Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2011

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 1


 * 1) Complementary distribution of the allophones of /θ/
 * 2) Infinite forms of "Dare" and "Need" as modal verbs.

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 2


 * 1) Where does the word aint originate from
 * 2) Handwritten hiragana (Japanese)

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 3


 * 1) What does Como una flor que necesita el aqua Sin tu amor se marchita mi alma mean in Spanish?
 * 2) Pitman shorthand
 * 3) Lower case titles / upper case titles
 * 4) Swedish Wikipedia / admin who speaks English
 * 5) Turkish neologisms
 * 6) "a part" vs. "part"
 * 7) Etymology of two Japanese names?

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 4


 * 1) To Kill A Mockingbird
 * 2) Deity pronouns in Chinese
 * 3) Isaiah 25:6
 * 4) Yes, please
 * 5) What does this Latin phrase mean?
 * 6) Two side of the same coin?

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 5


 * 1) Crossword puzzle stumper
 * 2) Japanese name "Hero"

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 7


 * 1) Indonesian help
 * 2) Armenian help
 * 3) Spellings with 3 pronunciations
 * 4) 9 letter English word
 * 5) What does this edit summary mean? Language Unknown
 * 6) Happy Birthday in German
 * 7) Can you refer to an inanimate entity as 'who'

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 8


 * 1) French: la "langue romane"?
 * 2) Emigration
 * 3) Indian pronunciation
 * 4) [ʒ] in English

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 9


 * 1) Comma placement
 * 2) Luxury yachts' original names?

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 10


 * 1) what language is this?
 * 2) Jack (connector)
 * 3) What is an imagefilm?
 * 4) Italian
 * 5) The pronunciation of "iron" in non-rhotic dialects
 * 6) Regurgitate

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 11


 * 1) Anatole is not from Anatolia
 * 2) Umlauts in Turkish
 * 3) Sound description in sign languages

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 12


 * 1) Translation, bitte
 * 2) English Words with Accents

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 13


 * 1) "Poor little" and "Big old"
 * 2) Appeal to age? Argumentum ad...
 * 3) Swedish/German translation question
 * 4) Is there a word (or term) for "self-fortification-after-being-heavily-used"?

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 14


 * 1) Japanese translation request
 * 2) X as a prefix
 * 3) Hakka Chinese Romanization
 * 4) x-j switch in Spanish-American places

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 15


 * 1) When did Proto-Indo-European split up into its different sub-branches?
 * 2) For any two pairs of languages, how many commons speakers are there worldwide?
 * 3) Smokey Stover comic image
 * 4) "Ham"
 * 5) Spanish Translation of an article
 * 6) Hebrew: counterintuitive deleting order of niqqud

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 16


 * 1) Everybody Loves Reimund?
 * 2) How do you spell "Manuchi"?
 * 3) A different language?
 * 4) Meaning "jumps"
 * 5) National demonyms and politeness

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 17


 * 1) "jiggity-jog"
 * 2) presti-jicus
 * 3) Under multiple wings
 * 4) 'etymology' or history of 'bat shit'
 * 5) German "zug" (in all its meanings) in English
 * 6) /r/ in Italian vs Spanish

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 18


 * 1) Russian
 * 2) Tsi-zhu in Osage
 * 3) salvationary?
 * 4) 65'ers?

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 19


 * 1) Enforced redundancy

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 20


 * 1) Opposite of paedophile
 * 2) Parrots
 * 3) pronunciation of Arthurian names
 * 4) Where Is The Evidence That Every Subsequent Language Learned Makes It Easier
 * 5) Identifying unfamiliar languages by their leaving a "signature", e.g. characteristic consonant clusters, etc.
 * 6) English in the future

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 21


 * 1) "Experience" vs. "experiences"
 * 2) Old Church Slavonic
 * 3) What is the word please?
 * 4) The meaning of the Latin word "sed"

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 22


 * 1) How are you? Ca va? etc.
 * 2) verbatim
 * 3) Italiano
 * 4) Swedish: "Vemska la leba"

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 23


 * 1) How is Ø written?
 * 2) speaking foreign words in Swedish
 * 3) Cockle' pills ?  Stays ?
 * 4) "methods of" vs "methods for"
 * 5) Two sets of brackets coming together like this (blah)(blah blah)
 * 6) Practical Drawl

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 24


 * 1) Term for a form of political dishonesty
 * 2) Qui-hi
 * 3) What do you call it when an instruction is phrased like a question? (and other questions)
 * 4) I'd like some [real-world] vandalism translated
 * 5) Claim in Antidisestablishmentarianism
 * 6) Wagon Pars - speak 'iranian' ?

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 25


 * 1) Spoken language identification
 * 2) Capitalization of "but"
 * 3) Spanish terms - pronunciation

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 26


 * 1) Translate to Hawaiian
 * 2) Good resource for learning the Queen's English (RP) accent?
 * 3) Chinese reading help
 * 4) Grammar structure
 * 5) transitive uses of "dissemble"

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 27


 * 1) What does the Alaskan accent sound like
 * 2) Trap basalt - etymology
 * 3) vegetables
 * 4) Unknown Korean words

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 28


 * 1) Chinese verbal particles and complements
 * 2) Question about the word "HAVE" in Latin
 * 3) Questions on meanings of some words from Mrs Amworth
 * 4) Fussable Chasselais
 * 5) Korean text

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 29


 * 1) Wikisource template in Korean
 * 2) Rockefeller University motto
 * 3) Different alphabets/scripts/writing systems
 * 4) Distinct reflexive pronouns
 * 5) "She" or "Her"?
 * 6) Chart of suffix-based verb derivatives in English.

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 30


 * 1) German Warsteiner
 * 2) Is this quote real?
 * 3) More Korean help
 * 4) Parkinson's disease
 * 5) -ling