Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2010

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 1


 * 1) Resonances??
 * 2) Capitalization of ranks and titles and names
 * 3) Spoken idiosyncrasy
 * 4) Ring inscription
 * 5) Translation of a French Military Unit name
 * 6) Help me decoding this arabic/french
 * 7) Old Swedish tune
 * 8) Arabic name for Tel Aviv district
 * 9) Japanese sentence help
 * 10) Makh Tsi Di Eygelakh
 * 11) Independent or dependent clause?

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 2


 * 1) Children learning multiple languages
 * 2) Why is there not a word "firmen"?

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 3


 * 1) English to Japanese
 * 2) What does Celine Dion say?
 * 3) Correct capitalization for surnames
 * 4) Latin translation / Charles V
 * 5) Congruent
 * 6) Greek and Russian I think
 * 7) Japanese verb form
 * 8) Chinese pronunciation

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 4


 * 1) Harappan Seals Website
 * 2) Afination?
 * 3) Đ & Ð

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 5


 * 1) on grammatical reference
 * 2) This is how you do it
 * 3) Translation from Hungarian
 * 4) Damning praise
 * 5) Japanse sentence help -- contraction?
 * 6) French translation
 * 7) Assistance is needed from someone who can read Indic script

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 6


 * 1) Please help with a Middle (?) English expression
 * 2) Latin language
 * 3) Japanese sentence help -- 何もかもしよう
 * 4) "It was about some stuff" or similar...
 * 5) Chinese character

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 7


 * 1) Japanese translation
 * 2) on a conjunction in German
 * 3) I can't believe it's not a colon (or is it?)
 * 4) What would be a good antonym for "simulation"
 * 5) What language is spoken by this choir?
 * 6) Antillean Creole and Haitian Creole

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 8


 * 1) Translation for "Sauglattismus"
 * 2) Cyrillic-alphabet text, which language?
 * 3) History of "the"
 * 4) able to

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 9


 * 1) Jump meaning in Japan
 * 2) Extravagances and extravaganzas
 * 3) Japanese sentence help -- 宿の件
 * 4) The Simpsons in Catalan

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 10


 * 1) Estonian labour parties
 * 2) Language used in the KJV Bible
 * 3) IPA help requested.
 * 4) Spanish transcription and translation

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 11


 * 1) 500-word Swadesh List?
 * 2) -ization
 * 3) Therapeutiae
 * 4) quaid e milleth
 * 5) Best first language
 * 6) Language with most rigid syntax
 * 7) Translation help from German

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 12


 * 1) hair dropping on to the cheeks on female face, what's it called?
 * 2) Japanese sentence help -- いいなか
 * 3) The etymology of adj. ‘analytic’ in the academic discipline of ‘analytic philosophy’
 * 4) phonetics help
 * 5) her und hier

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 13


 * 1) What do you call this seed?
 * 2) Japanese sentence -- なれ
 * 3) Is cr*p a swear word?
 * 4) Japanese
 * 5) Morgen
 * 6) Notwithstanding
 * 7) Translation into Italian
 * 8) "Was a former"

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 14


 * 1) The phonetic transcription /ˌmænɪˈtoʊbə/ (Manitoba)
 * 2) Unusual use of "The" for a German speaker of English
 * 3) Translate short Latin passage
 * 4) German pronunciation of s and ess-tsett
 * 5) Japanese "probable" mood
 * 6) Ambiguity of “Mitsubishi car”
 * 7) Is the pronunciation for "Only" a regional thing?
 * 8) Kanji problems
 * 9) Can the expression "There is Y for X" be replaced by the expression "X has Y"?
 * 10) ESPN's use of African language

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 15


 * 1) Spanish Translation
 * 2) WWII wireless operator in AE
 * 3) Turned out well
 * 4) Etymology of "to hail from"
 * 5) 'Firing For Effect'

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 16


 * 1) Mandarin in Japanese
 * 2) Derivation of the word "Laodicea"
 * 3) Maori in letters
 * 4) Word Usage
 * 5) Archaic Dutch declension
 * 6) English for Swedish "Idrott"

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 17


 * 1) Asking about quantity in English
 * 2) German "beziehungsweise" (bzw.)
 * 3) Ancient Greek Transcription/Transliteration/Translation Query
 * 4) Damn'?
 * 5) Feitknechtit
 * 6) Declensions of "just"

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 18


 * 1) What is so special about accents, that makes them so difficult?
 * 2) -er vs. -eer in English
 * 3) Mental health care: consumer, user or client?
 * 4) Lena's bizarre accent
 * 5) Chinese translation request
 * 6) Translate from Japanese to English

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 19


 * 1) Translation Into Japanese
 * 2) Announcing Eurovision results
 * 3) pronunciation of Yue ware
 * 4) Does saying, "It still begs the question" another name for circular reasoning?
 * 5) Garden or yard
 * 6) Down Pat

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 20


 * 1) Adjective for Family resemblance
 * 2) Mutual intelligibility of written languages using Chinese characters
 * 3) Forgetting one's language
 * 4) Meaning of the word "Tambja"
 * 5) Word: Vuvuzela
 * 6) South African English
 * 7) USA English
 * 8) Is it offensive to say "Kill the lights?"
 * 9) Best verb to use for "destroyed" in this context - German
 * 10) What is the English word
 * 11) Cycle to date
 * 12) What is this grammatical error called?

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 21


 * 1) Etymology of the idiom 吹毛求疪
 * 2) How can I get Unicode range of a Language.
 * 3) -ian vs. -esque
 * 4) more Deutsch help needed
 * 5) what is the word for the 'negative feeling'
 * 6) Verses in "An Mhaighdean Mhara" (Irish)

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 22


 * 1) Possible dangling modifier
 * 2) Martian Language
 * 3) 'Dirty big' and 'dirty great'
 * 4) What is the right word here
 * 5) Crystal Chrystal surname

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 23


 * 1) translation
 * 2) WP:RUS and BGN/PCGN do not concern names/toponyms or parts of them, which are written originally in Latin alphabet and are not Russian
 * 3) Poetry
 * 4) Hebrew inscription
 * 5) Help in locating French book
 * 6) Japanese News Source for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood announcement

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 24


 * 1) "Taal" language?
 * 2) Future languages of Wikipedia
 * 3) term for hypocritical situation

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 25


 * 1) Mensch from German or Yiddish?

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 26


 * 1) classical lanquages
 * 2) Proverbial translation
 * 3) Verdun
 * 4) Chinese word Gui (歸)

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 27


 * 1) Phonetic transcription of Norwegian
 * 2) What's wrong with this sentence?
 * 3) Translation; English -> Lakota
 * 4) Big band furniture
 * 5) Vietnamese "ph" instead of "f"
 * 6) Pronouncing s like sh, e.g. in "last" year - pronounced like: "lasht" year, in some American accents.
 * 7) Chinese reading help
 * 8) Difference.

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 28


 * 1) Crossword clue?
 * 2) AAVE - Southern American English
 * 3) Thoribism
 * 4) Working as a French-Spanish translator?
 * 5) Question on a Japanese word -- 涯

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 29


 * 1) Argumentative phrase
 * 2) Translation from Finnish
 * 3) Use of "me"
 * 4) German vocabulary question
 * 5) Greek in Gaudy Night
 * 6) In French: the meaning of l'axe

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 30


 * 1) non-offensive wordlist
 * 2) What is the term for the person (other than a ‘pedant’)
 * 3) Is it ‘snap’ or something else?
 * 4) Forearm limp
 * 5) Right to Left
 * 6) Japanese Mole
 * 7) French translation
 * 8) Japanese
 * 9) Greek translation