Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2008

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 1


 * 1) Air Force's new slogan
 * 2) More subject / verb
 * 3) Japanese audio lessons
 * 4) Synonym of worldly
 * 5) Academic equivalent of pimp

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 2


 * 1) Interpretation of a symbol:くぁ
 * 2) Definitions of the word "interesting"
 * 3)  consuelos consuegros
 * 4) is there a hungarian version of this reference desk
 * 5) Use of Latin across the Roman Empire
 * 6) Grammar correct?
 * 7) Use of the signal sic
 * 8) NAEYC
 * 9) Narratives, use of pronouns: I or me?

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 3


 * 1) Pronunciation: IPA for the word "anole"
 * 2) Corrected colloquialisms: "proof in the pudding"
 * 3) Robert Bly poem
 * 4) Sounds: dental, alveolar, and postalveolar
 * 5) Rounded lips during  and
 * 6) Knowledge of  communication  skills in  discussions

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 4


 * 1) Prepositions at the end of a sentence
 * 2) How to say "bad-mouthing" in a less informal way?
 * 3) going on grammatically without any punctuation

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 5


 * 1) Most heavily punctuated sentence
 * 2) Saffron and "bastard saffron"
 * 3) Identifying poem and poet: a spider and a watch
 * 4) Deünhille
 * 5) Latin phrase: "in cauda venenum"
 * 6) Correct wording: film credits under an assumed name
 * 7) These versus those
 * 8) Word choice: using big impressive words
 * 9) How do you say mouse in Japanese?
 * 10) Punctuation: use of the slash in complex cases
 * 11) Hyphenation in complex cases
 * 12) "Needs cleaned"

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 6


 * 1) Say what?!?: use of multiple punctuation marks
 * 2) How are sound changes found?
 * 3) Brief translation of Japanese, please.
 * 4) Authors "writing as"
 * 5) Some grammar: singular or plural in continuing a sentence?
 * 6) things that are impossible to talk about?

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 7


 * 1) Aboriginal languages in Northern Ontario?
 * 2) meaning of "works"
 * 3) languages : how to say the F word in German, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian
 * 4) The proper treatment of screws
 * 5) Translation of Japanese and Chinese Wikipedia articles on Zen
 * 6) From unknown to certain

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 8


 * 1) Sweden-Finland engineering connection: bridge, or tunnel?
 * 2) Meaning and language origins of a word: vouzon
 * 3) What makes something dramatic?
 * 4) Is there a specific name for a town celebrating its 190th anniversary?
 * 5) Bob O'Billovich

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 9

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 9


 * 1) A few terms: passive subjectivism, taboo, shifting temporal frame
 * 2) shaft in spanish
 * 3) phrase structure
 * 4) More than disapproval
 * 5) England and Wales
 * 6) Words ending "LT"
 * 7) Pronunciation of extinct languages
 * 8) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 9#.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fen.wikipedia.org.2Fwiki.2FMarathi_language.23Writing.5D from .5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.omniglot.com.2Fwriting.2Fmarathi.htm Marathi language, alphabet and pronunciation.5D| from Marathi language, alphabet and pronunciation]]

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 10


 * 1) English-Arabic Translation
 * 2) Question: What is the correct pronunciation of "kilometre"?
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 10#On .5Bhttp:.2F.2Fen.wikipedia.org.2Fwiki.2FYi_script.23Classical_Yi Classical Yi.5D|On Classical Yi]]
 * 4) English: plural of "curriculum"?
 * 5) Is this for real or a programmer's joke.
 * 6) Software(s): what is the correct plural?

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 11


 * 1) Mistranslation from Japanese
 * 2) Margarine, Margaret and soft/hard g
 * 3) Arabic
 * 4) Please correct my text about an excerpt from book about apartheid!
 * 5) Russian translation
 * 6) Orchestra's relation to conductor
 * 7) Rules of grammar
 * 8) An ambitious person

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 12


 * 1) Japanese honorifics
 * 2) Whoever or whomever?
 * 3) bouquet, or bouguet?
 * 4) Success/downfall: one word meaning both?
 * 5) Latin term for a specific legal concept
 * 6) Google as a verb: ever intransitive?
 * 7) Please assist: pay rates for transcribing audio?
 * 8) Lebanese (Arabic) translation
 * 9) Punctuation in headings: a full stop at the end?
 * 10) Asking the impossible

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 13


 * 1) Chinese phrasing for how a character is composed?
 * 2) Interwiki checking request at Legal code (municipal)
 * 3) Etymology of Sweater
 * 4) Marines: must it always be capitalized?
 * 5) Badge in Spanish
 * 6) Either/or
 * 7) search engines as concordancers, or free online ones
 * 8) Orthographic usage: centimeter and centimetre

