Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2007

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 1


 * 1) praise words
 * 2) English accent in other languages
 * 3) How you talk to people

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 2


 * 1) The 5 languages closest to English
 * 2) Most 'neutral' accent?
 * 3) Actors reproducing English language dialects/accents from across the Atlantic (or Pacific)
 * 4) American vs British

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 3


 * 1) german translation q
 * 2) Why is abbreviation such a long word?
 * 3) Latin translation, please

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 4


 * 1) Pants
 * 2) I would rather you answer this question correctly
 * 3) UN Resolutions in English
 * 4) Shorthand?
 * 5) attributable
 * 6) Latinise this title please?
 * 7) Wash your mouth out!

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 5


 * 1) Encyclopedic Value
 * 2) English: adjectives: people:
 * 3) Regarding the phrase "in which"
 * 4) acronyms
 * 5) Organic and non-organic military and police ?
 * 6) Is it condescending to use the phrase: "at any rate"?
 * 7) Beowulf
 * 8) Word conveyor?

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 6


 * 1) failure

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 7


 * 1) Chinese characters
 * 2) Is there a culture where it is ordinary for people to know 5 languages?
 * 3) Austrian postal service slogan
 * 4) Query about Flemish
 * 5) Cunning linguists required
 * 6) origin of the phrase "the whole nine yards" 24.233.154.150 (talk) 23:28, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 8


 * 1) "payed out"?
 * 2) To perfect in French
 * 3) Pidgin

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 9


 * 1) Closed word classes
 * 2) Need catchy title for English report

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 10


 * 1) Pronounce this way... or...
 * 2) Comma Use
 * 3) Run like a welshman
 * 4) Proper case for "post scriptum"

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 11


 * 1) Heraldry
 * 2) Epithets / Epithet-names
 * 3) from Latin
 * 4) Will you help my son and I/me solve the problem of the useage of the words "I/me"?
 * 5) "apotheosis"

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 12


 * 1) A general comment and suggestion
 * 2) Letter head
 * 3) Japanese help
 * 4) Gorge / Ravine / Rift / Canyon etc.
 * 5) What gets exhumed?
 * 6) Jaettu maa

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 13


 * 1) Poetry Punctuation
 * 2) Looking for a word meaning "devoid of authority."
 * 3) Vocab Qeustion
 * 4) Using multiple titles for names

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 14


 * 1) Help creating page in Hebrew
 * 2) Italics
 * 3) Eclampsia
 * 4) Epi-something
 * 5) Ich fing Feuer

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 15


 * 1) œ
 * 2) Terms 'financially established" "financially healthy"
 * 3) presence of digraphs cs and gs in Latin
 * 4) Reduced use of case endings, Russian
 * 5) Addressing a female priest
 * 6) Entrepreneurs and polyglots
 * 7) Proper use of semi-colon?

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 16


 * 1) Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 16
 * 2) Mandarin Immersion Programs
 * 3) Pronounciation of Gisele Bündchen
 * 4) Translation needed of Inscription to the sacrifice of the Swiss Guard
 * 5) Usefulness of the Chinese writing system

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 17


 * 1) Hindi and Tamil
 * 2) Translation, Please
 * 3) Hebrew use of the words "hummus" and "za'atar"
 * 4) Continuation of my prev. question
 * 5) Hardest language
 * 6) at/in usage in this sentence
 * 7) Bestevend?
 * 8) How much does morpheme:syllable ratio vary, why, and with what result?
 * 9) Book Critique Help
 * 10) meaning of a Welsh word
 * 11) LAKE

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 18


 * 1) Gender proportions
 * 2) Japanese Names
 * 3) Examples of Conflict/Irony in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
 * 4) Person who knows the most languages
 * 5) Turkish and Arabic
 * 6) What language can communicate the most information, while using the least amount of ink?
 * 7) Verb tense
 * 8) Name for terms that are clarifying sub-classes of themselves
 * 9) Guten Tag (German adjective endings)

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 19


 * 1) A name for this use of language?
 * 2) Translation of Columbus monogram

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 20


 * 1) Verb tense follow-up
 * 2) What does Jahasra mean?
 * 3) Malt liquor in Dickens
 * 4) even used to mean the same
 * 5) suo moto
 * 6) Analogies
 * 7) WORDS WRITTEN IN MOSAIC?
 * 8) vide
 * 9) Association Football or Association football or association football?
 * 10) Stowd / Stoud
 * 11) what is the word for this
 * 12) Two words for Spanish

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 21


 * 1) French sailor
 * 2) Requesting translation of Spanish sentence
 * 3) counterpart of “blow job” for women

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 22


 * 1) spanish english  translation
 * 2) Japanese translation
 * 3) Applied foreign languages vs. foreign languages

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 23


 * 1) IPA / Phonetic Spelling
 * 2) Goldfish
 * 3) components of verbs
 * 4) "Why" in German

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 24


 * 1) up to at least
 * 2) Macbeth

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 25


 * 1) Season's Greetings

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 26


 * 1) Microsoft Visio: Pronunciation?
 * 2) backed with (...) up vs. backed up with
 * 3) "Vague"

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 27


 * 1) What language is this?
 * 2) Form of exclamation
 * 3) -ity/-ness
 * 4) what is the sentence pattern?
 * 5) Russian spelling

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 28


 * 1) Bokeboke = ?
 * 2) Parts of speech
 * 3) Latin
 * 4) Hindi and Sanskrit

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 29


 * 1) Madayan
 * 2) Non-Israeli Jews and the Hebrew Language

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 30


 * 1) What is "Cholegague"?
 * 2) More Cyrillic transliteration

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 31


 * 1) Happy New Year in Japanese