Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2014

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 1


 * 1) Need help with (mock)-Hebrew and Spanish subjunctive
 * 2) Meaning of endorse and endorsement
 * 3) Romance languages question
 * 4) Adonay adoneynu and therefore hashem adoneynu?
 * 5) Unclear Word

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 2


 * 1) vice versa
 * 2) Why are long sentences automatically perceived to be run-on?
 * 3) Two word Russian translation: big baby or overgrown child?
 * 4) English naming practice (has gone mad)

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 3


 * 1) How would you call this kind of building?
 * 2) Indissoluble vs. insoluble
 * 3) Content versus contents

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 4


 * 1) Would native Spanish speakers understand a foreign Spanish speaker who really can't pronounce the r's?
 * 2) Speech disorders only for speakers who fail to pronounce their native language?

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 5


 * 1) Is "smartass" supposed to be pejorative?
 * 2) German plurals question
 * 3) Russian last name

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 6


 * 1) Is ¡Dios mío! as blasphemous to Spanish speakers as "Oh, my god" is to English speakers?
 * 2) What's a khafīf consonant in Arabic?

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 7


 * 1) Can "God" and "divine providence" be used interchangeably?
 * 2) are italics sometimes used to de-emphasize?
 * 3) Stir-fry
 * 4) Prophet Muhammad
 * 5) WikiSource transcription error?
 * 6) Latin question
 * 7) List of Biblical names across languages

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 8


 * 1) Afrikaans

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 9


 * 1)  Sandhi error in Sanskrit userbox?
 * 2) Conditions Latin
 * 3) "Oven" in Norwegian language
 * 4) Requesting German to English translation
 * 5) Are the dialects in Britain mutually intelligible?

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 10


 * 1) Formal reading of ordinal numbers
 * 2) Is there a word for a household or family with three or more income earners?

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 11


 * 1) Comprehension help

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 12


 * 1) Is there a derogatory term for homosexual women (lesbians) as fag?

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 14


 * 1) Russian name Raskolnikov
 * 2) come they do

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 15


 * 1) Rastrogar (or Rasrogar)
 * 2) Do "love marriages" involve parental consent or approval?
 * 3) Translation from Middle French
 * 4) can anyone please correct the grammar in this sentence
 * 5) apostrophe

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 16


 * 1) "Knowledge is the fruits of science"?
 * 2) What is the origin of "shtang" or "shtaung"?
 * 3) Is "data" singular or plural?
 * 4) Trying to pronounce ð and θ
 * 5) attn vs. c/o

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 17


 * 1) Why do people use "we" to refer to the human species instead of using third person?
 * 2) What does it mean when an old, unattractive man is perceived to be "cute" by young teenagers?

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 19


 * 1) Seeking an article from the Ukrainian newspaper Ukraínskaya Pravda
 * 2) Languages that lack standardization/spelling rules?
 * 3) "or" in Keats
 * 4) Help with DE>AR name transcription
 * 5) Does the Spanish eña eñe (ñ) go back to a double n (nn)?

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 20


 * 1) Non-rhotic words in rhotic accents (or not)

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 21


 * 1) Is there a term of endearment in English that means polite, well-mannered, and obedient?
 * 2) Bundesigel?
 * 3) Japanese abbreviations
 * 4) British accents identification

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 22


 * 1) Proper punctuation for a possessive noun within parentheses
 * 2) Infamous
 * 3) what demographic uses LMK for let me know?
 * 4) Translation help
 * 5) Term for "the dole" ?
 * 6) Why is St. John pronounced like "Sinjin"?

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 23


 * 1) Simplified Chinese with more strokes than traditional
 * 2) What language is the following sentence? "Jtaten, mon frero Julien".

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 24


 * 1) British slang: "Butter wouldn't melt in your mouth"
 * 2) Licenses, permits, and concessions
 * 3) Ancient Greek Transliteration Technique

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 26


 * 1) Is this headline grammatically correct?
 * 2) Garn. Why can't the English learn to speak?

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 27


 * 1) Black English

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 28


 * 1) 天生 = nature or disposition
 * 2) Japanese 9, ku, and Chinese relationship?
 * 3) "home is where the heart is"; "home is where you hang your hat"
 * 4) She for ships, he for aircraft?
 * 5) who is "we"

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 29


 * 1) Replacement for the word literally
 * 2) Parsing a sentence in a prayer to Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
 * 3) Some nuance in a Churchill quote

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 30


 * 1) Singular or plural
 * 2) What on earth is a "Casal"?
 * 3) Unafforested
 * 4) Translation of the title of De legibus & consuetudinibus Angliæ

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 December 31


 * 1) Placement of adverbs in transitive-verb, English clauses. [Revisited]
 * 2) My talk page
 * 3) 5 Sentences in English I find difficult. Help me out and I might just learn something today.
 * 4) Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliæ