Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2017

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 1


 * 1) How do you say "Happy New Year!" in your ancestral or second tongue(s)?
 * 2) Traffic police baton

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 2


 * 1) Translations from German

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 4


 * 1) the meaning of "play a straight hand"
 * 2) written Spanish
 * 3) Translate mistakes in ads

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 5


 * 1) qdm?
 * 2) Did early modern Europeans speak Latin?

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 6


 * 1) Seeking Pronunciation Respelling Converter
 * 2) "To prevail sth"?
 * 3) Please make a transcript of the video for 2017 Chicago torture incident

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 7


 * 1) Nambara, or Nanbara
 * 2) "A barracks" (?)

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 8


 * 1) When did "gay" gain a meaning of "lame" or "stupid"?
 * 2) to allow sb sth
 * 3) Cymorth cyfieithu  / Aide à traduction / Translation assistance.
 * 4) "to happen with sth"

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 9


 * 1) Wall calendars
 * 2) Swedish translation advice:Tideräkning/Kronologi
 * 3) Can loanwords have accents?
 * 4) Labelling amounts in currencies - feedback wanted
 * 5) What the deuce? (origin of phrase)
 * 6) What does this mean in Chinese?

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 10


 * 1) Is there a difference between a "human" and a "person"?
 * 2) Creature in Middle English
 * 3) Swedish translation advice: Stridsvagnen/Stridsvagn/Stridsvagnarna

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 11


 * 1) Register to [sth]
 * 2) Cynophobia from culture

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 12


 * 1) Teaching your son Klingon
 * 2) Why is there an apartment brand called "Doosan We've the Zenith"?
 * 3) Birket, in English or French
 * 4) Equivalent to German "einordnen"

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 13


 * 1) American English to British English differences
 * 2) Referring to volcanos

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 14


 * 1) Learner's dictionary
 * 2) Gothika
 * 3) Whose mom was it?

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 15


 * 1) Try and help me here
 * 2) "Wie geht dieses Spiel?"

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 16


 * 1) "Entitled"

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 17


 * 1) English of the GUI

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 18


 * 1) Some pages from China
 * 2) Native writers
 * 3) Is Nemesis (Roth novel) part of a series?
 * 4) "Infiltration" in different versions of English

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 19


 * 1) Topic sentences, in reality
 * 2) What to say cousin in Tamil?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 20


 * 1) El burro delante para que no se espante. Syntax taboos

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 21


 * 1) Origin of Sheraton

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 22


 * 1) Kamalieva & Djumaliev
 * 2) How to pronounce "Juergen Bruegl"?

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 23


 * 1) Non-human animals executed by means of a rope

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 25


 * 1) "Wie geht dieses Spiel?" (II)
 * 2) Picture of the Day
 * 3) past tense of 'to eat'

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 26


 * 1) Are there contemporary journals written in Latin?

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 27


 * 1) Usage of "gotten" in Australia
 * 2) "Plow" vs "plough" in historical British English

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 29


 * 1) whatever besets you/whatever you are beset by

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 30


 * 1) rerealione

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 31


 * 1) sg in Italian
 * 2) What is this letter?