Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2009

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 1


 * 1) Foreign Accents

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 2


 * 1) Three-character Chinese expression?
 * 2) I need an English to Chinese translation for a first date with a woman who moved here from China
 * 3) Clabber Girl
 * 4) meaning of symbol '/' ie (oblique) when used in english language
 * 5) What's this Japanese Commercial Saying?

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 3


 * 1) Two-letter abbreviations required
 * 2) March Hare ("Haigha")
 * 3) The first 'Hall of Fame'
 * 4) Supposed to rain, etc

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 4


 * 1) Welsh epitaph
 * 2) Soduko
 * 3) Babenberg Ladies
 * 4) Not sure where this Q should go -- but try here anyway....
 * 5) Japanese characters

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 6


 * 1) Twelve Heavenly Generals: Chinese, Sanskrit,... names
 * 2) Quatro
 * 3) Headstone:translation from Latin, please

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 7


 * 1) The Ventures - Nihongo or no-go?
 * 2) The name of the rose
 * 3) Parts of speech of "one"
 * 4) Webcomic categorization
 * 5) Czech and/or Slovak translation
 * 6) Singing in a tonal language

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 8


 * 1) Learning a language and age
 * 2) Permissible names worldwide
 * 3) Recommendations for Latin books, especially editions of the Vulgate
 * 4) sit mihi fas audita loqui, sit numine vestro
 * 5) Slavic languages
 * 6) Expiration date

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 9


 * 1) language, use of adjective: "the text below"
 * 2) Do they translate the Greek New Testament in Greece?
 * 3) aramaic portions of the bible in interlinear translation
 * 4) Fuzzy Image German Text on 2009 BLEACH Anime
 * 5) What does this t-shirt say?
 * 6) Debussy and Chouchou

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 10


 * 1) Formatting quandry
 * 2) kick smb. for a mug
 * 3) Latin phrase
 * 4) With or without?
 * 5) novel characters
 * 6) Translation into Spanish? Please?

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 11


 * 1) appointment for?
 * 2) Chinese translation
 * 3) "Fewer carbon emissions" or "less carbon emission"?

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 12


 * 1) Is this self-made translation correct?
 * 2) Punjabi ordinal numbers
 * 3) Why is this sentence wrong? (SAT-style question)

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 13


 * 1) English translation for chain of law, police and forensic scientists
 * 2) What's better: "a house whose door I see", or "a house which door I see", or "a house the door of which I see"?
 * 3) German
 * 4) how do you say Regina?
 * 5) Languages of Spain

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 14


 * 1) What
 * 2) Translation please
 * 3) Adjectival Form Of "Continuum"
 * 4) Fly
 * 5) Memorabilia
 * 6) Prowlers
 * 7) "Gief" etymology

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 15


 * 1) Speed climbing
 * 2) Magyar
 * 3) Language
 * 4) "Whom" after "Which": would that be legitimate?
 * 5) Latin adjective
 * 6) Euro in Slovenian
 * 7) Christiano in Romance languages
 * 8) Words that exist only in a phrase
 * 9) Foot-strut and scottish
 * 10) the Hindi equivalent of fie! or pah!

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 16


 * 1) Vokuhila
 * 2) Zzxjoanw
 * 3) Harold Thomas
 * 4) Book on linguistics.
 * 5) Vuvuzela
 * 6) Chinese
 * 7) Is/Are
 * 8) Trying to remember the word....

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 17


 * 1) Pronunciation of Bruegel
 * 2) Put your thinking Caps on
 * 3) Manchu Loanword, 帥
 * 4) Translation
 * 5) Trans. Ger>Eng
 * 6) Not-native English speakers
 * 7) Welsh translation: "What's your name?" and "Are you hurt?"
 * 8) How should this be worded / styled
 * 9) Germanic mithology

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 18


 * 1) Phnom Penh
 * 2) Da kine
 * 3) meaning
 * 4) Hey, folks, I am back!
 * 5) Caesar and the elephant
 * 6) Translation into Latin
 * 7) translation !!
 * 8) Codeswitching

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 19


 * 1) estubo
 * 2) Translation of a French article
 * 3) Turkish rooters' song
 * 4) Apropos vs. Appropriate

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 20


 * 1) Pronouncing Polanski's Early Films
 * 2) Ichthys
 * 3) Translation, please
 * 4) Sp. > Eng. "disco de pizarra"

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 21


 * 1) language speaking hsn
 * 2) Oldest language
 * 3) Language error involving idiosyncratic misunderstanding of a word

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 22


 * 1) The Mighty Thor
 * 2) Funny?
 * 3) What is a "gingo"?
 * 4) Vis publica

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 23


 * 1) "I have a boyfriend" and "I have a girlfriend" in Japanese
 * 2) Is there a word for how an imaginary friend relates to a person?
 * 3) threat
 * 4) Poof
 * 5) Old Japanese / Shinjitai
 * 6) Swedish translation
 * 7) Languages with only one vowel
 * 8) Margerine-- hard or soft?

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 24


 * 1) Stuttering and languages
 * 2) Simple english grammar question
 * 3) Regicide
 * 4) "Rejection of Belief in God" - exact meaning?

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 25


 * 1) Archaic expletives.
 * 2) Transliteration of names

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 26


 * 1) Cor blimey trousers
 * 2) A "logical defect" in English grammar?
 * 3) Portuguese grammar
 * 4) English - Irish translation

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 27


 * 1) Naming of Polish Villages
 * 2) Hard /ð/ (voiced dental fricative)
 * 3) "Alveolo-velar lateral approximant"
 * 4) French Question

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 28


 * 1) Capital Spring or spring season?
 * 2) Chinook jargon ?
 * 3) Eng. to Ger. "blame culture"
 * 4) "The profession of being a waiter"
 * 5) Dialect/accent
 * 6) Japanese names
 * 7) Summarizing of "Crisis" section of "War of the Pacific" article and style of references

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 29


 * 1) Indian English: acceptable or not
 * 2) Attributing sentence to author
 * 3) Sentence Check

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 30


 * 1) Need help with Arabic
 * 2) Non-toxic
 * 3) Efficiency of written languages
 * 4) Ger. Eng. Alleinerziehender = single parent?
 * 5) Sentence Grammar Check (Another one)
 * 6) The meaning of "Adonio"

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 31


 * 1) Jua de vive - in need of a phrase dictionary
 * 2) A term "screw you"
 * 3) Use of 'may' in Indian official English
 * 4) who can tell me "kainc" how to pronounce,ok ?
 * 5) Plural for a proper noun in the Alfred Stieglitz article
 * 6) Big fish
 * 7) Naming Conventions