Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2012

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 1


 * 1) Central Asia and Azerbaijani languages Turkish and Russian
 * 2) Is "lost" in Latin "perditus"?
 * 3) "Danish pasting"
 * 4) Need your help translating the following document
 * 5) linguistics
 * 6) Vexillonerdologically (not to mention philatelonumismatovexillonerdologically)

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 2


 * 1) What's the go with hyphens and dashes?
 * 2) 的 and spanish de
 * 3) Tongue
 * 4) Terms for deer
 * 5) Basque Dialectical Differences

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 3


 * 1) The use of the verb "drink" to automatically and assumably mean "drink alcohol [without specifying alcohol]"
 * 2) Radicals vs phonetic components
 * 3) Alvarado
 * 4) English names that sound like prostitutes' names

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 4


 * 1) Translation
 * 2) Japanese translation help
 * 3) Japanese 'r'
 * 4) As-clauses in English
 * 5) Small-c vs. capital C
 * 6) When you were young

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 5


 * 1) How does the American accent make a distinction between "can't take" and "can take" (the stress being on "can")?
 * 2) Welsh and cornish languages

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 6


 * 1) Latin translation ("Let the just proceed forth")
 * 2) Rhyming phrases
 * 3) Biannual as a noun for a half-yearly journal?
 * 4) learning help
 * 5) The development of Proto-Germanic -eu- in Dutch/Middle Low German
 * 6) English genitive case of 'Chancellor'
 * 7) Arabic: Attijariwafa Bank
 * 8) Steve McLaren

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 7


 * 1) Arabic transcription

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 8


 * 1) Interpreting lyrics

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 9


 * 1) Pi/pie
 * 2) Name of fallacy/rhetorical technique
 * 3) Fake middle English
 * 4) Similarity between spanish and english?

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 10


 * 1) Using the verb dominate
 * 2) OPTIMIZATION
 * 3) British place name Slurvian pronunciations
 * 4) Russian word translation
 * 5) Hello "SNOTRAG", goodbye "PORNOMAG"
 * 6) War of Succession

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 11


 * 1) OE El-ge --> Ely
 * 2) Are You Grammatically Correct Tonight?
 * 3) logo21.gif
 * 4) Sentences that mean the same thing and sound similar in unrelated languages
 * 5) Japanese pun in Final Fantasy VI, can someone explain it?

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 12


 * 1) Wright or wrong?
 * 2) ASCII Media Works
 * 3) English pun on faithful
 * 4) Eastern Arabic numerals
 * 5) is 'liable to' standard English?

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 13


 * 1) Intervocalic alveolar flapping in "Importance"
 * 2) Romanian
 * 3) Chinese
 * 4) Rainforest layers in Chinese
 * 5) What is the correct english form?
 * 6) Antonym for "Envy"
 * 7) Quran translation in some Europe language

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 14


 * 1) Anti-semitic
 * 2) In which month was Giorgio Baldizzone  born?
 * 3) Please explain this joke
 * 4) Korean help

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 15


 * 1) It would be remiss of me
 * 2) A few lines in English, describing an old man. Help me improve my english and my vocabulary ?

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 16


 * 1) Maybe
 * 2) Source translation needed from French
 * 3) Extra H
 * 4) Khasi

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 17


 * 1) Original sounds of ancient languages
 * 2) Strange Limerick
 * 3) Meaning
 * 4) Three syllable three letter words
 * 5) "A Few Words"
 * 6) English
 * 7) MLA Quotations

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 19


 * 1) î and â in Romanian—what happens if there's a c or g about?
 * 2) Japanese
 * 3) The Port Authority's Exact Words
 * 4) "Both...and..." or "...so..."?
 * 5) What is the longest English word that can in theory be written by repeatedly pressing the same key on a phone with an E.161 keyboard?
 * 6) The words "Sodomy" and "Fornication" and "Adultery" -- fancy words for anal/oral sex, premarital sex, and extramarital sex?
 * 7) English vowels

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 20


 * 1) Talking products and shopping stores
 * 2) Pronunciation
 * 3) Greek, German, English
 * 4) at (the) Technische Universität Berlin
 * 5) Japanese screenshot text to English

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 21


 * 1) /eɪ/ and /ɛ/
 * 2) Apostrophes and soft signs

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 22


 * 1) the 17th century equivalent of 'decor'
 * 2) Italian help
 * 3) Pwned vs. Iwned
 * 4) Spelling of Ngũgĩ from Gikuyu

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 23


 * 1) Chinese help
 * 2) Killing me softly with his definition
 * 3) Use of "without" to mean outside. Is it now outdated?
 * 4) (The) Name Foundation Center for/of International Production Systems
 * 5) Just a point of view about "American" categorized people =)
 * 6) who run the world
 * 7) singular or plural? Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit is/are?
 * 8) Chinese reading help

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 24


 * 1) Kishmish
 * 2) Sentence language subject to two meanings?
 * 3) Japanese help
 * 4) life vs lives

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 25


 * 1) Spanish subjunctive question
 * 2) I don't have to vs I must not
 * 3) Smash the granny
 * 4) Yes I do

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 26


 * 1) Groundhog Day
 * 2) Polish to English questions
 * 3) what do we use the prague school for?
 * 4) Spanish help: translating "cool smiles"

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 27


 * 1) English to Japanese questions
 * 2) I should be getting wikipedia in English, I'm in the United States and always got it in English, but now I get it in Chinese it only happens with Firefox browser
 * 3) John Boehner
 * 4) Parenthetical German puns
 * 5) "Accountred"
 * 6) US or UK?
 * 7) prə'naʊnt.sɪŋ on the cover of Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 28


 * 1) French translation
 * 2) unintended consequences of a "rape" comment

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 29


 * 1) Fictive judge in Burmese "fables": Princess Learned-in-the-Law

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 30


 * 1) meaning of expression "fur and wode"
 * 2) Trawsfynydd
 * 3) Flames, shoes and brakes
 * 4) Dear [I don't know your first name]?

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 31


 * 1) "Of course"
 * 2) Hebrew