Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2013

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 1


 * 1) French and German
 * 2) Me and Thrak
 * 3) Joint = travel?
 * 4) Testing accuracy of language reconstruction techniques
 * 5) Number of morphemes in English
 * 6) "syllogistic bombs"
 * 7) Johnny Rotten
 * 8) Phone numbers
 * 9) What do actual Japanese people think of weeaboos?

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 2


 * 1) Are palatal stops palatalized alveolar stops or palatalized velar stops?
 * 2) Arabic, Albanian, Russian, and Khmer questions
 * 3) "Validus" in Arabic

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 3


 * 1) This German Life?

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 4


 * 1) Alternate scripts for Latin
 * 2) School district Arabic, Russian, Vietnamese, and Korean help
 * 3) Past tense double-letter usage
 * 4) Liberated wife
 * 5) How and why did the Dutch R change?

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 5


 * 1) The word "but"
 * 2) Berry, bury, barry
 * 3) Present  (Physically there)
 * 4) Is procreation a true synonym of conception?
 * 5) He/she/it/they when referring to an unborn child?
 * 6) Catalan to English translation
 * 7) What's the word for...

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 6


 * 1) Requested translation - Chinese to English
 * 2) Meaning of word Kashir or Kashar
 * 3) Abbreviations for Volts: alternating current and root mean squared

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 7


 * 1) Alumni - only graduates?

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 8


 * 1) japan's culture
 * 2) What is meant by the caption in :File:Tokugawa Ieyasu handprint.jpg?
 * 3), before and in Am Eng
 * 4) German: rüstung vs panzer

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 9


 * 1) Plural of "series"
 * 2) Maldonado
 * 3) Hebrew-English relationship
 * 4) Indian English
 * 5) Old Albanian
 * 6) Advance(d) orders
 * 7) Arabic triliteral roots
 * 8) Future Past

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 10


 * 1) Alveolar lateral trill
 * 2) Minerai
 * 3) Bad French intolerance stereotype

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 11


 * 1) Tense vs. Time in Grammar
 * 2) Why is president referred as "she"?
 * 3) Using "God" in a nonreligious context?

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 12


 * 1) Kanji elements
 * 2) Japanese names.
 * 3) Marc Ouellet
 * 4) "aa" in German
 * 5) Du kannst mich mal
 * 6) Concepts or meaning outside of the scope of the English language

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 13


 * 1) "These ones" ?
 * 2) Quirky placement of modal verbs (American English)

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 14


 * 1) A frightfully fascinating question

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 15


 * 1) Secular variant of Legalism (theology)
 * 2) Attorney, lawyer, lawmaker?

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 16


 * 1) A Latin challenge

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 17


 * 1) "Go to hell!.."
 * 2) "Ask the devil's mother!.."

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 18


 * 1) Ruslan and Lyudmila
 * 2) ἔδει μὲν γὰρ τὴν δι᾽ ἐναντίας
 * 3) Arabic help

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 19


 * 1) Complete Set Character
 * 2) Iesus
 * 3) "...than what ..." in comparative expressions
 * 4) Happy-go-lucky hater
 * 5) mofusil

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 20


 * 1) Spanish help
 * 2) Euphemisms for "fried"
 * 3) Daryl Katz
 * 4) Pronunciation of oxymoron

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 21


 * 1) Part of speech for interjections
 * 2) L'Oréal
 * 3) What is the opposite of 'empirical'?
 * 4) German and French requests

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 22


 * 1) "conservative"
 * 2) His number of days has come

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 24


 * 1) Symbols in  Latin text
 * 2) Request for Hausa Language in the world languages you mentioned in your web site.
 * 3) Trace, track, trail
 * 4) Definition of Syllable

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 25


 * 1) Spanish question
 * 2) Where is this sentence from
 * 3) What's the "Hand" means in "Hand of the Heavenly Brider".
 * 4) Pronunciation of colonel and lieutenant
 * 5) Ger>Eng. Unter Menschen
 * 6) How do translators know when to translate literally or figuratively?

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 26


 * 1) Yasui Santetsu
 * 2) Really hard to figure out phrase
 * 3) love handles
 * 4) Authority control

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 27


 * 1) be between husbands
 * 2) expectocrasy
 * 3) If not for him
 * 4) introductory paragraph

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 28


 * 1) Xavier in Arabic
 * 2) Is the Wikipedia on?
 * 3) Spanish punctuation