Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2011

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 1


 * 1) good name for the place where bounties are posted?
 * 2) A question about some Chinese text
 * 3) Rhymes

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 2


 * 1) Por/Para vs. Pour/Par
 * 2) Swedish surnames ending in -ius
 * 3) Swedish book title
 * 4) Word for the pre-sunrise counterpart of afterglow

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 3


 * 1) ______ with a human face
 * 2) Translation - Latin into English.
 * 3) Gnome
 * 4) Is text amended or emended?

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 4


 * 1) In the three-thirty?
 * 2) "Dem Deutschen Volke"

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 5


 * 1) Asore watasha?
 * 2) Linguistics meta-question
 * 3) Kaspersky Antivirus Services Could Not Start
 * 4) Chinese name with possible Arabic origin
 * 5) Question about Russian word
 * 6) Everyday-everday?
 * 7) Terms like "Victorian"
 * 8) Kanji variants

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 6


 * 1) A N P
 * 2) Mandarin
 * 3) Use of 'besides' at the beginning of a sentence
 * 4) Copulae and predicates
 * 5) Don's Plum's meaning
 * 6) Not a back-formation?

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 7


 * 1) Not quite homonyms, homophones or homographs
 * 2) Which one is correct? (if any)
 * 3) "Obsoletized" Adjectives
 * 4) Word starting with "Dimihi...."
 * 5) phytoxygraphique
 * 6) Canadian French
 * 7) Jour vs. journée
 * 8) Origin of the French pronunciation of "gn"

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 8


 * 1) un mitte??
 * 2) Taiwanese/Mandarin mix?
 * 3) Romeka - modern Greek dialect said to resemble Ancient Greek
 * 4) adjective or adverb phrase
 * 5) Chinese help - bank branch
 * 6) Le Carré d'Encre

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 9


 * 1) Catalan and Spanish
 * 2) "Swag"?
 * 3) German idiom
 * 4) Suppletive plurals

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 10


 * 1) Subject/predicate question.
 * 2) Romance languages
 * 3) Is "nobody" singular or plural?
 * 4) german sentence help
 * 5) Expand Russian request
 * 6) written symbol in English, French, other languages
 * 7) 菱

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 11


 * 1) St John
 * 2) Masters degree - correct use of apostrophes
 * 3) Document received by mothers of killed soldiers
 * 4) Réales / realism
 * 5) OED is free for a few weeks
 * 6) "Recently I met" vs. "recently, I met"

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 12


 * 1) Por vs para
 * 2) Latin translation required
 * 3) "warfighter"
 * 4) Can somebody please explain this poem?

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 13


 * 1) Danish translation
 * 2) SVO
 * 3) Tamil stuff
 * 4) Capitalization of typeface group names
 * 5) How is "apartheid" pronounced?
 * 6) Etymology of the French word "physicien"
 * 7) is vs are
 * 8) Is "guttiness" a word?
 * 9) Thème vs. thême (Fr.)

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 14


 * 1) Turkic languages and Cantonese/Mandarin Comparison
 * 2) The pressure is...
 * 3) "-wise" vs. "-ise"/"ize"

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 15


 * 1) Latin to English translation at "Robert Hues"
 * 2) Live and In Concert
 * 3) Objective of resume.
 * 4) "On the one side... on the other..." in Italian

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 16


 * 1) Biased question?
 * 2) sex ed test question
 * 3) Qu'ran

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 17


 * 1) Possible error on Seine
 * 2) Latin declension of "nomen"
 * 3) Mathematics and software for linguists
 * 4) Wikipolicy concerning use of the gender-neutral "singular they"

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 18


 * 1) German - sealed envelope
 * 2) Linguistic future
 * 3) Corridor coach
 * 4) Grammar

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 19


 * 1) Brain /Tongue
 * 2) American English.
 * 3) Kanji variants
 * 4) Rabbits' habits and rebels' pebbles
 * 5) Malay question
 * 6) Homophonic sentences?
 * 7) Practise, practice

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 20


 * 1) Allophone?
 * 2) Meaning of Czech name: Ořešila
 * 3) 洋 (Japanese)

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 21


 * 1) Swedish pronunciation
 * 2) Pronunciation: name "Crooijmans" of person from Netherlands
 * 3) Hyphened word
 * 4) Integral
 * 5) schwa
 * 6) Danish Pronunciations and Immigrant Name Changes
 * 7) Language speaker question
 * 8) On the excellence of accents

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 22


 * 1) Latin etymology of the word "conscious"
 * 2) Mountainous area
 * 3) Character for dental clicks
 * 4) What are these palatal consonants?

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 23


 * 1) Sith
 * 2) Can someone translate this Indian phrase?
 * 3) Why is the word "doubt" being substitued for "question"?
 * 4) Leaning languages for free

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 24


 * 1) Japanese つ and っ
 * 2) Chinese question
 * 3) Translation to Latin please?
 * 4) What does "revirado" mean?
 * 5) ...!
 * 6) 提舉司
 * 7) Food word question

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 25


 * 1) 'I Am a Jelly Donut'
 * 2) Åborätt
 * 3) "There is" vs. "There are"
 * 4) Question about "The small number of people who know grammar"
 * 5) Eszett

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 26


 * 1) Where is the joke here?
 * 2) Gloki?
 * 3) ... not! (sarcasm)

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 27


 * 1) Superlatives
 * 2) Gungywamp
 * 3) Is there a word for this?
 * 4) Euphemism and dysphemism for "visiting a prostitute"
 * 5) foreign language translations of current articles in English
 * 6) US English
 * 7) Disgust
 * 8) Word for a word that English has borrowed from another language

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 28


 * 1) Pronunciation of German name
 * 2) Another Japanese language question: 思考停止
 * 3) The genesis of language
 * 4) Comprising

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 29


 * 1) Critical period for language acquisition
 * 2) French
 * 3) Atmoshphare & Enviroment
 * 4) Translation help

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 30


 * 1) Norwegian text, may you help me please?

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 31


 * 1) Looking for a word, again
 * 2) Hen ba ix xia jao o ho ho ho
 * 3) Spenneberg Surname
 * 4) What does this mean?
 * 5) Correctly presenting a bracketed phrase