Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2013

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 1


 * 1) Does Aromanian possess grammatic cases?
 * 2) What is the word for a baby unicorn?
 * 3) Determination on reliability of Portuguese source needed

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 2


 * 1) Is the grammar understandable?
 * 2) Wow

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 3


 * 1) Apostrophe & Pronunciation
 * 2) Pronunciation of "slew"
 * 3) "more slender" or "slenderer"?
 * 4) Number governed by "each"
 * 5) Bar at the top of the letter J
 * 6) Japanese question

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 4


 * 1) Icelandic Names and Naming Conventions

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 5


 * 1) Is endos a Japanese or English word and what does it mean?
 * 2) A man is knighted and a woman is...?
 * 3) Lay and laid
 * 4) Getting the shaft
 * 5) A rat by any other name...
 * 6) Cambodian/Khmer help
 * 7) Is there a database of lyrics with faulty language?

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 6


 * 1) Difference between for example and for instance ?

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 7


 * 1) Eragrostis = lovegrass : why that name ?
 * 2) Why does "unsafest" sound wrong?
 * 3) Subject, class, course ?
 * 4) Spanish

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 8


 * 1) Is "renowned" derived from a verb?
 * 2) Request for translation of Latin epitaph
 * 3) Pronunciation of "Lefebvre"

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 9


 * 1) Przy Pikrynie i Trotylu
 * 2) Difference between "Play" and "Drama"!
 * 3) Falling in Love Again - translation problem

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 10


 * 1) 1647 French birth record

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 11


 * 1) Spanish/Galician help
 * 2) Website for obscure words
 * 3) History of Belgium
 * 4) Bill
 * 5) Voiceless dental affricate
 * 6) Mid 19th century (or earlier) dialect question..
 * 7) Help Identifying a Short Story - Kipling I think
 * 8) Board room

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 12


 * 1) French translation of tablet
 * 2) Michigan
 * 3) "-ise" or "-ize"?

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 13


 * 1) Name of a Korean cooking device

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 14


 * 1) Need help with what this statement means?
 * 2) Term used to describe a technique
 * 3) Awkward phrasing: double negative sentence, what is the meaning?
 * 4) How to pronounce Leonowens
 * 5) Nursing in the UK

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 15


 * 1) "His face was drawn but the curtains were real"
 * 2) Appropriate word
 * 3) Collective nouns
 * 4) Wikivoyage related

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 16


 * 1) "Taped"  = "pre-recorded", no matter what medium is really used?
 * 2) Bengali name for "Peel District School Board"
 * 3) Tuu tii tu tööti tuu
 * 4) The Ballad of Bill Hubbard
 * 5) Hindi and Punjabi names for New York City Department of Education
 * 6) Hebrew name for New York City Department of Education

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 17


 * 1) Spell Chekcer software
 * 2) Polish - Home

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 18


 * 1) Has the NYC-area phrase "to stand on line" replaced the phrase "to stand in line" in any other dialects?
 * 2) "A shot at the title"
 * 3) Of Mice and Men
 * 4) Chinese Syllabary?
 * 5) How to apologize in French
 * 6) Languages without distinct plurals ?

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 19


 * 1) Pika = Pikachu ?
 * 2) Pronunciation of Fouvry

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 20


 * 1) Half a dozen

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 21


 * 1) Choose Your Own Adventure Book Cover Fonts
 * 2) aqua
 * 3) Is this a sentence?
 * 4) From Cinema to English Vocabulary
 * 5) Any definition difference between lights and colors
 * 6) What the Bible's book are most translated?

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 22


 * 1) Typos in Chinese and Japanese
 * 2) Proposing an ambiguous spelling
 * 3) Weird adage
 * 4) Letters as designations?
 * 5) What can you say about the readability of the short paragraph?

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 23


 * 1) Ramaré
 * 2) Trnaslation to French
 * 3) Pronunciation of French names

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 24


 * 1) Identify three (Japanese?) characters in Brian Austin Green tattoo?

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 25


 * 1) Türkmenbaşy
 * 2) Use of "then".
 * 3) Is there an English equivalent to the Chinese proverb 好汉不吃眼前亏?
 * 4) Dependent and independent clauses

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 26


 * 1) tak
 * 2) Passive voice
 * 3) Please do better than Google Translate
 * 4) Overuse of the progressive

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 27


 * 1) Language evolution after disaster
 * 2) Pronunciation of "online": a or an before "online"?
 * 3) What is this accent?

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 28


 * 1) "Women writers"
 * 2) Equivalence for spiel?
 * 3) Maker subculture
 * 4) Druggist, apothecary, pharmacist

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 29


 * 1) Between / among
 * 2) Requesting translation from Italian to English
 * 3) Rechtsfähigkeit/権利能力
 * 4) interbreeding vs. outbreeding
 * 5) Is contemporary then, now or either?
 * 6) Words with supposed antonyms but are actually synonyms?
 * 7) Stage Language
 * 8) Register and French/Germanic word origins

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 30


 * 1) Aboriginal swearing - Translation from Latin
 * 2) Is it possible to reconstruct a currently spoken language (grammar, vocabulary, phonology) given it's parent language and sister languages?
 * 3) Short translation into Polish
 * 4) Is this really a rule in English?

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 31


 * 1) What is it Westergren?
 * 2) (Non-)Mutual intelligibility of Russian and Serbo-Croatian
 * 3) Vietnamese help
 * 4) Mustafa Farrah