Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2009

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 1


 * 1) Translation help.
 * 2) Names
 * 3) German idiom?
 * 4) Ich bin ein Berliner

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 2


 * 1) Huddling together of words with very different meanings
 * 2) Remarrying
 * 3) Best titles
 * 4) Word describing the accuracy of an instrument
 * 5) NPOV of forced drugging?
 * 6) I am, etc.

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 3


 * 1) Games
 * 2) "Snow day"?
 * 3) Hallmark-quality?
 * 4) Across-the-board?
 * 5) Pronunciation of Belgian surname: Nagant
 * 6) Looking for a word
 * 7) "Parte presa"?  (Venetian decree)
 * 8) Feminine equivalent of "emasculate"
 * 9) Handwell

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 4


 * 1) Teaching English abroad as a non-graduate
 * 2) Inside handle of a car door
 * 3) Flamingo(e)s?
 * 4) American languages
 * 5) Lux Aeterna

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 5


 * 1) Judeo-Yemenite
 * 2) English language [lessons for Arabic speaker]
 * 3) Arabic for "the sublime"
 * 4) relationship between sanskrit and hindi
 * 5) Canadian accent on the word sorry

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 6


 * 1) Proper spanish translation
 * 2) Gender and color vocabulary
 * 3) Way to abbreviate "greats" in describing ancestors...

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 7


 * 1) Verb tense?
 * 2) Need an explaination of a Quebecois/French word
 * 3) Bezier Curve
 * 4) Verbs and prepositions
 * 5) Test to pass
 * 6) Active & Passive forms
 * 7) Wāli = viceroy, governor, or ?
 * 8) No dead horse left unflogged
 * 9) "Walrus"- Dutch

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 8


 * 1) What word...
 * 2) Avoidance of "an"
 * 3) what words are you allergic to?
 * 4) Who said this?
 * 5) "Cripple" - ca. 1940
 * 6) French-saxon
 * 7) Coquet vs Coquette

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 9


 * 1) what do you call a person with no sense of smell
 * 2) Breezeway?
 * 3) an & h
 * 4) Numbers and Hyphenation
 * 5) ridulous, ridulousness
 * 6) 18th century English pronunciation
 * 7) two latin questions
 * 8) following on from breezeway
 * 9) Old English perfect aspect
 * 10) Use of of

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 10


 * 1) the letter H in Scrabble
 * 2) Belt
 * 3) what's not feeling called?
 * 4) it's and its
 * 5) Umbrella term for hair, fur and feather?

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 11


 * 1) about .net language
 * 2) Question for Londoners and other H-droppers
 * 3) shakespeare
 * 4) albert camus
 * 5) Pronuncation of "Australia"
 * 6) Dates of Joining letter
 * 7) vietnamese translation huong tra
 * 8) spanish translation slither, thrust

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 12


 * 1) Heckling in a movie theatre
 * 2) Ch sound
 * 3) Antihomophonym?
 * 4) What is a conceptual term ?
 * 5) German Zwirn
 * 6) spanish translation, sore
 * 7) Name [Why so many starting with J?]
 * 8) Question about a Russian song

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 13


 * 1) translate "navratan korma" from hindi (?)
 * 2) French Translation Question
 * 3) 2 book titles, Latin > English
 * 4) Words with exactly one rhyme
 * 5) Using idiomatic expressions literally

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 14


 * 1) Latin word miramini
 * 2) Why gravitate to antisocial language?
 * 3) how about rewriting this in english
 * 4) Capitalization of academic title
 * 5) Per cent and (UK?) media

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 15


 * 1) False Non-Cognates
 * 2) Specific way of communicating with deaf and blind people.
 * 3) questions on the language used in a university certificate
 * 4) Missing out the word 'the'
 * 5) Redundant "that"s
 * 6) "L" in Bavarian

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 16


 * 1) ...[Why are ships sometimes referred to as "she"?]
 * 2) Writing Amharic by hand
 * 3) revision

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 17


 * 1) other lists for poetry and pleasure
 * 2) Correct grammar/punctuation for length of time

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 18


 * 1) (Y)ekaterina
 * 2) French verb caracoler

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 19


 * 1) Comparative Frequency List
 * 2) Leaves of Grass- Semantic shift?
 * 3) thoroughbly
 * 4) What's with this type of punctuation
 * 5) "Go on fire"
 * 6) Translation from French to English
 * 7) Plural of 'Catch 22'
 * 8) Punctuation
 * 9) Double v single quotes
 * 10) Virtues ending with letters 'ce'
 * 11) The dictionary
 * 12) Part of speech
 * 13) "Gone, but not forgotten"

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 20


 * 1) Vaessen
 * 2) word for 'pay what you think its worth'
 * 3) Who's down under?
 * 4) Assimilation of Japanese syllable coda /n/ before /w/?
 * 5) My, my
 * 6) Ajar words
 * 7) Term for a figure of speech

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 21


 * 1) Conjugation
 * 2) Arabic Transliterations
 * 3) Liyannaj?
 * 4) English language question - differences in speech and conversation
 * 5) Question about the suffix "Jr."
 * 6) think
 * 7) Czech nickname for Josef (or ?)
 * 8) Is this Correct?

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 22


 * 1) Obcurity ["upper youth"]
 * 2) Chinese characters
 * 3) list of alternades
 * 4) Pronunciation of Korean?
 * 5) English Saying From Years Ago

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 23


 * 1) Dita Saxova
 * 2) Criticism
 * 3) Russian language help, please
 * 4) jact greek course: new vs. old edition
 * 5) what is the translation of APRES MOI LE DELUGE

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 24


 * 1) up/down the street
 * 2) Devotee
 * 3) spanish translation
 * 4) Spanish punctuation
 * 5) A single preposition for both date and time
 * 6) What is this City in Japan?
 * 7) Hohen vs. Hoher (Meißner)
 * 8) What does 山人 mean?
 * 9) butler in spanish
 * 10) Grammar Question

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 25


 * 1) Definition
 * 2) What colour is jajeok (Korean 紫赤)?
 * 3) XX: 你好
 * 4) 你家有没有吗？

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 26


 * 1) Surnames that indicate ancestor was an abandoned child
 * 2) comma after or before "and"
 * 3) Longest string of letters shared by non-cognates
 * 4) guarantee
 * 5) German/English Beamte/Functionary
 * 6) How to disambiguate following sentence
 * 7) Semester
 * 8) The Disappearance Of J.Thomson
 * 9) Fear of Computers in Latin
 * 10) Earliest attestation for singular "United States"
 * 11) need a word that starts with the letter D and means pattern

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 27


 * 1) What's the word for a medication that doesn't cure, only mitigates symptoms?

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 28


 * 1) A few of chinese phrases
 * 2) Root words in a polysynthetic language
 * 3) Similar sounding terms?
 * 4) Domo
 * 5) and we feel that this initiative would further the goals of that policy
 * 6) one word or multiple words that mean New Beginning, Hope, Rebuilding, Courage
 * 7) Words that have travelled a long way
 * 8) 你家有没有宠物吗？