Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2015

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 2


 * 1) Arabic question: What is "Schools in Detroit" in Arabic and Polish?
 * 2) Where/what is your waist?
 * 3) What's the grammatical form: "You hate no-one, do you?", or "You hate no-one, don't you?"

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 3


 * 1) "Man up"  not "gender neutral" - what is current best exact equivalent in English usage
 * 2) She's an alumni

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 4


 * 1) What is "School districts in Michigan" in Arabic?
 * 2) Pronunciation of Teklehaimanot  and Qhubeka

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 5


 * 1) inverted ‘Viva’ sign (Italian)
 * 2) Greek language

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 6


 * 1) What's the longest Russian word that's pronouncable if you pretend it's English letters?
 * 2) Borscht terminology in Yiddish
 * 3) Getting laid vs. getting laid off

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 7


 * 1) What is the Arabic transcription?
 * 2) Is "trivia" singular or plural?
 * 3) Yiddish language

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 8


 * 1) Arabic commons category label requests related to Detroit, New York City, and Philadelphia
 * 2) Title "Ms.": translations

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 10


 * 1) Facetious
 * 2) Pronounce ur ear ir

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 11


 * 1) date and record of a cross
 * 2) Odd gemination (dagesh hazaq) in a verse occurring numerous times in the Hebrew text of the Pentateuch?
 * 3) what is that nameless feeling of a scene

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 12


 * 1) What ethnic group is the name "Ali Ag Wadossene" from?
 * 2) Myths about the invention of a skill
 * 3) Translation of Latin Magna Carta book title
 * 4) Are there (healthy adult) people who speak no language at a native or near-native level?

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 13


 * 1) جنيفر (pronunciation of Arabic version of name Jennifer)
 * 2) Strengths and weaknesses

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 14


 * 1) Is this a grammatical mistake?
 * 2) Putting the preposition before the verb
 * 3) mother of two
 * 4) I'm looking for a website

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 15


 * 1) boxy plan
 * 2) Objections: what do you do with them?
 * 3) Original Russian for Bakunin's phrase: When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." ?
 * 4) Footballer names
 * 5) In the Czech and Slovak languages, how common are and have been the terms "Česko" and "Slovensko" as opposed to "Česká republika" and "Slovenská republika"?
 * 6) Juxtaposed homographs

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 16


 * 1) German saints

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 17


 * 1) Spratly Islands in Japanese

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 18


 * 1) Foot fetishism or podophilia in different languages
 * 2) Cell camera verb
 * 3) Transliterating Chinese sounds with the letter x
 * 4) What does the attributive modify here?
 * 5) What is a gallon jug
 * 6) Whether vs. If

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 19


 * 1) a warm muskmelon shade
 * 2) flutter
 * 3) Mystery character
 * 4) Iranian & Middle East Sprachbund

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 20


 * 1) Questions on the Ancient Egyptian language and the proto-Nostratic language theory

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 21


 * 1) Etymology of Midwestern United States
 * 2) Words ending in -cund
 * 3) The voiced alveolar raised non-sonorant trill (Czech ř)

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 22


 * 1) Looking for a word or phrase
 * 2) Transfixation elsewhere than in Afro-Asiatic?

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 23


 * 1) Shirt58's starter for 10
 * 2) Amiga

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 24


 * 1) Einherjar
 * 2) Can someone help me edit the following paragraphs to improve readability, grammar, and flow
 * 3) I hope to God vs. Ojalá que

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 25


 * 1) More mystery Chinese characters (and a dash of Tibetan)
 * 2) Squirt
 * 3) Origin of "pray the gay away"

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 27


 * 1) Missing the bark for the tree
 * 2) Aboriginal name of Tasmania
 * 3) Meaning of "scenario" in the context of hypothetical prehistorical events
 * 4) "Our thoughts remain with family and friends of the deceased"
 * 5) "e" and "ä" in German

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 28


 * 1) Opposite of irony

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 29


 * 1) Antonym (etc.) of "backlog"
 * 2) Annexure- for building?
 * 3) Negation
 * 4) Adjectival form of "lacking imagination"
 * 5) Bless, blessed
 * 6) Syntax: not...either
 * 7) big-bigger, vs. good-"gooder"

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 30


 * 1) What is it called when books or movies are written like this: "Movie, The"
 * 2) Bocardo Prison
 * 3) "ee" and "oo"
 * 4) How does one get an official translation of official documents?

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 31


 * 1) etymology of Quidlivun
 * 2) Quotation From Asterix