Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2014

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 1


 * 1) Why are bananas yellow?
 * 2) terms of endearment Lithuanian

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 2


 * 1) funny military name
 * 2) Pronunciation of "almond"

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 3


 * 1) Does "all but X"  have two opposite meanings?
 * 2) Chinese text on map
 * 3) Punctuation

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 4


 * 1) pentasyllabic
 * 2) Word for legal ambiguity
 * 3) A word for "(being) as politically incorrect as possible"?

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 5


 * 1) Thousand Families Poetry
 * 2) Forming a cross-person genitive.

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 6


 * 1) Spanish translation requested
 * 2) God Love
 * 3) Gender

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 7


 * 1) Japanese fire extinguisher image question: transcription and translation
 * 2) An easy one
 * 3) How would you say "intriguing / interesting   question",   in one word?
 * 4) What is the correct term?
 * 5) Evolution of language

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 8


 * 1) Iconic but canonical?
 * 2) unicode ttf font with zhuyin or pinyin

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 9


 * 1) Kahanamoku
 * 2) Difference between ɻ and ɹ

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 10


 * 1) Obligate carnivores
 * 2) French -> English translation requested
 * 3) universal human language
 * 4) the poetry of Chaos

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 11


 * 1) Pronunciation of 'protocol'
 * 2) Simple past vs. present perfect in a business email
 * 3) Article or no article?

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 12


 * 1) 人間宣言 (Language used in Humanity Declaration)

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 13


 * 1) writing systems
 * 2) Usage of "cloister" for monastic buildings that may not have a cloister?

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 14


 * 1) Subject-object-verb construction
 * 2) Translation request: "reciting the Catholic scriptures" in Chinese
 * 3) Biology
 * 4) Spanish acronyms
 * 5) Is the following sentence acceptable to the native speakers of English?
 * 6) Latin caption (translation needed)
 * 7) Is there male equivalent of "mumsy"?

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 15


 * 1) Sued for $1m
 * 2) What is the correct form: "From where?", or: "Where from?"
 * 3) Inconsistency (?) at vowel
 * 4) primigravida and primipara
 * 5) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 15#How_did_.5Bhttps:.2F.2Fwww.flickr.com.2Fphotos.2Fgabenell.2F2658138172.2F_this_Engrish_mistranslation.5D_come_to_be.3F|How did this Engrish mistranslation come to be?]]

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 16


 * 1) Gerund +ing in lists
 * 2) Correct usage of " effect" and "affect"
 * 3) He married her. He married them.
 * 4) What is the best way to describe the many Chinese dialects?
 * 5) Word for spring flower scentr

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 17


 * 1) Opposite of tonogenesis?
 * 2) Request for transcription of Urdu and Hindi
 * 3) Article writing

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 18


 * 1) Is "northeast" a word?
 * 2) surfer rosa

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 19


 * 1) ‘someone or something’
 * 2) [ɹ] and [ɻ]
 * 3) Everybody and nobody

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 20


 * 1) Does grammar change when a word in brackets is added?
 * 2) valedictions
 * 3) Tag question
 * 4) Nickelodeon network's highest rated show

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 21


 * 1) Life goes on, bra

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 22


 * 1) the meaning of "warren"
 * 2) proud-chested bookcases
 * 3) Frying in human fat
 * 4) South by Southwest
 * 5) Excessive pride in one's culture

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 23


 * 1) Word for an opening on the door of a speakeasy

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 25


 * 1) Czech translation help requested
 * 2) Japanese to English Translation, 1Q84
 * 3) How do you correctly spell "cayotee" (i.e. a kind of jackal or hyena)?

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 26


 * 1) Need help thinking up a name for a fictional disorder

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 27


 * 1) superscripts in abbreviations
 * 2) Luxembourgish
 * 3) Playing an instrument

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 28


 * 1) denatus commentum terenti
 * 2) Valid physical object itself
 * 3) Vespers in the morning in the Lutheran church?
 * 4) Cipher or language?

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 29


 * 1) An old technology for animal control
 * 2) Typo gunman vs. gunmen in Annalena Tonelli
 * 3) Etymology of ‘Wolfenstein’
 * 4) Rastrum or rastral?

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 30


 * 1) Irregular words — what are they made of?
 * 2) the meaning of Hollywoodism