Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2011

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 1


 * 1) Silent w in wh- words
 * 2) Extended homonyms
 * 3) Has the Singular Possesive Pronoun Gone the Way of the Dinosaur?
 * 4) Arabic Dialect Comparison

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 2


 * 1) Borax
 * 2) "How do you call yourself ?"
 * 3) Likelyhood that old civilizations pronounced words the way we pronounced them?
 * 4) Arabic الكعبة kaʕbah, English cube

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 3


 * 1) Sas Thelimatos tou Emon - seeking translation.
 * 2) At and in
 * 3) Adding dates to people with titles
 * 4) English exam: Help!!!
 * 5) Basic Japanese Counting

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 4


 * 1) Swear word ? in unknown language
 * 2) Places in 1920 Schleswig / Slesvig
 * 3) Quarterfinal vs Quarter-Final vs Quarter Final
 * 4) Translation from japanese
 * 5) Languages with different words for inclusive/exclusive we/our
 * 6) List of verbs used copulatively in English?
 * 7) Would someone be willing to proofread a CV/application letter?

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 5


 * 1) Shipdham
 * 2) Nothing
 * 3) Etymological connection between Hebrew "kollel" and English "college"
 * 4) the fauna equivalent of 'anthology'?
 * 5) the changing nature of Fanny

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 6


 * 1) "Self checkout machine" in Spanish
 * 2) if a noise makes a sound, what does a color make?

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 7


 * 1) Czech Proverb
 * 2) Translating jobs...?
 * 3) Knockabout

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 8


 * 1) p. 65 or p.65 ?
 * 2) Knutsson in all Scandinavian languages
 * 3) Verbs that take dative (in)direct objects

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 9


 * 1) Turkish baharat includes mint as the major ingredient.
 * 2) Old Norse
 * 3) Google Translate......
 * 4) Pop vs. soda
 * 5) What does alle mean?
 * 6) The buck's gotta stop somewhere.
 * 7) Kanbun readers

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 10


 * 1) can jungle also mean rainforest?
 * 2) How did space become masculine?
 * 3) x by y by z
 * 4) Masscre is not supposed to be capitalized?
 * 5) Antonym of goldbricker
 * 6) How come?

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 11


 * 1) Milkmaid figure
 * 2) naming custom of Salva Kiir Mayardit?
 * 3) Sum = "An arithmetical problem to be solved", not just adding up
 * 4) English to Korean sentence translation requests
 * 5) ( CHN ) meaning of Hanzi on this farmhouse beam?

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 12


 * 1) Michael Fassbender's German dialogues in X-Men : First Class
 * 2) "For toffee"

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 13


 * 1) Locations with the name -sex
 * 2) Changing words from English to English
 * 3) Translating historical fiction into French - tu/vous
 * 4) Spanish cities ending in -ona

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 14


 * 1) pronunciation of -tion ending
 * 2) Voiceover for Game - Translation Request (German)
 * 3) Muhammad's cat
 * 4) Topf <-?-> Pot

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 15


 * 1) --ope, etc.
 * 2) Complexity of Japanese grammar
 * 3) CHN (Area west of Mississippi)
 * 4) TRANSHIPPED - Meaning
 * 5) Difference between accuracy, precision and resolution.

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 16


 * 1) Ditched, crashlanded, forced to land
 * 2) Français
 * 3) 'Folk psychology'
 * 4) Easy French translation
 * 5) Hyphenation of French double-barrelled given names
 * 6) Rendering of transliterated Hebrew word

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 17


 * 1) “San ling sheng jiang ji”
 * 2) Literal translation versus poetic translation
 * 3) “Spicken macht Faß”
 * 4) Latin meaning and explanation

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 18


 * 1) Miscellaneous vocabulary questions (French and German)
 * 2) How to start my study for Spanish language?
 * 3) Review of English language

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 19


 * 1) I'm like how come?
 * 2) Obligatory sex-based gender marking for animals
 * 3) harvesting equipment history
 * 4) article 5 of Statute of ICJ
 * 5) Esperanto

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 20


 * 1) Physical Anatomy
 * 2) In laws
 * 3) Moose

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 21


 * 1) Couple
 * 2) Functionality
 * 3) Disagreement about formatting of aircraft type designations.
 * 4) Shrug

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 22


 * 1) Killers - Spree vs. Mass
 * 2) Help me find the phrase
 * 3) Origin of Kelsey's nuts
 * 4) JA (Location of headquarters)
 * 5) "Circle jerk" synonym
 * 6) Looking for a word for a finger punch
 * 7) A word that is always adjacent to one particular other word

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 23


 * 1) How would one say "Those who cannot live, serve" in Latin?
 * 2) "i don't need no education"
 * 3) Better term for "hierarchical precedence level consistency" ?
 * 4) Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 24


 * 1) Request translation from Polish to English, of Wikipedia page.
 * 2) How do you spell the names of the letters of the English alphabet?

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 25


 * 1) Plural of names
 * 2) Bratskellar
 * 3) Short Korean translation
 * 4) SP: "X by Y"
 * 5) Possibly Mike North's Accent
 * 6) Friends with
 * 7) American grandfather

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 26


 * 1) Mischieve
 * 2) Dang furriners; why caint they speke Merican?
 * 3) Is this sentence correct?
 * 4) Bold
 * 5) Cheveux vs Chevelure

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 27


 * 1) How old is the arabic language?
 * 2) When did ideas stop having capital letters?
 * 3) Nietzsche Letter in German
 * 4) Conocer-Saber distinction in Spanish
 * 5) Haben/sein distinction in German

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 28


 * 1) "Legal"
 * 2) (ZH) Eslite Bookstore headquarters?

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 29


 * 1) What is this guy's accent?
 * 2) Singlish & American Standard English
 * 3) Wiligut Font
 * 4) Hebrew

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 30


 * 1) Tahitians
 * 2) 'Vitipetia'
 * 3) Phrasing
 * 4) Pre-heat the oven
 * 5) One

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 31


 * 1) Dick
 * 2) to sail is everything
 * 3) Capital letters