Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2008

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 1


 * 1) reëxamining
 * 2) wait until next shoe drop
 * 3) Feldherrnhalle
 * 4) Learning a language online
 * 5) Phrases sharing initials
 * 6) Meaning of word 'skin horse'

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 2


 * 1) Plural vs Singular
 * 2) Loser's folly
 * 3) Verkündung der Wehrfreiheit (Germany, 1935)
 * 4) Usage of word "aspect"
 * 5) "mille e tre" in Leporello's catalogue aria (Don Giovanni)
 * 6) Latvian question
 * 7) Catcher in the Rye
 * 8) Russian questions

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 3


 * 1) Orwell
 * 2) who and whom
 * 3) Parenthesis in quotations
 * 4) German translation
 * 5) "Eitherly"

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 4


 * 1) Poss ess
 * 2) ORIGIONAL SCRIPTURES OF INDIA
 * 3) Please interpret this sentence
 * 4) Meaning
 * 5) Skuta

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 5


 * 1) Section8
 * 2) Translation of text on an image
 * 3) Words ending in Z
 * 4) Auxiliary verbs in English
 * 5) "Five years of fighting"
 * 6) Poem analysis...?
 * 7) Examples of languages with pre-noun and post-noun placement of adjectives

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 6


 * 1) Plural of Destruction
 * 2) Latin Check
 * 3) Feminine endings in English
 * 4) The individual pasta unit
 * 5) what does "they" refer
 * 6) walk enclosure
 * 7) Donacor
 * 8) Russian questions

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 7


 * 1) Vowel in "hören"
 * 2) Looking for a word.
 * 3) German word oder "Es handelt sich hier um.."
 * 4) Improving accent
 * 5) Language in a can?
 * 6) The origin of the term RIP when used to describe a computer generated printout
 * 7) Referring to words
 * 8) Full stop before/after quotation mark
 * 9) Chinese character 枚
 * 10) Is there a word for this: a noun for the place where a child has been raised vs. born?
 * 11) Italian swears

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 8


 * 1) Request for translation in Italian
 * 2) Speakers of [FL-X]
 * 3) Can place be used as a location of text
 * 4) longest english word
 * 5) APA citations
 * 6) Is there a word...
 * 7) what does 'a couple of years' mean? 2year? 2~3year? or old year?
 * 8) Japanese? translation request

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 9


 * 1) Book Info
 * 2) Please help me.
 * 3) Japanese
 * 4) German Prefix
 * 5) Talking horse
 * 6) Question about the American Heritage Dictionary
 * 7) insertion of unnecessary word (of)
 * 8) Chinese Written Standards
 * 9) The Meaning of "aleek betho"
 * 10) Possessive with proper nouns such as businesses
 * 11) Typing Korean
 * 12) The core rules of English

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 10


 * 1) Insults in Calvino's Cavaliere Inesistente
 * 2) Proper term for a flipboard?
 * 3) Question!
 * 4) Mystery character
 * 5) "Adolf Hitler und sein Weg zu Großdeutschland"

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 11


 * 1) Etymology of "decidedly" and "eventually"
 * 2) Anhaltelager (Nazi-Deutsch)
 * 3) Italian translation

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 12


 * 1) Same word with two origins? (i.e. college)
 * 2) Introductory subject "there" and subject-verb agreement in English
 * 3) The first word...
 * 4) Wrong
 * 5) Communications job title
 * 6) Native American naming
 * 7) diploma
 * 8) High vs. tall
 * 9) extant vs existent

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 13


 * 1) Position of "not"
 * 2) "mock group"
 * 3) hebrew writing
 * 4) Translation of "Bhole Nath" - Sanskrit
 * 5) phonetic script of Kachhi (Kachchhi) language
 * 6) English = Latin?
 * 7) "Blog this..."

