Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2009

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 1


 * 1) Blood
 * 2) Breendonk vs. Breendonck
 * 3) Two questions about German pronouns
 * 4) The Outsiders
 * 5) Japanese translation
 * 6) Random German question
 * 7) Languages with only one preposition
 * 8) German railway term

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 2


 * 1) A few things I want to know how to say in chinese.
 * 2) Bathroom / Restroom
 * 3) Alemannic Kraut
 * 4) Egg-ague merger
 * 5) brain tweezer
 * 6) Origins of the last name Boxerbaum
 * 7) "Joe the Plumber"-type names
 * 8) Linguistics Careers
 * 9) Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 2
 * 10) Spanish: Difference between hambre & hambruna.
 * 11) Quotations and punctuation

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 3


 * 1) What is a "killing oak"?
 * 2) Shoot 'em Up
 * 3) Latin paradigm populations
 * 4) Correct use of comma
 * 5) Name for a person who makes excessive spoken use of a particular word?
 * 6) -tal vs. -thal (ending for surnames and place names)
 * 7) Gay son
 * 8) Word choice
 * 9) what is this rhetorical tactic called?
 * 10) Literary Awards

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 4


 * 1) Hungarian references: 19th century electrical inventions by Jedlik
 * 2) Name origin for D'elormie
 * 3) Word for the animal vs. the word for the meat
 * 4) name for a concept
 * 5) Use of "only" in sentence structure
 * 6) An archaic culinary name for gull meat?

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 5


 * 1) spanish translation, ribbed condoms
 * 2) General foreign accent
 * 3) Japanese pronunciation
 * 4) Language proficiency displayed on one's person
 * 5) Russian dates
 * 6) Swedish song title
 * 7) Prepositions

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 6


 * 1) Latin: pecatoribus or peccatoribus?
 * 2) Thought-terminating clichés
 * 3) Dangling superlative on CNN
 * 4) Latin>English translation to verify, please
 * 5) Need quote attribution
 * 6) Spanish

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 7


 * 1) Synonym
 * 2) Typing Korean on Windows PC
 * 3) arabic word noor
 * 4) Horse sense
 * 5) Subject verb agreement

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 8


 * 1) Amanda Strang
 * 2) Communicating meaning with distant space aliens - no pictures allowed
 * 3) what does anbu mean in japanese
 * 4) Syntax highlighting in English?
 * 5) spanish translation
 * 6) pawing:  Can a horse "paw" the ground?

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 9


 * 1) Accent and deafness
 * 2) Sentence diagrams
 * 3) Waqf registry
 * 4) Untangle a sentence from Kipling?
 * 5) Comma usage
 * 6) Meaning of "say"

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 10


 * 1) Preposition for address
 * 2) Question about Teacher's job
 * 3) Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 10
 * 4) Radix malorum est cupiditas
 * 5) Comma here and give me an answer

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 11


 * 1) Urdu, anyone?
 * 2) Archaic writing
 * 3) american people vs. American people vs. American People
 * 4) Capitilisation

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 12


 * 1) Double negative
 * 2) Question for a Latin speaker/writer
 * 3) Was/Were
 * 4) Further Russian questions

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 13


 * 1) Pronunciation
 * 2) Coptic/Greek Translation
 * 3) Origin of the word "Taxi"
 * 4) ASL
 * 5) Translation into balinese script
 * 6) portuguese psychoanalysis term: 'vida pulsional'
 * 7) How is the word "mobile" pronounced?

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 14


 * 1) eat one's head off?
 * 2) Welsh

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 15


 * 1) Elie Wiesel
 * 2) The numbers two and eleven as numerals in Chinese script
 * 3) Happy coincidence
 * 4) Reverse dictionary ?
 * 5) Word choice
 * 6) Prescription drugs
 * 7) Interrobangs and Spanish
 * 8) Turkish

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 16


 * 1) choom
 * 2) Gaoliang
 * 3) Hebrew: US official language
 * 4) Are these words German?
 * 5) Habermas and Anglo-Saxon

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 17


 * 1) Passover and Easter -- translations and etymologies
 * 2) Quote often misattributed to Dan Quayle
 * 3) German
 * 4) The Red Sea - Mistranslation

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 18


 * 1) Armada, marina
 * 2) Ambiguously Middle Eastern/Indian/South Asian name?
 * 3) What about ...
 * 4) Is the word still used
 * 5) I am natural
 * 6) Currency symbol

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 19


 * 1) Chinese translation request
 * 2) Restroom for disabled/handicapped/?
 * 3) Mishu

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 20


 * 1) Power Builder 6.5 and 8.0.4 Problem.
 * 2) Phonetic XML schema
 * 3) Two and two

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 21


 * 1) Fingers
 * 2) Medical college?
 * 3) Capitalisation in titles of works
 * 4) Reduplication kanji
 * 5) Translation French to Englush

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 22


 * 1) Numerals in Khmer
 * 2) Most ambiguous acronym
 * 3) Code-switching
 * 4) Collocation

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 23


 * 1) Dag Hammarskjold Pronunciation
 * 2) first mystery novel
 * 3) No beginning sentences with an arabic numeral
 * 4) learning a new launguage

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 24


 * 1) De-facto Chinese "dialect" language subcodes
 * 2) "I will/shall drown, no one shall/will save me"
 * 3) Wolves, dogs and foxes
 * 4) Are these good Chinese names for me?
 * 5) Another grammar question
 * 6) Pronunciation of names in Norse mythology in Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish
 * 7) Help identifying a French exclamation/interjection
 * 8) reason ("God")
 * 9) Emphasis, exclamation points, etc.

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 25


 * 1) macdonalds advertising in indian languages in san jose, california
 * 2) "There's" followed by a plural word

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 26


 * 1) Mistaken common knowledge
 * 2) William
 * 3) Plural
 * 4) Define prototheory
 * 5) Dr. Masayoshi = Masayoshi Arai, Mayor of Yaotsu?
 * 6) Japanese funeral help
 * 7) Playing cards together

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 27


 * 1) Euphemisms
 * 2) Translation of the word "Nachtschleife"

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 28


 * 1) Revolver in a person's sleeve
 * 2) Faspa

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 29


 * 1) This needs polishing

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 30


 * 1) What modifiers modify
 * 2) Two questions from above
 * 3) Translation into German
 * 4) word pronunciation

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 31


 * 1) Hebrew grammar/translation help please
 * 2) For good or bad?
 * 3) "Settle in"
 * 4) Phesant = peasant?