Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2010

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 1


 * 1) Pronounciation
 * 2) Cognate
 * 3) Looking for a word
 * 4) Vietnamese help
 * 5) Pronunciation of Poston (Japanese American internment camp)
 * 6) Mail Administrator's grasp of English, or mine?
 * 7) discovery of biblical greek
 * 8) addressing and closing a letter to a British ambassador in another country?
 * 9) Japanese sounds

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 2


 * 1) French word for Danish (food)
 * 2) Sixties Slang
 * 3) Help me correct this phrases please.
 * 4) Name for self-multilation

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 3


 * 1) counter-clerks
 * 2) latin word order for the perfect passive
 * 3) What do these mean?

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 4


 * 1) is there an adjective that means 'kookaburralike'?
 * 2) Hebrew help
 * 3) Possessive for proper noun ending in "s"
 * 4) Verb tense

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 5


 * 1) Kanji variants
 * 2) "Not to be mistaken as..."
 * 3) Chinese expression
 * 4) Podestà
 * 5) Origin of the word "Cover"
 * 6) When did  the "thou", "thy" begin diseppearing?
 * 7) Chinese-English chapter translation
 * 8) Azcrostic?

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 6


 * 1) Chinese negation of 吃
 * 2) Ending sentence with ellipses in a quotation
 * 3) I would have thought
 * 4) Anti-shadow?

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 7


 * 1) Spanish leismo
 * 2) Gaelic translation
 * 3) Font on part of US dollar
 * 4) Words from comics and cartoons.
 * 5) Why not just one language?
 * 6) Dam/Damn

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 8


 * 1) Development of German Sibilants
 * 2) "Linguistic memory"?
 * 3) Litfaßsäule
 * 4) How long is a moment?
 * 5) use of commas
 * 6) Can I victimise Margaret Thatcher?

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 9


 * 1) Identification of Language in a Song
 * 2) Nihongo translation please... ^_^
 * 3) -l (at the end of a word) in English, Spanish and Catalan
 * 4) who or whom
 * 5) There are any constructed language like math?
 * 6) Ham and eggs in old American movies
 * 7) Used to / use to
 * 8) Off or from

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 10


 * 1) Subject
 * 2) Huckabee etymology
 * 3) Etymological dictionary
 * 4) "a ma vie de coeur entier"
 * 5) Killing
 * 6) Personal pronouns used for organisations
 * 7) Japanese: pronunciation of を and お
 * 8) How did synthetic/polysynthetic/agglutinative languages originate in the first place?
 * 9) Plural of paterfamilias
 * 10) take out procession

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 11


 * 1) Nihongo translation again! (Sorry :3)
 * 2) What was the Book called, and who wrote it ?
 * 3) Czech “ř”
 * 4) Liu Xiaobo ITN
 * 5) Ram Khamhaeng or Ramkhamhaeng?
 * 6) Someone – They
 * 7) Grammar

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 12


 * 1) Plural of zero
 * 2) How to pronounce...
 * 3) 'Inside of'
 * 4) Variety-speak

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 13


 * 1) You had better/best read this question
 * 2) Punctuation
 * 3) Silver Hell
 * 4) Past tense of "disposition"
 * 5) from French / Check-language

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 14


 * 1) tin can despots, and tin can regimes
 * 2) "Semper Eadem"?
 * 3) Rule of inflection of English adjectives derived from participles.
 * 4) Japanese numbers
 * 5) Is mad offensive?

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 15


 * 1) Words coined by children
 * 2) Wikileaks U.S. Embassy "Cables"
 * 3) Intonation
 * 4) Nasal "yes" by African-Americans
 * 5) Apprehension
 * 6) Old English word definition

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 16


 * 1) Help with Japanese needed - image description
 * 2) Spanish translation help
 * 3) Hell's Kitchen
 * 4) Unclear Hanzi on a 19th century Chinese hell scroll
 * 5) Passé simple

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 17


 * 1) Ahorita
 * 2) A question for Sanskrit afficionados
 * 3) Improving my English - simple question, should i use 'shot in', 'broke in' or something else ?
 * 4) French grammar question
 * 5) Eponymous adjectives, English monarchy
 * 6) Quick Portuguese translation for a Wikipedia article

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 18


 * 1) Ram Khamhaeng or Ramkhamhaeng?
 * 2) English Malayalam dictionary software
 * 3) Comparisons of importance
 * 4) 死ンドラー

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 19


 * 1) The Tsars spoke French?
 * 2) Please could someone check these changes to the Sanskrit
 * 3) Usage of the word shtick

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 20


 * 1) The English Malayalam dictionary software - Free down load

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 21


 * 1) Japanese video game cut scene
 * 2) I want to be....
 * 3) Words for...
 * 4) Croatian vs. Polish
 * 5) British collective nouns

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 22


 * 1) Latin translation
 * 2) German for airport
 * 3) How to formulate this seemingly easy, yet for me not easy sentence?
 * 4) Anti-money laundering
 * 5) Let's see if we can't get to the bottom of redundant negatives

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 23


 * 1) Long time no see, 好久不见
 * 2) Where could I evaluate my English vocabulary on a Website ?
 * 3) ...too or ..., too

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 24


 * 1) Time Travel - How far back could I go before I had serious problems communicating?
 * 2) Racism
 * 3) Meaning of verb "rescató"

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 25


 * 1) Pinyin for 方滨兴?

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 26


 * 1) Spanish for (same-sex) partner
 * 2) French translation
 * 3) Wrong end of the stick - origin?
 * 4) hard-edged
 * 5) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 27


 * 1) Irish pronunciation of the letter "A"
 * 2) Latin
 * 3) Make out
 * 4) Chinese questions
 * 5) dispense

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 28


 * 1) Russian lettering
 * 2) Slang from a BBC television show
 * 3) What language is that? BEWARE POSSIBLE MALWARE LINK
 * 4) near and hear

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 29


 * 1) Japanese video game screenshot
 * 2) Russian translation
 * 3) Pedagogs and Teachers
 * 4) Latin text on Spinoza's tomb
 * 5) "open source license" or "open-source license"?
 * 6) "A haircut you can set your watch to"
 * 7) which language is this
 * 8) Tamil language translation
 * 9) Wossname, narmean?
 * 10) Picking up Latin again
 * 11) "From the get-go"
 * 12) downloading books
 * 13) Writing Discovered or Invented
 * 14) correct form

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 30


 * 1) French direct objects
 * 2) French question!
 * 3) "Nothing happen unless first a dream"

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 31


 * 1) Characters and caricatures
 * 2) Latin pronunciation
 * 3) French Verb