Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2008

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 1


 * 1) translation from latin to english
 * 2) question about the sentence 這是食物嗎？ 是的，它是.
 * 3) Learn Russian to read chess books
 * 4) -al
 * 5) Mandarin Chinese 个: gè vs. ge
 * 6) Confusion on Mandarin Chinese Prepositions
 * 7) How come we cannot make a page about ourselves.

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 2


 * 1) Singular or plural?
 * 2) Spanish: Regional tú and usted
 * 3) izquierda
 * 4) Written forms of address in Catalan
 * 5) Korean language readers needed
 * 6) Widow/widower

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 3


 * 1) "You betcha"
 * 2) "Woman" as adjective
 * 3) Dutch names

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 4


 * 1) question (Word for someone who believes in equal opportunity)
 * 2) Literal meaning and ethymology of "douchebag"
 * 3) "Untenability"
 * 4) Syllabic sonorants
 * 5) Which kanji for Ryko?
 * 6) On what date does a murder "occur"?

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 5


 * 1) African Americans
 * 2) "Staving off the prospect of an imminent change"
 * 3) Synonym for collateral damage
 * 4) 'Junk' as male genitals?

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 6


 * 1) "Sold to American." Auction chant
 * 2) Name for Coast Guard Servicemember
 * 3) Books of the Bible
 * 4) French-English/French-French dictionaries
 * 5) Run-on sentence help
 * 6) Part of speech

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 7


 * 1) Polish municipal post?
 * 2) WHAT KIND OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE IS THIS?
 * 3) COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
 * 4) improv
 * 5) a word
 * 6) Question about "colo(u)ris/ze"

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 8


 * 1) -ographer
 * 2) Neighborhood fire?
 * 3) Time
 * 4) Give, seen, came and done as past tense variants
 * 5) Could anyone identify the script
 * 6) Speechreading, Deaf culture, and children
 * 7) Shimmer me Timbers

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 9


 * 1) French grammar
 * 2) Ration
 * 3) Slave in Haitian Creole
 * 4) Number of syllables
 * 5) Narrative Poetry and the Real World
 * 6) A little vocabulary help

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 10


 * 1) Fraise and Framboise
 * 2) Latin translation request
 * 3) Lipreading
 * 4) How to say this word "Lidgbird"?
 * 5) Looking for a useful audio-guide on accents/dialects from Great Britain and Ireland
 * 6) Filipino question
 * 7) terms

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 11


 * 1) Spanish translation
 * 2) Difference between "buy" and "purchase"

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 12


 * 1) Turkey (the bird) in Turkish?
 * 2) The word 'cheesy'
 * 3) Is 'sexed' a verb when refering to gender indentification?

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 13


 * 1) Is Juvatave a word?
 * 2) Deliberate misspellings
 * 3) Trying to remember phrase meaning "willing domination by military"
 * 4) Is this sentence grammatically correct?
 * 5) Study or studying?
 * 6) Priceless

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 14


 * 1) Neo (conlang) materials
 * 2) pharses
 * 3) English to Latin translation request
 * 4) I got my mojo working
 * 5) Chinese measure words for candy, money, coffee, and food.

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 15


 * 1) krɪst naˈkoːra guˈsɔ
 * 2) Use of "the" at the delicatessen
 * 3) Viva la Vida
 * 4) Referring to a group of people from Turkey.

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 16


 * 1) Horse meat
 * 2) French question
 * 3) Russian (Cyrillic) surname suffix in English transliteration
 * 4) German Grammar
 * 5) Surname pronunciation
 * 6) Russian for lazy
 * 7) Yemen Ellerinde Veysel Karani (English)

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 17


 * 1) Language reform
 * 2) grammar question - it's a simple one so please answer me quickly!!!!!!
 * 3) IS IT RIGHT TO PUT A COMMA BEFORE A SUBORDINATE CONJUNCTION?
 * 4) Dutch or Afrikaans?
 * 5) Souchon
 * 6) Number of English sentences
 * 7) The apparent rank of Borisch Kommendant in World in Conflict
 * 8) Vetula sed(?) Noli Picare... Is this correct Latin?
 * 9) Russian: "corashon"

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 18


 * 1) German sentence for translation
 * 2) Plural of "index"

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 19


 * 1) If I don't see you beforehand ...
 * 2) Twins' names
 * 3) Is a pair or a flock an it or a they?
 * 4) "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
 * 5) English language
 * 6) Brazil= Belgium in India?
 * 7) latin hospes meaning both guest and host
 * 8) Learning
 * 9) Cornish translation
 * 10) What is the etymology of the phrase "A Day in the Life"?
 * 11) mapudungun wikipedia
 * 12) Korean language

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 20


 * 1) Misinterpreted words
 * 2) Balls of brass
 * 3) The word "fuck" in 1800's American west..
 * 4) phraseology
 * 5) chetedouyi
 * 6) What does the "LIO" prefix mean in the scientific name of "Pocket Mice"?
 * 7) Names of Ruthenian political parties
 * 8) Birth registry book

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 21


 * 1) Horse metaphors
 * 2) German and Russian assistance
 * 3) Opposite [of language attrition]?

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 22


 * 1) A good way to learn to write Korean?
 * 2) Help needed with verification using RS in Italian
 * 3) Billigen Kieker ("Das Bild Lebt!")
 * 4) Numbers in a Sentence

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 23


 * 1) One name
 * 2) "Awful" can mean "Chic"?
 * 3) Latin expert needed
 * 4) A translation from Dutch
 * 5) How many languages do you need to know to be able to speak to 50% of the world?
 * 6) Apostrophe usage
 * 7) 'Should' or 'would'?

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 24


 * 1) Merry Christmas
 * 2) Euphemisms
 * 3) Word meaning
 * 4) French sentence
 * 5) Type of idiom
 * 6) American english vowels

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 25


 * 1) Chroma Zone
 * 2) Mistranslated donation remark

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 26


 * 1) Are there words in other languages that cannot be translated into english?
 * 2) Japanese translation request
 * 3) January 1 or 1 January
 * 4) Correct?

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 27


 * 1) Noun for "serious"
 * 2) "Nuit blanche" = sleepless vs. night-for-day?
 * 3) What does it mean if someone (not me) is accused of having a 'bovine' attitude?
 * 4) SPIN or SPA questioning techniques
 * 5) English in Indian daily life
 * 6) Comma or semicolon.  Which is more correct...

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 28


 * 1) Avo=?
 * 2) Terms of reference
 * 3) Premodern English
 * 4) Latin question
 * 5) Japanese
 * 6) "want" and "need"
 * 7) Pronounce Holguín, a Cuban city

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 29


 * 1) Stick in the mud
 * 2) Deconjuration or disconjuration
 * 3) As-salaamu alaykum
 * 4) Period past abbreviations

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 30


 * 1) Abbreviation
 * 2) Yucatan
 * 3) Benin and Gabon
 * 4) Sloppy Writing by Einstein and Szilárd?
 * 5) Web language conventions?

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 31


 * 1) grammer gone missing went missing right or wrong
 * 2) Pronoun
 * 3) Evolution of English
 * 4) Model of "broken" English in Hollywood movies
 * 5) English to German
 * 6) With + -ing
 * 7) "On accident" more than just a malaprop of "by accident"?