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 14


 * 1) Is there a name for this kind of fallacy/rebuttal?
 * 2) pronunciation
 * 3) Anglo-Norman
 * 4) German grammar
 * 5) neutral insults

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 15


 * 1) Hyphen-help-request
 * 2) Heliciculture
 * 3) Grammar question
 * 4) Explanation of a poem by T.S Eliot
 * 5) American wanting to do bus. in Afgh. Am confused if Farsi Rosetta Stone is purchased will that be = to Dari?
 * 6) cot cot cot codaaaaak
 * 7) "Something-sized" comparisons

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 16


 * 1) "Equipotency"
 * 2) Swindlehurst
 * 3) Request for translation
 * 4) Ne Quid Nimis
 * 5) "age groupers"
 * 6) A book on human races
 * 7) Unknown text
 * 8) Name for icons
 * 9) Author of Quote or "Law"
 * 10) "Genetic" prefix???
 * 11) Corpora

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 17


 * 1) "snortling"
 * 2) "solistic"
 * 3) Meaning of "steveador"
 * 4) can talk for England
 * 5) What's the word?
 * 6) Arabic spoken texts
 * 7) "May I End This Sentence With a Proposition?"
 * 8) Spanish translation requested
 * 9) German question

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 18


 * 1) novel person
 * 2) Music terminology questions
 * 3) "surf life-saving clubs"
 * 4) "tone quality"
 * 5) Quia vir reprobus

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 19


 * 1) Tropeiro
 * 2) khushwant singh's writing style.
 * 3) Encouraging phrases
 * 4) Irmiter
 * 5) German definite article plus name
 * 6) Honesty and truthfullness
 * 7) "To be, or not to be" ... what?
 * 8) Latin term for 'Inquiring Human'
 * 9) Copy text for assessing penmanship
 * 10) "ultrahydrophobicity"
 * 11) "periareolar"

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 20


 * 1) Chinese corpora
 * 2) UN languages
 * 3) male sonantes

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 21


 * 1) Desk officer
 * 2) name of drawing
 * 3) operative trauma Talk:Penile plethysmograph
 * 4) "bulk-producing"
 * 5) Value of a book
 * 6) unusual declension of the Latin noun aedes
 * 7) Chinese grammar

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 22


 * 1) "privately-held"
 * 2) N Word
 * 3) Kilometre Pronunciation

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 23


 * 1) Greek Title
 * 2) Russian text on a memorial monument
 * 3) Greek name style
 * 4) Indian
 * 5) The teen numbers in other languages
 * 6) ...his viva in medicine
 * 7) Hand that feeds...and...?
 * 8) Qirlo-Qerlo
 * 9) Bless your (his/her etc.) cotton socks

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 24


 * 1) Etymology of 'extemporise'
 * 2) looking for the word for
 * 3) thematic priorities
 * 4) Asya
 * 5) Time was
 * 6) Is it possible to be ambitious without being pretentious?
 * 7) Quoi vs. que and other French grammar questions...
 * 8) 2008-06-24 C > WIKIPEDIA = A NEW BWORD IN THE BLOGOSPHERE??
 * 9) Eat your "vége"
 * 10) Language differences between British and American English

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 25


 * 1) French translation
 * 2) What does "great primer" mean?
 * 3) spelling
 * 4) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/EC#Initialism
 * 5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music#Noatikl

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 26


 * 1) What is the plural of "how-to" when used as a noun?
 * 2) In versus On
 * 3) Have a life
 * 4) Mesleems
 * 5) English-language term for SS person-unit
 * 6) Verb tense
 * 7) "Whether"

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 27


 * 1) a / an
 * 2) chanbara-go
 * 3) Hebrew
 * 4) Arabic for "network"?
 * 5) private
 * 6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilia#Cilium-related_disease
 * 7) Lace-making
 * 8) anatomies VS anatomy
 * 9) No-one vs. no one

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 28


 * 1) Celtic language pronunciation
 * 2) Request for Danish translation
 * 3) Vandalize
 * 4) French translation

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 29


 * 1) Thanks, good work on orange
 * 2) Language/word pronounciation
 * 3) what is the meaning of “make a bomb"?
 * 4) German question
 * 5) lorem ipsum
 * 6) Klaus Kinski interview
 * 7) "Enigma was among the first recording groups to use direct to HD recording studio and non-percussion musical instrument and vocal samples..."

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 30


 * 1) Freud in Portuguese: "Arquitectura animica"
 * 2) Spainish help
 * 3) Wedding congratulations in French
 * 4) Pronunciation of 'P' in German
 * 5) Help with a sentence in Turkish
 * 6) Use of full-stops, closing brackets, commas etc in Setswana
 * 7) Indonesian
 * 8) Name of school in Reims, France, 1945
 * 9) Alphabetical order of persons' names and numbers in featured lists
 * 10) One Syllable?