Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2017

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 * 1) Apartments

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 2


 * 1) I'm looking for an adjective:
 * 2) Tamara de Lempicka: her surname as pronounced in France and America

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 3


 * 1) I need another word for "nontrivial", in the expression "nontrivial assumption".
 * 2) Scatty (Irish?)
 * 3) Do animated emojis improve consistency of interpretations?

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 4


 * 1) ¿Investigador o auxiliar de investigación?
 * 2) Typing one space or two?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 5


 * 1) Hard or hardly??

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 7


 * 1) Why did people historically use so many fancy vocabulary terms and long sentences?

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 8


 * 1) How much of Esperanto was created by Zamenhof

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 9


 * 1) Is it 42nd or 42d??
 * 2) North Korea  BEST NOT make any more threats

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 10


 * 1) Comma after "in other instances"

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 11


 * 1) Is a heifer a nulliparous cow or virgin cow?

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 12


 * 1) "Inuit" in Inuktitut

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 13


 * 1) Looking for a word in Arabic
 * 2) 40 in Russian

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 14


 * 1) Order: However

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 16


 * 1) Help break up a very long sentence

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 17


 * 1) Yankee go home? Or Yankees go home?

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 18


 * 1) Which one has a negative connotation - heathen or pagan?
 * 2) Translation from German wanted

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 19


 * 1) vox populi vs. voci populi
 * 2) at vs for
 * 3) Sábado and Saturday
 * 4) "Insanitary" vs "unsanitary"

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 20


 * 1) ESL accreditation group for China?
 * 2) German town - Ölper or Oelper?

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 21


 * 1) Why do Australians say "Coo-ee?"

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 22


 * 1) Origin of "the cucumbers of peace"
 * 2) French lyrics (paroles de chanson) of three French songs
 * 3) What does  stand for?

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 23


 * 1) ¢ vs ⌀
 * 2) How to create a new article in another language

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 24


 * 1) Languages easiest to learn for English-Chinese bilingual native speakers?
 * 2) Latin. Does anybody here understand Latin well?
 * 3) Is it rude to say "bon appetit" to an actual French person?

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 25


 * 1) DOP

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 28


 * 1) About Draft:Where are my friends (nursery rhyme)
 * 2) Do right-to-left languages make writing easier for left-handers?
 * 3) Why do we have the letter X despite it not having a special sound??
 * 4) Chinese characters
 * 5) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 28#What_kind_of_.28British.3F.29_accent_is_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.kan.org.il.2FProgram.2F.3FcatId.3D1111_this.5D.3F|What kind of (British?) accent is this?]]

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 29


 * 1) Does philo- words automatically mean a person is not part of the thing but "loves" it as an outsider?
 * 2) Have, Haber, Happening

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 30


 * 1) Þa wealas ne cwǽdon on Lǽdene sprǽce [Why do the Welsh traditionally speak a Celtic language?]
 * 2) Bergensk?
 * 3) Sasuke Uchiha