Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2011

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 2


 * 1) Vets In Practice
 * 2) Latin & Spanish
 * 3) Arabic numbers

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 3


 * 1) Plurals of English nouns ending in "i" [?]
 * 2) Whose father?
 * 3) Classification of sentence
 * 4) French words entering English
 * 5) "Subject - Verb - Object" - and exceptions
 * 6) Romanization of Cyrillic
 * 7) Skirting the issue, unwillingness to ask for something directly.

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 4


 * 1) span
 * 2) Is there a term for words that exist almost solely in certain phrases?
 * 3) Ambiguous abbreviations
 * 4) Spanish nasals and [ŋ]
 * 5) Does the city of Urbino have an adjective in English?

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 5


 * 1) Hebrew help

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 6


 * 1) Could you please have a look at this text in German?
 * 2) "Standard" languages in fantasy settings
 * 3) French question: Sans versus Cent

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 7


 * 1) I just called to say...
 * 2) Hhelp
 * 3) General Flowerkick?
 * 4) Jo-ed

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 8


 * 1) Treaty of Portsmouth places
 * 2) Agreement with plural nouns treated as singular?
 * 3) Are there any better words for "OCR'ing" and "combining OCR-result and immage"?
 * 4) undocumented hand gesture?
 * 5) Plural of Mercedes-Benz?
 * 6) Shi Jingtang's father

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 9


 * 1) Chinese again - need computer enterable characters
 * 2) In what language is this song?

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 10


 * 1) Coat of arms of Paray-Vieille-Poste
 * 2) no less than vs not less than
 * 3) Latin help again please
 * 4) English language: - there's a word for this, but I can't recall it
 * 5) Of all the sentences in all the encyclopedias in all the world, the period walks out of mine.
 * 6) arabic we the people

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 11


 * 1) English V2?
 * 2) Is there a verb form of "appellation" meaning "to name"?
 * 3) Please help with this sentence structure OR How can we make this sound better?

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 12


 * 1) Wimmel
 * 2) Who's that girl?
 * 3) Capital or not a capital
 * 4) Arabic writing translation wanted, please

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 13


 * 1) Translation of a long Latin sepulchral inscription
 * 2) what is the high-falutin' version (meaning) of the word "precious"?
 * 3) Arabic: Habibi / habibti
 * 4) Latin sexual verb
 * 5) Translation of 巨蜂葡萄

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 14


 * 1) What language is this?
 * 2) Aspect vs Tense
 * 3) summer chocolate
 * 4) Intermediate versus open o
 * 5) Kecskemét

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 15


 * 1) Derivative nouns & Uncountable nouns.
 * 2) Dutch and Farsi help
 * 3) Door number three?
 * 4) Ambiguity in Vietnamese

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 16


 * 1) Yakovlevich
 * 2) "too big of a" etc.

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 17


 * 1) Just out of interest...
 * 2) French "billion"
 * 3) Please remember not to forget
 * 4) Bahasa Indonesia help
 * 5) Is there anything wrong with this sentence?
 * 6) Grammar tool to supplement spell checker?
 * 7) "Debaser" (Pixies song) title sound file request for Wikipédia
 * 8) First language in the history of human civilization
 * 9) Promentorium tremendum = ?

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 18


 * 1) Is the following sentence ambiguous?
 * 2) Translation of 17th-century German book title
 * 3) Sumerian

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 19


 * 1) Stop series - aspirated/breathy/modal?
 * 2) French
 * 3) Languages in The Eagle
 * 4) piano ripple
 * 5) Help writing Urdu script
 * 6) Word 'crisis' in Chinese
 * 7) In what language does one say: to complain "from" somebody, instead of: to complain "about" somebody ?

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 20


 * 1) What is considered the gold standard German/English translation dictionary?

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 21


 * 1) Groups of words built the same way but from different source languages
 * 2) Definition
 * 3) Translation of a German book title
 * 4) The word "Data" and plurals
 * 5) Imply vs infer?
 * 6) 'Immersion' in a submarine simulation
 * 7) "of" vs. "'s"
 * 8) "Learnable" ... ?!

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 22


 * 1) Taught vs. learned
 * 2) Translation from French
 * 3) English translation from columns in Caphernaum
 * 4) Arabic help
 * 5) Term for skepticism towards oneself
 * 6) Pronouncing Boston if you are from Boston, daughter in England
 * 7) Can you learn a language with multimedia packages...
 * 8) Innan vs. före

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 23


 * 1) Seasonal colouration
 * 2) Skočná and sousedská
 * 3) Desert's son in Arabic
 * 4) Punctuation after italics
 * 5) Translation of Japanese term into English

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 24


 * 1) Québécois or Gaspésie expression
 * 2) Rhotacism among native speakers of Spanish
 * 3) English for Chinese word 干爹
 * 4) Word for 24-hour period
 * 5) Grammar - "without me having to"

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 25


 * 1) w.r.t. or i.r.o.
 * 2) What letter of the alphabet is this?
 * 3) French profanity

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 26


 * 1) "Sandboxing" in general
 * 2) Hindi translation
 * 3) on vs l'on
 * 4) Word for expert on medals

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 27


 * 1) Cyrillic text help
 * 2) "A discussion that resulted in his being sanctioned."
 * 3) Hanzi and pinyin for Ms Wenwen Han please!
 * 4) Mnemonic for semantics of "to trade A for B"
 * 5) Pawn to Rook Seven?
 * 6) Ol Chiki and Avesta fonts
 * 7) A gang of fifty strong?
 * 8) Polish translation needed
 * 9) Latin translation
 * 10) Wrinkly grandmother...

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 28


 * 1) anyone know Russian?
 * 2) Muslim girl names
 * 3) can past tense and present tense come togethor in a common written piece.
 * 4) Americanisms... again
 * 5) Veni, vidi, vici - I came, I saw, I won?
 * 6) Verb objects