Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2012

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 1


 * 1) Ludwig Renn  a.k.a. "Poveda"
 * 2) the vs. an

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 2


 * 1) dual articles
 * 2) the meaning of "iactati aequore toto...
 * 3) Castilian and Latin

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 3


 * 1) Latin wikipedia
 * 2) Chinese word for "crisis"
 * 3) French translation
 * 4) Arabic help
 * 5) Personal distress
 * 6) bat for the other team

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 4


 * 1) Thinking in one language while speaking another
 * 2) Medieval Latin inscription from Belgium

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 5


 * 1) Right royal
 * 2) What is meant by this remark in the Japanese wikipedia article :ja:壇ノ浦の戦い?
 * 3) Kanji
 * 4) Vagueness of a language

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 7


 * 1) Japanese numerals
 * 2) Spanish -> English for hortelana, a herb
 * 3) Help finding Spelling & Meaning of a Word
 * 4) anyone vs everyone
 * 5) French negative imperative

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 8


 * 1) Written/typed kanji
 * 2) "Duchess of Cambridge hoax call nurse"
 * 3) Why doesn’t Classical Latin have descendants?
 * 4) Japanese place names in Korea
 * 5) Arabic and Swahili
 * 6) Oppa Gangnam Style

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 9


 * 1) Minamoto no Yoshitsune = Yoshitsune von Minamoto
 * 2) Middle nickname
 * 3) English nicknames replacing r with z

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 10


 * 1) Word for people in their twenties
 * 2) Le Roi des Etoiles poem in French - problem with 2 lines and a translation

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 11


 * 1) Spanish......te quiero, te amo
 * 2) Gravity of Love
 * 3) Robert Gist
 * 4) Spanish help

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 12


 * 1) Snow name?
 * 2) @Twitter
 * 3) "On" television/"in" a movie?

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 13


 * 1) Origin of fag = cigarette?
 * 2) GRAMMAR
 * 3) WP pages receiving redirects from their opposites
 * 4) Reading Arabic numerals in Arabic

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 14


 * 1) Which one was the Kanji name for Eda no Genzō--江田源蔵or江田源三?

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 15


 * 1) Deponent verbs
 * 2) The "O'" in names

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 16


 * 1) audio
 * 2) Es:grupera
 * 3) Bromyard
 * 4) Is Carne related to Karma?
 * 5) The Netherlands are or is?
 * 6) Dash and percent

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 17


 * 1) Verb from Ptolemy's name?
 * 2) Romanian 1st person pl. imperative
 * 3) Spanish Heraldry

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 18


 * 1) Japanese
 * 2) Chinese reading
 * 3) Japanese pronunciation
 * 4) Translating Japanese Article
 * 5) Naming of the Wikipedias

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 19


 * 1) Place–manner–time in English - how strict?
 * 2) Noun-izing words, and how to refer to them
 * 3) Linguistics term
 * 4) rhotic

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 20


 * 1) Riistomaasiirtäjä
 * 2) China–North Korea border
 * 3) Runners-up
 * 4) Don't let's go

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 21


 * 1) Difference between Spanish language in Europe and America

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 22


 * 1) Hangul and more needed for politician article
 * 2) Bandung

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 23


 * 1) Not literal translation

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 24


 * 1) Christine Moore
 * 2) Japanese word "no"
 * 3) kung fu
 * 4) another name for peephole lenses

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 25


 * 1) Shimmy or shinny down a rope

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 26


 * 1) Adverbial pronouns
 * 2) Pronunciation of sixth in the United Kingdom
 * 3) Long French Translation

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 27


 * 1) Cotton Squareing
 * 2) Arabic translation of a Maan news article
 * 3) "Tutta" is the southern equivalent of "Bubba" meaning "sister."

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 28


 * 1) Phonotactics of the word boundaries.

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 29


 * 1) Stephen Harper
 * 2) "Idiots can't catch colds."
 * 3) need Middle English translation
 * 4) Katakana ヲ (Japanese)

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 30


 * 1) beany

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 31


 * 1) So
 * 2) What does "Jewish minx" mean?