Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2008

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 1


 * 1) "The" before expressions including personal names
 * 2) lao kung
 * 3) Punctuation with links

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 2


 * 1) Need some help on classical Japanese/Chinese
 * 2) Feminin Ships
 * 3) The representative that vs the representative who
 * 4) Adding an Acronym
 * 5) I need help remembering the title of a short story.

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 3


 * 1) Need help figuring out the name of a book
 * 2) Off of?

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 4


 * 1) Verb placement in Sneewittchen
 * 2) Best defence
 * 3) Old Phrase
 * 4) Translation
 * 5) Conventions used with Roman alphabet
 * 6) "That will help my English"

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 5


 * 1) Full Stops and Direct Speech
 * 2) Yoshiko
 * 3) Enlglish language/influence of pidgin english on student's performance

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 6


 * 1) A or An
 * 2) Of all the words of tongue or pen...
 * 3) The University library is open today.
 * 4) French and its silent letters

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 7


 * 1) urdu word
 * 2) Emergent property
 * 3) cead mile failte

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 8


 * 1) Latin phrases in WP Occam article
 * 2) Inaction
 * 3) Quotation Marks, Again
 * 4) landing in spanish
 * 5) Medieval Latin
 * 6) Written Okinawan
 * 7) Possibly Russian?
 * 8) "It" in "It is impossible"

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 9


 * 1) pulling punches
 * 2) Travelling community
 * 3) What is the most disgusting short sentence?
 * 4) Source of "rh" in spelling
 * 5) LATIN to ENGLISH translation request.
 * 6) Tongue Twister

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 10


 * 1) Parallel structure
 * 2) кокусах
 * 3) How Large is English Vocabulary on Wikipedia?
 * 4) Estimating word count of personal vocabulary
 * 5) where is Wikipeida's French version reference desk?
 * 6) Education: reading and writing difficulties
 * 7) how do you say "hello" and "goodbye" in Russian?
 * 8) Is HARM related to HARAM?
 * 9) Translation from German to English
 * 10) Grammar: use of commas

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 11


 * 1) English-Latin translation needed
 * 2) I am concerned about the 'C'
 * 3) Looking for a particular word
 * 4) Mac Data Recovery
 * 5) Latin i think
 * 6) Summary of Chinese fiction
 * 7) Singular versus plural

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 12


 * 1) Alphabetical order
 * 2) RE:
 * 3) Correct grammar / wording
 * 4) Hebrew help
 * 5) Waterwings?
 * 6) Lady Macbeth's Sin
 * 7) United States
 * 8) Italian translation required
 * 9) NOPI

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 13


 * 1) Solidary refinement
 * 2) Is the following sentence grammatical?
 * 3) stitches in spanish
 * 4) buoyant in spanish

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 14


 * 1) Compass points N-O-S-W
 * 2) knuckles
 * 3) frostbite in spanish
 * 4) knight in spanish
 * 5) Declension of German words in English texts
 * 6) dagger and double dagger in spanish
 * 7) footnote in spanish
 * 8) what are the symbols for male and female in translating?
 * 9) swimfin in spanish
 * 10) Japanese help
 * 11) what's 簡述 in english
 * 12) stockpile and warfare in spanish
 * 13) Cinababi and :LALAS - Notable malaysian terms?
 * 14) Type of box
 * 15) Questioners' language skills

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 15


 * 1) Comma before 'and'; 'firstly'
 * 2) LET'S GO -- what is the subject?

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 16


 * 1) what capital letter differs most from its lowercase version?
 * 2) Latin
 * 3) "Prouder" or "more proud"
 * 4) The fighting Jondas
 * 5) Germanic ge- prefix, Latin.
 * 6) information about Wikipedia

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 17


 * 1) Pirate Song
 * 2) who quoted this?
 * 3) Pavement/Sidewalk--only in Philadelphia??
 * 4) Latin-English translation needed

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 18


 * 1) Blue
 * 2) moto in japanese
 * 3) can someone comment here

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 19


 * 1) intensamiente
 * 2) Luís Antonio Argüello in IPA
 * 3) couleur foncé
 * 4) Capital I ... why?
 * 5) Beelzebufo binomial name: what language and meaning?
 * 6) What is a 'bun runner'?
 * 7) Coming out euphemisms

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 20


 * 1) Madagascan or Malagasy
 * 2) Odd pluralization
 * 3) Which versus that
 * 4) Will versus shall
 * 5) dog's tail and a possible saying
 * 6) Word for "Jew" in languages of former Yugoslavia
 * 7) German Language Self-study
 * 8) Perplexing sentence

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 21


 * 1) Why no books with sequels in English class?
 * 2) Writing long-hand vs. typing
 * 3) the door sprung open??
 * 4) Awkward wording?
 * 5) Ironic or ironical?
 * 6) shoud refinery be capitalized in "Chevron Richmond Refinery" is that is the official name?

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 22


 * 1) Citing the OED on Wikipedia
 * 2) Shall English now divide?
 * 3) Curious, suspicious and trying
 * 4) Japanese Language ramen
 * 5) Twice Time
 * 6) arabic

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 23


 * 1) Usage of "rapide" in English
 * 2) Younger Futhark
 * 3) Languages in India
 * 4) Help writing how to pronounce a name
 * 5) Gabba gabba hey!

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 24


 * 1) Built like a brick shithouse
 * 2) Possessive case
 * 3) Analogies
 * 4) Huh? Why is this funny? If not a paradox, what is it?
 * 5) Japanese
 * 6) I love me some digital cameras
 * 7) Help with writing Persian

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 25


 * 1) Three nuns
 * 2) All fun and games, till someone loses an eye.
 * 3) Better phrasing for "assuming no..."
 * 4) charges/complaints
 * 5) Incorrect textbook (again)?
 * 6) Bonus articles

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 26


 * 1) TEXTBOOK --- its etymology, perhaps
 * 2) Snowplow in Spanish
 * 3) Metric feet
 * 4) Japanese Stroke Orders For Writing Dakuten And Handakuten
 * 5) Splitting clauses
 * 6) Grammar: "is" or "are" for a group?
 * 7) The ubiquitous A or An question
 * 8) Stroke Order

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 27


 * 1) Plural Letters
 * 2) Identification of a song

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 28


 * 1) Hardenstein
 * 2) precum in spanish
 * 3) 江宜玲 in english, pinyin etc
 * 4) Grammar: before me, or before I did?
 * 5) urinal in spanish
 * 6) Subject-verb agreement
 * 7) Green eye-shaded
 * 8) (Japanese) イラク日本人青年殺害事件 in english
 * 9) ¡Ou!
 * 10) English to Vietnamese translations
 * 11) Simplest Sinoxenic Character
 * 12) Yoon
 * 13) Islamic versus Muslim
 * 14) Massachusetts
 * 15) spelling of h'or dourve/h'ors dourves

= February 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 February 29


 * 1) Proofread some Japanese, please.
 * 2) Correct Sentence
 * 3) Punctuation in English
 * 4) Wedding Wording
 * 5) What's the most ferocious creature in the world?
 * 6) Typhoon and cock