Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2016

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 1


 * 1) Ancient Chinese idiom "留中不發 (trad) / 留中不发 (simp)"

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 2


 * 1) Have you ever heard "eight-to-two" used for "eighty-to-twenty" or "four-to-one"?

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 3


 * 1) Name for insect vegetarian
 * 2) Japanese translation request
 * 3) In what order are digits written within a right-to-left text?
 * 4) How do Japanese people view those who pronounce the particle を as 'wo'?
 * 5) In what order are digits spoken within a left-to-right text?

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 4


 * 1) Disambiguating "may not"

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 5


 * 1) Looking for the name of a logical fallacy
 * 2) Interwiki link
 * 3) Former Australian cyclist
 * 4) Should one use a singular or plural in this case?  Is it proper to use "its" or "their"?

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 6


 * 1) Superior script
 * 2) International Phonetic Alphabet

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 7


 * 1) Derogatory phrase "Mary" maricón
 * 2) Great Britain and UK.
 * 3) Meaning of a Scientific latin name
 * 4) What is a gubbins

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 8


 * 1) Technical initialism case
 * 2) What languages uses the ASCII alphabet only?
 * 3) Gender neutral terminology for "Man of the Year"/"Woman of the Year"

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 9


 * 1) Why do Germans call New Year's Eve "Silvester?"
 * 2) Pronunciation question
 * 3) Forts in French
 * 4) Photographic prompts
 * 5) "-ity" vs. "-osity"

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 10


 * 1) Chicago Manual of Style
 * 2) Asking for IPA pronounciation of French biography article
 * 3) Title of Kipling story

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 11


 * 1) What is "and it might still.. " called?
 * 2) Homeric greek
 * 3) Arabic "taharrush gamea"
 * 4) In which languages there R consonant which pronounced like in English?

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 12


 * 1) Geographic distribution of readers of the English Wikipedia

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 13


 * 1) Does modern Hebrew have any punctuation?
 * 2) Meaning of an obsolete Dutch word 'gom'?
 * 3) Why are there no feminine versions for certain names?
 * 4) Good sources for audio of words

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 14


 * 1) Gender neutral French given names?
 * 2) Demonstration of Speech Shadowing
 * 3) Hitler's Mein Kampf 2016 reprint

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 15


 * 1) Is this irony?

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 16


 * 1) Split subject?

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 17


 * 1) Analysis of "the ruin of many a poor boy"
 * 2) German name of Oskar Schindler's Enamelware Factory
 * 3) "North, Central America and the Caribbean"

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 18


 * 1) Hard sentences make bad article
 * 2) Names with two patronymic affixes
 * 3) Russian: is there any word, other than жизнь, that ends with /zn/?
 * 4) Are Libana and Lubna the same person?

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 19


 * 1) The Female First Name "Knar"
 * 2) American English vs. British English, 1812
 * 3) Why would native speakers of English take a test of English as foreign language?
 * 4) Why do English speakers like to end names with -y?
 * 5) Name that form of deceptive advertising
 * 6) What does this clause mean?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 20


 * 1) Stamps
 * 2) receiver, receptor, recipient
 * 3) Term sought
 * 4) List of Ranks:
 * 5) Surname Davies in the UK

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 21


 * 1) Deciphering a language
 * 2) Is "defrosted" a synonym of "thawed" in the context of freezing and thawing samples?
 * 3) Chinese/Japanese kanji characters on Japanese flag

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 22


 * 1) Using an ellipsis to mark a parenthentical thought
 * 2) House of Representatives election vs. House of representatives elections
 * 3) "Slepulja/Sləpulja" meaning, etymology in Slavic

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 23


 * 1) For native English speakers only: Would a native English speaker talk like this?
 * 2) Procedure for writing better
 * 3) Neutral pronoun
 * 4) You had good/better/best answer this question

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 24


 * 1) Am looking for an English proper noun (a name of person / city - and likewise), whose pronunciation contains the consonant of "the".
 * 2) Is the NHS paying for socks?
 * 3) Japanese language question

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 25


 * 1) Size for a building
 * 2) English questions

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 26


 * 1) Portuguese question

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 27


 * 1) Which do you think reads best?
 * 2) Marsupial cheeks
 * 3) "still are" or "are still"?
 * 4) I am looking for one good word to describe "how many years ago something happened".

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 28


 * 1) 19th century French forms
 * 2) Name of position sought

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 29


 * 1) Danish pronunciation

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 30


 * 1) Need help with an old French book
 * 2) A mistake? (in spelling in a fanfic video on the rise of Insoc from Orwell's 1984)

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 31


 * 1) Mistakes?
 * 2) Use of square brackets in quotes
 * 3)  Tindinitis Tendinitis/Tendonitis