Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2009

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 1


 * 1) Unwritten rules
 * 2) Can I help who's next?
 * 3) Why are males more interested in non-fiction?
 * 4) Double period
 * 5) Punctuation Predicament
 * 6) Complete book of myriad treasures / wanbao quanshu
 * 7) Translation from Hungarian into English

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 2


 * 1) spanish translation
 * 2) polín
 * 3) French beard
 * 4) Understanding foreign accents
 * 5) Je n'ai plus besoin d'eux
 * 6) French translation please

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 3


 * 1) Since the dawn of time
 * 2) Recliners found in cells
 * 3) Online Italian language resources
 * 4) Merging vowels
 * 5) minding your "BI" business
 * 6) "however" as conjunction
 * 7) Arabic language translation
 * 8) german to english
 * 9) latin numbers declinability

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 4


 * 1) Pronounciation of "Albeit" and "Whey"
 * 2) Is there a single word that means "uncared about"?
 * 3) English grammar [A number of people was, or were?]
 * 4) Czech word for "tailor"
 * 5) Pronunciation of Edgar as a German name?
 * 6) Definition of a Classic Novel
 * 7) Language death and Extinct language
 * 8) Inconsistent pluralisation, and inconsistent spelling generally

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 5


 * 1) joke / allusion
 * 2) Name of Lightning-globe
 * 3) Japanese!

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 6


 * 1) I have 2 younger brothers - help!
 * 2) Latin origin of the word 'limen' still relevant today?
 * 3) The seven moods of English and five persons of grammar
 * 4) Bila Tserkva (in Ukrainian)
 * 5) Linguistic background of Indian salt workers?
 * 6) Psalm 151 by Haile Selassie
 * 7) "In language there are only differences without positive terms" (Saussure Course in General Linguistics)
 * 8) Cricket St Thomas

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 7


 * 1) "Job" as a euphemism for faeces
 * 2) Icelandic (?) poem
 * 3) Lexicon development during childhood
 * 4) He didn't used to smoke
 * 5) Hebrew
 * 6) French "out of office"
 * 7) Arabic

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 8


 * 1) Help translating Chinese name into English
 * 2) Cerf's Up

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 9


 * 1) contemporary - correct usage
 * 2) Russian transliteration of English place name and football team
 * 3) Objective (Resume)
 * 4) Native name of the Bateleur

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 10


 * 1) correct usage of want/wants in Spanish - querer or querremos?
 * 2) Short forms of names
 * 3) Alveolar approximant in German
 * 4) Is vs. was — is there a right answer?
 * 5) latin question about cases and time
 * 6) ancient greek and modern greek

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 11


 * 1) IPA help?
 * 2) File Translation Needed
 * 3) meaning of yad-dast in Persian
 * 4) Padre santo
 * 5) versus (v. or vs.)
 * 6) Definition [Shivoo or Shavoo, Australian]
 * 7) Does this thing have a name?
 * 8) Glore
 * 9) Named for
 * 10) Other short forms of names
 * 11) Confused wording of a measurement

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 12


 * 1) Word choice for a section of an article of a Japanese celebrity
 * 2) No Question
 * 3) Extraits du corps
 * 4) Colon instead of comma??

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 13


 * 1) speech [How to give a good speech?]
 * 2) Is the subjunctive mood required in English?
 * 3) Pronunciation of Latvian place name
 * 4) Hiberno-English: 'ledrum?'
 * 5) Is OmegaWiki included in single user login?

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 14


 * 1) Spanish verb conjugation
 * 2) What is the adjectival form of verse, please?
 * 3) Can someone transliterate this for me?
 * 4) Non-IPA pronunciation
 * 5) Abbrevation?
 * 6) Please check my German
 * 7) "hittick"?
 * 8) "the" Month of Year
 * 9) "Muka"

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 15


 * 1) Cancer sticks, sugar water and evil sugar
 * 2) Latin word for understated ??

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 16


 * 1) a word [A word meaning "mission responsibility"?]
 * 2) Opposites of "must"
 * 3) Taphephobia
 * 4) Sprees?
 * 5) English to Spanish translation help, please
 * 6) French accusative infinitive?
 * 7) Pronunciation of "Mall" in "National Mall"

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 17


 * 1) English an noun/verb agreement
 * 2) Semi-decade?
 * 3) Japanese: Magazine title translation request

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 18


 * 1) Tetramorium caespitum
 * 2) help with a spanish translation
 * 3) Korean: Hungnam-ni
 * 4) interpretation ("Is ice hot or cold?")
 * 5) Consequent next step
 * 6) Standard Liberian English
 * 7) Capitalize names of literary genres

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 19


 * 1) A word to describe day-to-day documents
 * 2) 'haymishe'
 * 3) Bicycle Kick: Improving Sentence
 * 4) Translation from French to English
 * 5) "Gratuity" pronunciation?
 * 6) Japanese Reading
 * 7) Greek harvest

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 20


 * 1) Bad spelling
 * 2) Bicycle Kick: Correct and Proper Usage of Source Language?
 * 3) languages [How to say "hello" in Saudi Arabia?]
 * 4) Translation needed
 * 5) Distinction between agree with/agree to?
 * 6) Ghost
 * 7) Sentence Improvement
 * 8) learning German

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 21


 * 1) Looking for a word [where a winch cable is secured]
 * 2) "Mink", "minky" and "minker" meaning disgusting or dirty in various forms of British English
 * 3) Merkel
 * 4) Multiple root languages
 * 5) French version of findtheword.info
 * 6) "Eckscape" versus "Escape"
 * 7) Unnecessary commas?

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 22


 * 1) Crying Frenchman after Nazi victory
 * 2) Passion for words
 * 3) Swedish FOI
 * 4) English Grammar

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 23


 * 1) Renegade
 * 2) Why is the number two (2) written two different ways ?
 * 3) "Arnoldian" Public Schools
 * 4) Error Check
 * 5) Obama meaning
 * 6) Elvis in Chinese.
 * 7) Obama Inauguration Transcripts
 * 8) Why is "Corfe Close" funny?
 * 9) what is the origin of "man, that __ is one bad mother -- (SHUT YOUR MOUTH!)...But I'm just talkin about __"

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 24


 * 1) Yet or still?
 * 2) Beriberi

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 25


 * 1) Translation from French to English
 * 2) Translation
 * 3) Wikipedians from Washington D.C.

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 26


 * 1) Its vs It's
 * 2) please help [Why "congratulations" with an "s"?]
 * 3) German - English translation help
 * 4) Pronunciation of "Euclidian"
 * 5) "Just" in Spanish
 * 6) (Mandarin) Chinese tones
 * 7) Intern
 * 8) Style guide for French spacing
 * 9) _______ or bust?
 * 10) chinese symbol
 * 11) Honoured/Honorary citizen (French)
 * 12) Nin-er

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 27


 * 1) How to flush in different languages
 * 2) "Chitty" as slang for 'cheque'
 * 3) Reference vs. References
 * 4) Difference between ʌ and ə
 * 5) Latin ad, ex
 * 6) añorar

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 28


 * 1) languge, Monomatapa kings
 * 2) How did influenza become "the 'flu"?
 * 3) How are these Portuguese names pronounced?
 * 4) Is there a good English language lemmatizer, online, that can handle entire wordlists?

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 29


 * 1) Unhyphenated prefixes
 * 2) I need your help... [writing a letter in Russian, Ukrainian]
 * 3) spanish translation
 * 4) Pronunciation [of Marjane Satrapi]

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 30


 * 1) Guessing authors country of origin from text

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 31


 * 1) Translation
 * 2) "neumal schlau" German translation
 * 3) How is this address read?