Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2015

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 1


 * 1) Opposite adjectives in English
 * 2) Comparative Phonemes

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 2


 * 1) Chinese poem
 * 2) Why are the s, sh, and th phonemes so prevalent in English?
 * 3) Is there a word for this phenomenon?
 * 4) Meaning of the term "collect prayer"

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 3


 * 1) About Draft:Asociación Latinoamericana de Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios
 * 2) Languages that have formal or polite terms borrowed from foreign languages
 * 3) decedent hamburger
 * 4) Border between simple and progressive
 * 5) How do the French spell "Tricolour"?
 * 6) Singular versus plural noun and verb

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 4


 * 1) English subtitles for Ukranian(?)

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 5


 * 1) Beaver Cleaver
 * 2) Followup to  Like how does "medicus" become "miège"?! It's a crazy language.

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 6


 * 1) Japanese preference for purintā over purinta, etc
 * 2) What are examples of 轉注 reciprocation meaning on Chinese character systems
 * 3) Letter C in German
 * 4) Letter Y in German
 * 5) two thousand fifteen
 * 6) Question about sexual interest
 * 7) Comprehensive source on stress in America English for learners

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 7


 * 1) Japanese grammar
 * 2) Bring back my Bonnie to me

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 8


 * 1) Identifying languages in the Charlie Hebdo "I am Charlie" PDF
 * 2) IPA for Okinawan
 * 3) German question
 * 4) Jive followup (not a question)

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 9


 * 1) ’In real terms'
 * 2) Why "justice" and "France" don't have articles?
 * 3) Conditional tenses of "can," "may," and "ought."
 * 4) On/At the weekend
 * 5) Why no "off board"?
 * 6) xxxiii = chips?
 * 7) Questions about punctuation in a prayer

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 10


 * 1) Term for some stronger flavor that masks another flavor, often weaker, during short time intervals?

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 11


 * 1) Charlie Hebdo
 * 2) Broadcasted
 * 3) Charlie Hebdo cartoon
 * 4) Indians vs. Indians

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 12


 * 1) Translation request: Hungarian to English

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 13


 * 1) Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "iconoclast"

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 14


 * 1) Moving
 * 2) English understanding problem

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 15


 * 1) Romaji
 * 2) Can "invention" and "discovery" be used interchangeably in this situation?
 * 3) True meaning of the word Malad

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 16


 * 1) Esperanto translation of Coxhead's "Academic Word List" ?
 * 2) Japanese term for bowing in Judo
 * 3) Arabic for French international school?
 * 4) What is "Perutation?"

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 17


 * 1) Pronunciation of 完全版
 * 2) Another Arabic question

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 18


 * 1) Infrastructure word
 * 2) Translation of Latin titles

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 19


 * 1) More Arabic
 * 2) What is the word for this?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 20


 * 1) Biased towards or biased against?
 * 2) Is it okay to have double contractions?

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 21


 * 1) Secretary
 * 2) Why is Kw a consonant?
 * 3) Identification and textifiction of three images
 * 4) What can cause stark idiolectal differences in the speech of children anent their parents?
 * 5) Grammar question

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 22


 * 1) danah boyd
 * 2) Another Arabic inquiry

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 23


 * 1) Greek keyboard
 * 2) Proper verb tense
 * 3) Spacing Modifier Letters
 * 4) Seeking a French translation
 * 5) Arabic question: Schmidt's Girls' College

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 24


 * 1) Does verb conjugation serve any function in modern English?

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 25


 * 1) Theonym
 * 2) Another Arabic request

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 26


 * 1) Using parentheses
 * 2) Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd in English and Welsh
 * 3) It's Greek to me
 * 4) what is the meaning of swarajit (in bengali)?
 * 5) Sorting Arabic names

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 28


 * 1) How pronounce "CARMEN" ?
 * 2) IPA & Stress

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 29


 * 1) Infinitive-like gerund?!