Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2010

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 1


 * 1) most run-on letters?
 * 2) Chechen alphabet
 * 3) Etymology of Ælfwaru
 * 4) French phonotactics
 * 5) Healthwashing

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 2


 * 1) Artifacts and artefacts
 * 2) High-pitched speaking voices
 * 3) Correct form
 * 4) Marry merry mary merger
 * 5) One more thing

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 3


 * 1) Correct terminology: eponym

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 4


 * 1) Kimmeridge, geologically
 * 2) figure out the accent of Tommy Wiseau
 * 3) "Douchebag"
 * 4) I'm looking for a word

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 5


 * 1) Japanese and Chinese Stroke Order
 * 2) personal description
 * 3) Looking for a general term for something that accepts a screw

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 6


 * 1) 'Hostage to fortune' idiom
 * 2) Zsa Zsa figure of speech
 * 3) Origin of "Eye of the Tiger".
 * 4) Need help with Dutch song!

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 7


 * 1) "Baby" in German and Dutch
 * 2) Redoubt
 * 3) Russian

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 8


 * 1) English to French translation
 * 2) Grammar question: "Note well" (English of N.B.)
 * 3) squirrel call
 * 4) Premature "is"

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 9


 * 1) wiktionary
 * 2) Thanks for pressing your thumbs??
 * 3) What is a works team in motorsports?
 * 4) Tome
 * 5) Newsletter names: plays on words

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 10


 * 1) Alan Tudyk
 * 2) One child policy related term - Request for new article

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 11


 * 1) Is this sentence grammatically correct?
 * 2) Idiom-Phrases help
 * 3) English, semicolons, I don't know exactly
 * 4) Scandinavian language and Japanese characters
 * 5) "Doubt" - dialect, or changed meaning?
 * 6) Is "myself" an adverb in "I did it myself"?
 * 7) Ordinal notation with superscript and -d

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 12


 * 1) Transcribe this please (simplified Chinese)
 * 2) I don't think this is jealousy, envy, or schadenfreude. Does it have a name?
 * 3) meaning of Gha
 * 4) Sittenfilm
 * 5) Tolerance of zee/zed for z

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 13


 * 1) Pronunciation of “Asperger”
 * 2) Im looking for a word
 * 3) S-Audi Arabia and Slova-Kia
 * 4) Learning Latin Vocabulary
 * 5) Pronunciation of "homage"
 * 6) Hebrew help
 * 7) Cherokee help

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 14


 * 1) Cyrillic to Latin
 * 2) Japanese name for...fashion designer?
 * 3) When the pronoun is the object of one verb and subject of another
 * 4) Human Resources Associate or HR Associate
 * 5) world languages
 * 6) "All but"
 * 7) weird English grammar (or maybe not)
 * 8) "This is she"

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 15


 * 1) need russian speaker
 * 2) Purchase or buy
 * 3) flat earth language
 * 4) strange habit
 * 5) Prefix "un."
 * 6) Ommitted pronouns?

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 16


 * 1) Turns the accusation around
 * 2) Running a car race
 * 3) Word that means goods and services
 * 4) Photon

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 17


 * 1) "eruditional"
 * 2) Japanese honorifics

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 18


 * 1) Swiss Standard German pronunciation
 * 2) Name Days
 * 3) Swiss German (and Swiss French)

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 19


 * 1) Not only... but (also)...
 * 2) Inflection of hyphenated adjectives?
 * 3) Japanese video translation
 * 4) Town in Cyprus

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 20


 * 1) Opposite of exaggerate
 * 2) Dutch name: In' t <-- meaning?
 * 3) Syntax: How can one use a possessive relative pronoun for combining a conditional clause with the main clause?
 * 4) French language
 * 5) Swedish place names containing “fick”
 * 6) Please, let me know if the word HOROLOGY exist?
 * 7) Some Hinglish please
 * 8) Can one learn a language by listening to the radio?

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 21


 * 1) DALF French language exams
 * 2) ノルウェイの森
 * 3) Meaning of medieval logic mnemonic
 * 4) Translation request
 * 5) A Persian poem
 * 6) Beligian or Belgian

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 22


 * 1) How do languages change?
 * 2) Google translate errors - reliable references etc required
 * 3) Latin translation
 * 4) Online Conversations for Language Learning
 * 5) Word meanings
 * 6) The aspirate doesn't have an aspirate.
 * 7) Negative words for male whores
 * 8) Equivalent word for illegible with respect to images
 * 9) Limes
 * 10) The quality of mercy is not strain'd
 * 11) Was Audrey Hepburn a lesbian necrophiliac?
 * 12) "Name numbers" for monarchs?

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 23


 * 1) Are gulls 'gullible'?
 * 2) Th in older German orthography

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 24


 * 1) Latin to English translation from Venus and Adonis
 * 2) Persian question
 * 3) Japanese
 * 4) Origin of "th" sound in English.
 * 5) Southern American accent

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 25


 * 1) Words with two definitions where only one can be pluralized

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 26


 * 1) Pronunciation of Los Angeles
 * 2) reference
 * 3) Odd Phrasing in BBC News Article
 * 4) The word "bread" meaning "money"
 * 5) Japanese translation?
 * 6) Latin Translation

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 27


 * 1) Does Portugal have this problem too?
 * 2) A word that means either a patronym or a matronym?
 * 3) Help translating from German, please
 * 4) British accent
 * 5) XVIII century translation, please
 * 6) Languages of Russia
 * 7) "100 percent" in Spanish

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 28


 * 1) Pre-Germanic English in modern English
 * 2) Cowboy slang...from the movies.
 * 3) Greek and Russian alphabet?
 * 4) The name Tsvetelina

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 29


 * 1) Official test for Russian
 * 2) Macedonian and Bulgarian
 * 3) Did Confucius really say that?
 * 4) Phonetic Alphabet
 * 5) Internet word frequency data
 * 6) "Sentimentality is unearned emotion"/James Joyce

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 30


 * 1) '...earned his ouster'

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 31


 * 1) Have cognitive scientists explained why it's tedious to not use pronouns?
 * 2) Greek Etymology: Zeuxippe
 * 3) Chinese bicycle vocabulary and tone confusion
 * 4) japanese to english translation please