement in en-gb

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 17


 * 1) Become overrun
 * 2) particular type of question
 * 3) Democolacs
 * 4) Old English Adjectives as substantives
 * 5) Is there a word in English for this?
 * 6) 3rd-person singulars of "to degas" and "to diminuendo"?
 * 7) Subtitles for people speaking in English

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 18


 * 1) Proper-hyphen-ation
 * 2) zero/O

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 19


 * 1) Chinese request: MH370
 * 2) Grammar Correction

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 20


 * 1) Theravada Buddhists: Pali or Sanskrit?
 * 2) Abbreviation "Ag" in German place names
 * 3) Pronunciation of Greek surname
 * 4) comma question on names
 * 5) Meaning of leporello in Italian

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 21


 * 1) Cryptic Pregnancy in Chinese
 * 2) What was that again?
 * 3) How did the Iago Sparrow get that name?
 * 4) Translation of Shakespeare's date of death
 * 5) Alphabetical order
 * 6) A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon, you're talking real money

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 22


 * 1) Capitalization for officeholders
 * 2) Period placement for quotation at end of sentence
 * 3) neutral or beneficial
 * 4) what did disco mean in the 19th century?

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 23


 * 1) German Phrase
 * 2) "Community driven development" vs "Community-driven development"

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 24


 * 1) Económcia (Spanish spelling)
 * 2) Adjectives based on English names?
 * 3) Voiced consonants and devoicing

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 25


 * 1) Big what?
 * 2) quasi-demiurgic
 * 3) Sequence of multiple adjectives in English
 * 4) What are gunsails?
 * 5) French doctor needed on the Chateau de la Croë
 * 6) Word definition

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 26


 * 1) Introducing oneself as "Myself [insert name here]"
 * 2) Greenhalgh
 * 3) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 27


 * 1) hindi translation
 * 2) Expressing parents and grown children living together?

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 28


 * 1) General term for Uncle Tom ?
 * 2) Why do synonyms exist?

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 29

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= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 31