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 14


 * 1) How to pronounce: Leah Buechley?
 * 2) If Australian books have their spelling and grammar changed...?
 * 3) Chinese annal and article
 * 4) English usage: "Me either" v. "Me neither"
 * 5) English: How do I speak good grammar?
 * 6) Love: how to say "I love you" in Italian?
 * 7) Here we go again ... singular versus plural

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 15


 * 1) Pain interjections
 * 2) What is 'Lacanians' and 'Freudian' ?
 * 3) alternate for 'fuck'
 * 4) One Word for "repressing sexuality"?

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 16


 * 1) Colour perception: what differences can language make?
 * 2) Strength/weakness: one word
 * 3) Is Uruguay unique?
 * 4) As a means _____

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 17


 * 1) whats mulling mean?
 * 2) Oriental or Asian?
 * 3) strain in spanish
 * 4) US vs USA
 * 5) Japanese Sound Symbolism
 * 6) How to say in Japanese...

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 18


 * 1) The Bridge on the River Kwai
 * 2) Generic country names
 * 3) Numbers written out?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 19


 * 1) Attribution of movie quotes
 * 2) Gänsefüßchen
 * 3) K ever pronounced in a word including kn?

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 20


 * 1) Translation from Hebrew, please
 * 2) "The Govs Must Be Horny"
 * 3) Japanese pronunciation of Chinese names
 * 4) Czech declensions
 * 5) None satisfy vs. None satisfies
 * 6) Meitei Mayek script
 * 7) mexican currency
 * 8) Any silent letters in Latin?
 * 9) Moran Cho/Margaret Cho in Korean and romanized korean

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 21


 * 1) Need assistance with a Japanese sentence
 * 2) Hunmin Jeongeum
 * 3) subject changes within a complex English sentence

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 22


 * 1) Pronounciation: Pfizer
 * 2) Original Languages
 * 3) female actor
 * 4) Lit or lighted?
 * 5) Took VS Taken

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 23


 * 1) how do you get a job as a court translator
 * 2) Mary Yamashiro Otani in Japanese
 * 3) Has anyone noticed
 * 4) what is an offensive way to refer to a woman that sexualizes her?
 * 5) Analysis: Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate
 * 6) God Willing?

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 24


 * 1) What language is this?
 * 2) JC-1 H1 History: Realpolitik? Kremlin? Manichean?
 * 3) waterboarding
 * 4) Registered Trademark usage
 * 5) Textbook for X bar Theory

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 25


 * 1) beads
 * 2) Universal Translator
 * 3) Name of profession
 * 4) Ambiguity he/him
 * 5) Hebrew font formatting problem in FAC candidate Tel Aviv
 * 6) Holocaust
 * 7) Enunciated T
 * 8) Is it proper to use ð in English?

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 26


 * 1) Grammatical mood
 * 2) what's the adverb for mediocre?
 * 3) Cotton in shirts: 100, 140, 180
 * 4) Pronounciation of Über- as in überkid, übergeek etc.
 * 5) Spelling used in New Orleans
 * 6) What's the word!!
 * 7) Translation help
 * 8) Moderately-sized Chinese translation.
 * 9) order of compounds in ethnicity
 * 10) Doing blood work

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 27


 * 1) Offensive word for black kid
 * 2) Translating a Power Rangers song to Spanish
 * 3) Expression of surprise
 * 4) Mandarin
 * 5) Articles before brackets

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 28


 * 1) make money
 * 2) Urgent comma help
 * 3) Proper demonym for New Zealand
 * 4) Unusual name
 * 5) Columbite
 * 6) English compound words and hyphens
 * 7) Greek word
 * 8) Business name change
 * 9) Transitive procrastination
 * 10) Harakat
 * 11) riddle mania
 * 12) warden in spanish
 * 13) Spaetzle
 * 14) Dialect and accent domination

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 29


 * 1) Pronunciation of Vortigern
 * 2) Translation from Russian
 * 3) Plural of "die"
 * 4) rebbetzin

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 30


 * 1) Spanish translation
 * 2) Spanish translation
 * 3) Farsi translation of English 'witch'
 * 4) gayelle
 * 5) economics term
 * 6) cross worn on the body
 * 7) 'out of 10' vs. 'of out 10'
 * 8) Possessives

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 31


 * 1) Fred makes a stirling effort
 * 2) Definition
 * 3) Gerunds
 * 4) Correct punctuation
 * 5) "Was" or "were"?