Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2008

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 1


 * 1) Color me curious
 * 2) Japanese 'th'
 * 3) I need Korean names for Korean characters.
 * 4) Latin (2)
 * 5) 凤玲

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 2


 * 1) Sinhalese please?
 * 2) German-English translation needed
 * 3) Latin Sentence
 * 4) Kanji name trend?
 * 5) please translate to spanish. thank you
 * 6) World's biggest English sentence

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 3


 * 1) Parent Languages of Arabic
 * 2) Malayalam spelling and transliteration
 * 3) Vietnamese
 * 4) Chinese

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 4


 * 1) Negative Form of Need
 * 2) Which Language And
 * 3) Bulgarian: medical treatment at the witch
 * 4) Months!
 * 5) Help with Italian

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 5


 * 1) Most "untranslatable" English novel
 * 2) Correct wording

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 6


 * 1) 愛
 * 2) Looking for French poem/poet
 * 3) usum, nutum
 * 4) What does "making out" in American English mean exactly?
 * 5) Inscriptions on Continental Currency (US)

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 7


 * 1) Cardinal/Ordinal patterns in English
 * 2) Arch (arch) and arch (ark)
 * 3) Attaboy?
 * 4) So who has the accent?
 * 5) Persian
 * 6) "9/11 Truth Movement" in Turkish?

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 8


 * 1) 19th-century English "Of an afternoon"
 * 2) Chinese sign
 * 3) Hernando Colon / family crest
 * 4) Hello, where did the phrase "to the table" become popular?
 * 5) Origins
 * 6) I have a terribly low proficiency for languages
 * 7) カイダー字 or カイダーディー
 * 8) Writer's error?
 * 9) Furbish
 * 10) Roneotyped

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 9


 * 1) Love
 * 2) ATM machine and PIN number
 * 3) V-words associated with anger
 * 4) What do you call a list of movies, articles, etc. which won a certain award?
 * 5) Hi, why is the word 'refrain' such a contradiction?

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 10


 * 1) Names for the parts of a rasher of bacon in Spanish
 * 2) "Wet room"
 * 3) Correct wording #2
 * 4) Latin "v"
 * 5) Latin Sentence
 * 6) looking for the word that means a test or trial
 * 7) Meaning of "DZ" in Chinese/Taiwanese/Asian products
 * 8) Why is it beheading?

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 11


 * 1) Completely unknown language
 * 2) Ordinata
 * 3) French "e" and English "s"
 * 4) Commas in english

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 12


 * 1) definition
 * 2) Finding a Word
 * 3) Help with French pronunciation
 * 4) All right vs. Alright
 * 5) Shittle
 * 6) Calique?
 * 7) Surname prefixes

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 13


 * 1) A request to review Zen
 * 2) Latin
 * 3) Hound of the Baskervilles
 * 4) "To Be"
 * 5) Is disrespect a word?
 * 6) "Night" and "eight"

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 14


 * 1) it can't be helped that there's a lot of it about
 * 2) English phrase in telephone conversation
 * 3) Get Fuzzy
 * 4) Latin Phrase
 * 5) English Idiom
 * 6) About "wireless"

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 15


 * 1) James, Ya'qub
 * 2) Periclean Age in German?
 * 3) Dissolving tiling grout in a toilet bowl
 * 4) Formalitate

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 16


 * 1) Latin
 * 2) Basic JC-1 H2 Economics help needed
 * 3) Last name first
 * 4) -ing
 * 5) Sanctity
 * 6) Etc.
 * 7) Translation from German into English

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 17


 * 1) Basic grammar
 * 2) Semantics
 * 3) What do you call this?
 * 4) one word for "the final destination"
 * 5) Is an independant contractor a "subordinate"?
 * 6) Arzhaan
 * 7) sorting problem
 * 8) Him
 * 9) Difference?
 * 10) Gerund or Compound Predicate

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 18


 * 1) English Slang word myder
 * 2) When history was wrtten the final page will say..
 * 3) "rocks" meaning 'sports'??? ("rocks a 240x400 pixel screen")
 * 4) Exemplary exam questions

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 19


 * 1) Punctuation
 * 2) English to Tamil translation
 * 3) Surnames relating to animals and birds
 * 4) Latin Sentence
 * 5) Singular and plural
 * 6) The Bahamas
 * 7) Use of consonant f as s

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 20


 * 1) Question: Idiom
 * 2) mafia, how is it pronounced?
 * 3) English grammar ...
 * 4) Tocus

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 21


 * 1) Economics 101
 * 2) Kipper (medieval)
 * 3) like a wedding, only again just to confirm your commitment
 * 4) Andromache
 * 5) Odd construction
 * 6) Better wording
 * 7) Capitolinus Mons / Mons Capitolinus
 * 8) Poetic nonsense

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 22


 * 1) NO EXIT in multiple languages
 * 2) How do americans sound to brits?
 * 3) Global Phoneme Frequency
 * 4) German article genders
 * 5) Japanese To English
 * 6) Hentaigana
 * 7) Gulzaar e akbari
 * 8) Bang/dead to rights
 * 9) "America"
 * 10) Latin to English Translation

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 23


 * 1) The ich-Laut in beschäftigt
 * 2) Polish-to-English translation
 * 3) Capitalization
 * 4) Poetic nonsense II
 * 5) How do you put Japanese words in "alphabetical order"?

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 24


 * 1) What does the Danish word 'læsebillede' mean?
 * 2) What's "Anti-Climax" in German?
 * 3) Urdu POETRY translation
 * 4) ADVICE please
 * 5) retroactive legitimacy

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 25


 * 1) Mas
 * 2) Antonym
 * 3) Inuvik language?
 * 4) Quickie request
 * 5) How do they do that?
 * 6) How to pronounce wikipedia
 * 7) Homo Sapiens

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 26


 * 1) Nesace, from Poe's Al Aaraaf
 * 2) On the one hand.... on the other hand
 * 3) "chandail de hockey"
 * 4) Synonym
 * 5) Written Okinawan

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 27


 * 1) Spanish translation question
 * 2) gas trouble, Indian English?
 * 3) to the manner born
 * 4) IPA help
 * 5) Grammar

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 28


 * 1) Lwding Leonardo Salas
 * 2) Greek in Scotland

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 29


 * 1) "La Mano Desasida"
 * 2) Lithuanian
 * 3) Source of a quote
 * 4) Capitalisation, Manual of Style

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 30


 * 1) Auderiense
 * 2) Spanish

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 31


 * 1) Written Okinawan
 * 2) Adverb of "Hard"
 * 3) Usage: cost and costs
 * 4) spelling translation
 * 5) Communicating with few words