Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2015

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 1


 * 1) Dynamics vs. tempo
 * 2) Old vs. young and new
 * 3) Profundicate
 * 4) Linguistic skeuomorphism
 * 5) Horrible posh accent

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 2


 * 1) "Age" versus "aged"
 * 2) What do I call her?

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 3


 * 1) odd usage of the phrase 'as well'
 * 2) "In all those fields, supportive evidence were to be found/ were found/ have been found".
 * 3) "your first parlay"
 * 4) MS Word changed short hyphen to long hyphen
 * 5) Word for married woman's male sex partner outside of marriage?

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 4


 * 1) corrective discipline
 * 2) "Escalation" in management
 * 3) Kruti Dev Font Licensing
 * 4) Subjunctive
 * 5) Ancient Egyptian pronounciation
 * 6) Traps in action

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 5


 * 1) "The Assyrian", "The Hun", etc

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 6


 * 1) "Canadian-based" or "Canada-based"?
 * 2) present perfect tense
 * 3) Apostrophe s
 * 4) Curse words against the Virgin Mary in English?

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 7


 * 1) Chinese exonym for the American continent
 * 2) Luau in British English

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 8


 * 1) Honesty demands that...
 * 2) English transcription

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 9


 * 1) Demonym - Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, Scotsman, etc.
 * 2) How is "Atlas V" pronounced predominantly in the Space Community?
 * 3) Case Assignment in Fused Relatives Cross-Linguistically

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 10


 * 1) Bad, wicked, decadent - words with definitions and uses that mean the opposite of the primary definition
 * 2) etymology of 'normal' as related to army study in Tennessee circa 1913-15
 * 3) The government will announce today ...

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 11


 * 1) Japanese help: Students at the Japanese School of Istanbul

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 12


 * 1) multiscript collaboration about a thusand year old perfect magic square written in :en:Gurmukhi numerals

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 14


 * 1) "Ya ponyo"
 * 2) Los Angeles abbreviation

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 15


 * 1) What is the correct wording? Me or I?
 * 2) By default

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 16


 * 1) Genitive apostrophe

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 18


 * 1) Steve Jobs and Apple

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 19


 * 1) Korean: "노닐던"
 * 2) Need help deciphering banking jargon

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 20


 * 1) Mongolian pronunciation of Оюу Толгой
 * 2) "Good people" just mean "citizens"?
 * 3) Nigerian English
 * 4) Pun lost in translation in "Danger: Diabolik"?

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 21


 * 1) Elder / Eldest / Older / Oldest

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 22


 * 1) What is the correct wording? Me or I?
 * 2) How to translate this phrase into Latin?

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 23


 * 1) Can write and read but can't speak the language

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 24


 * 1) Compare: and vs with
 * 2) "Dog" and "nine"
 * 3) Term for choosing a term that sounds more palatable to an audience?

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 25


 * 1) Any ambiguity in "Have you lived in the UK for 5 years ... ?"  ?
 * 2) Soft sign and palatalisation in Russian
 * 3) Peggy is diminutive of Margaret?
 * 4) Slovenian question
 * 5) replacing a word with its initial (e.g. "F word")
 * 6) Request for translation from Spanish

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 26


 * 1) Linguistic history of China

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 29


 * 1) Out-and-out
 * 2) Transliteration of French into Hebrew

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 30


 * 1) Life hack?

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 31


 * 1) Antiquated Superlatives for Victorian-style poster.
 * 2) How to write a numerical expression in words