Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2008

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 1


 * 1) difference between  'speak English, and speak in  English'
 * 2) Is this a two-part phrasal verb?
 * 3) Repeating a word until it loses meaning
 * 4) "Teacher" in Sanskrit
 * 5) Baby, Baby!
 * 6) Happens thy know
 * 7) word meaning
 * 8) rumauli

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 2


 * 1) INfobox
 * 2) Translation of passage on the Foshou - Buddha's Hand Citron
 * 3) blue cheese
 * 4) koebalatavake: meaning

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 3


 * 1) Prezzo
 * 2) How to capitalize "God"
 * 3) Quar- words
 * 4) Definition of Words
 * 5) Canadian English: "Focussing" or "Focusing"?

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 4


 * 1) What is the correct plural form of 'Eclectus'?
 * 2) Third highest graduate
 * 3) French popular song appearing in older edition of French in Action textbook series
 * 4) Means
 * 5) wet wool
 * 6) Pronounciation of latin letters in mandarin

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 5


 * 1) Readings of some Japanese Names
 * 2) Ugh!
 * 3) Japanese full moon
 * 4) False to fact
 * 5) Arab vocalized transliteration

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 6


 * 1) british loot
 * 2) suffer fools gladly meaning?

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 7


 * 1) Translations of book titles
 * 2) re my surname
 * 3) Sphincter Boots

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 8


 * 1) Hypenation of "cell line"
 * 2) Myself as a non-reflexive objective pronoun
 * 3) Sustensis
 * 4) Help with Russian language article concerning overstrung pianos
 * 5) "Upon this"
 * 6) Japanese Translation Help

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 9


 * 1) "Postcritical"
 * 2) Riat

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 10


 * 1) Gameplay
 * 2) Translation bitte
 * 3) Greek for "someone who gets work or energy from the stars"?
 * 4) American dialect according to the other side of the Big Pond
 * 5) sas elamonthos tu emon

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 11


 * 1) How Often Do Linguists Study the World Languages Again?
 * 2) "Considering that we" or "considering we"?
 * 3) Question on Entertainment desk
 * 4) I was directed to ask here
 * 5) What is the reference desk
 * 6) Semantics
 * 7) Non-linear logarithmic
 * 8) proverb
 * 9) word Innuuendo
 * 10) mounteback
 * 11) Terms for groups of animals, birds, and insects
 * 12) "wrought" and "worked"

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 12


 * 1) Another Latin translation please
 * 2) "Afterletters"
 * 3) Chinese versus Japanese writing
 * 4) Farsi translation, please
 * 5) A word please...
 * 6) Translation of "ta tienne" (FR)

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 13


 * 1) comma and following space
 * 2) "Include in" or "include on"?
 * 3) Singular or plural verb
 * 4) What sort of sentence is this?

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 14


 * 1) Japanese translation
 * 2) German einhalb neun means 00:39 or halbneun?
 * 3) Prononciation of D in French
 * 4) to control for (in scientific studies)
 * 5) Grammar Now!
 * 6) "I think you" or "I think that you"?
 * 7) Indefinite article question

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 15


 * 1) John Smith in Chinese
 * 2) Latin vs. Ancient Greek
 * 3) Do you speak/read any lnaguage of India?

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 16


 * 1) Signatures
 * 2) What kinds of nouns are these?
 * 3) Decimate
 * 4) Joshin ya

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 17


 * 1) IPA of Advaita Vedanta
 * 2) Old meaning of "leet"
 * 3) Alexei (sic) Fyodorov
 * 4) "virtuoso concerto
 * 5) Etymology of the names of medical subspecialties
 * 6) Uknown phrase in unknown language
 * 7) Swedish translation

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 18


 * 1) Is the following sentence grammatically correct?
 * 2) Offensive term
 * 3) Britic/britic
 * 4) cleanliness is next to godliness
 * 5) Looking to form a plurality...
 * 6) Another random French question ...
 * 7) German questions
 * 8) sago palm

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 19


 * 1) Visitor Center
 * 2) what does the last name "Cervantes" mean
 * 3) PYNAEI
 * 4) Icelandic question
 * 5) "Rubber" as slang?
 * 6) Wiktionary Worries
 * 7) Grossed out and weirded out
 * 8) cousin éloigné?
 * 9) What word?

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 20


 * 1) non-jargon word
 * 2) german definition
 * 3) anti-Islam?
 * 4) Missing Hebrew renditions
 * 5) meaning of "Short-waisted"?
 * 6) Mit den besten Wünschen!
 * 7) Nietzsche
 * 8) Pronunciation of Italian "giovane"

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 21


 * 1) Possessive case for inanimate objects
 * 2) A type of doughnut called "buht"??
 * 3) Italian Proverb

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 22


 * 1) Merged vowels -- how to know if /ɑ/, /ɔ/ or /ɒ/?
 * 2) Abbreviations

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 23


 * 1) Explaining Indo-European syllables to Japanese people
 * 2) formulating a name for a School Paper
 * 3) Which Indo-European syllables for Japanese
 * 4) Welsh and Greek
 * 5) From what language is Latin derived?
 * 6) Translating a phrase to Latin

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 24


 * 1) Speech communication speed of various languages
 * 2) Pronunciation of Italian "portafoglio"
 * 3) -que ending
 * 4) What language is this?
 * 5) 'Billion' in UK and US

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 25


 * 1) To speak the truth....
 * 2) Galore
 * 3) I have a rather large instrument here...
 * 4) cheese-eating surrender monkey
 * 5) Specific Tibetan script question
 * 6) It it,  that that, yeah yeah
 * 7) When we are writting about a country exactly which part of the name should be in capital letters?
 * 8) Nevertheless, time is of the essence...
 * 9) Defeat
 * 10) A word meaning "levels of abstraction"

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 26


 * 1) Remonstrate
 * 2) Original
 * 3) Foreign Language References
 * 4) Vowels
 * 5) Psammoma body
 * 6) Cree dialect continuum
 * 7) Yet

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 27


 * 1) Meaning and use of the word 'accuse'
 * 2) Hyphenated homographs
 * 3) Pronunciation of "Eugène Ysaÿe"
 * 4) selling and definition
 * 5) 1st Grade Question
 * 6) "Better The Devil You Know"

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 28


 * 1) French accent
 * 2) Name of a fountain in italics?
 * 3) EasyJet/easyJet
 * 4) Stellette pasta
 * 5) Not quite a "duty"?
 * 6) Some kind of -onym?
 * 7) How seriously is the linguistic community taking the Saphir-Whorf Hypothesis today?
 * 8) "Kabiawu" etymology

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 30

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 29


 * 1) Need South Indian transcriptions for the word "Gautham"
 * 2) Tense or Tensed?
 * 3) Thesaurus request
 * 4) "Die Sterblichkeit..." (quoted from "Völkischer Beobachter")
 * 5) "Unless it has been consumed by alcohol"
 * 6) OO? 00?
 * 7) Pronuncation of letter 'v' in Esperanto

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 30


 * 1) Mandarin and Japanese
 * 2) Slovak translation request
 * 3) Possessive with two owners?
 * 4) Red lorry, yellow lorry -- plurals are easier?

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 31


 * 1) English-Volapük translator
 * 2) Fact or Opinion?
 * 3) "He would later say"
 * 4) Negation and the lack thereof in natural languages
 * 5) Leo Tolstoy's name
 * 6) Spanish wrestling name translation
 * 7) What does "fraternities" mean outside of the U.S.?
 * 8) When to write HUMID and when to use MOIST ?
 * 9) Mac /Mc
 * 10) German question
 * 11) Madarin "一"