Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2011

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 1


 * 1) Needing a Specific Word
 * 2) Chinese language
 * 3) Is the following pair of the sentences felicitous?
 * 4) Latvian treatment of foreign names
 * 5) Insurance
 * 6) Foreign language help

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 2


 * 1) Expressing emotions in tonal languages
 * 2) "The" in front of a person's name
 * 3) Chinese translation
 * 4) Elvedin (given name)
 * 5) Stuttering and Slurring
 * 6) Linguistics

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 3


 * 1) Tai chi chuan pronunciation
 * 2) Aram Khachaturian - Correct Armenian / Russian pronunciation
 * 3) Pronunciation of West Anglia
 * 4) Communicating while relating Schedule information
 * 5) French words ending in -ent

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 4


 * 1) Two chameleons or four?
 * 2) Biweekly, bimonthly, biannual
 * 3) Word order
 * 4) What does "irakere" mean, exactly?

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 5


 * 1) Fandex?
 * 2) Why did Beijing used to be called Peking?
 * 3) French speaker help
 * 4) Notorious
 * 5) coordinate adjectives comma use

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 6


 * 1) Common term for a modus ponens thing
 * 2) French oe ligature
 * 3) Word for family relationship to oneself
 * 4) Japanese translation needed, please
 * 5) Possesive form of "sons of Ishmael."
 * 6) Transposition of consonants in the Lucknow area
 * 7) Molecular orbital theory
 * 8) adverb placement

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 7


 * 1) Help with Russian, Turkish, and Arabic
 * 2) Pretest Probablity and Statistics
 * 3) Chinese and Tamil help
 * 4) "Farther" in British English
 * 5) "There", "they're", "their" confusion.
 * 6) IPA transcription

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 8


 * 1) Spanish language
 * 2) Use of "would" in AmE
 * 3) Feet tangled up
 * 4) In what language is this song?
 * 5) Translation from Farsi
 * 6) Latin expression for "it's defined along the way"
 * 7) Arabic translation

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 9


 * 1) Irrepressible
 * 2) Neutral Target?
 * 3) Quetions from an English exam.
 * 4) Pasty or pastry?
 * 5) What is the average sentence length in English?
 * 6) "Allahu Akbar" in Iraqi/Mesopotamian Arabic

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 10


 * 1) Grammar exam
 * 2) Is this a fragment, a run on or a correct sentence?
 * 3) Risk Ratification
 * 4) Arabic: Deaborn Public Schools
 * 5) (Japanese) A food ingredient
 * 6) Bilanz?

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 11


 * 1) Hindi Help
 * 2) Urdu and Lao Help
 * 3) Decreased prosody of speech
 * 4) Latin -ae plurals
 * 5) Cambodian/Khmer help
 * 6) Italian

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 12


 * 1) Japanese word order
 * 2) More Arabic help
 * 3) Proper use of "big" in "it is that big" and "how big is this"
 * 4) Origin of term hellcat
 * 5) Anna at the door
 * 6) Looking for name of English tense or term
 * 7) double translation
 * 8) The Queen as Granny/Grandma/Gran/Nana
 * 9) What would you call someone who studies carnivals?
 * 10) Alphabetizing names
 * 11) Words of indeterminate etymology

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 13


 * 1) The article "a" versus "an"
 * 2) Square as surname
 * 3) Singular or plural nouns and verbs
 * 4) Which letters
 * 5) British accent

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 14


 * 1) French stress
 * 2) Hindi help
 * 3) You talkin' to me?
 * 4) Couple
 * 5) Looking for semantic labels
 * 6) Rating quality of content

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 15


 * 1) Deloculated
 * 2) A positive rant
 * 3) Bizarre Sentence Stress on UK News Reports
 * 4) Scrabble word list / dictionary disparity
 * 5) (G/K/Kh/Q)addafi

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 16


 * 1) Polytheama / Politeama
 * 2) Brazilian Portuguese
 * 3) An Exultation of Larks
 * 4) Commentary on a writing issue
 * 5) Akihito's speech
 * 6) Ambiguity of 'free' in other languages
 * 7) Doubled consonants

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 17


 * 1) Sentence structure
 * 2) Origin of a last name
 * 3) Surname in Swahili
 * 4) Pronunciation of can't
 * 5) What/which
 * 6) Singer/finger split?
 * 7) Strange title
 * 8) Language Of In-Game Music
 * 9) Philosophical Term

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 18


 * 1) Conjugations of "to souvenir" [?]
 * 2) Japanese nuclear accident vehicle
 * 3) Drag and burn
 * 4) Juncture

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 19


 * 1) Translating an English page into French
 * 2) grauben, gräuben
 * 3) "Tell"?
 * 4) 'How came you'

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 20


 * 1) Strange or unique verbs
 * 2) Greek, Hindi, Russian, Punjabi, and Serbian help
 * 3) deutsch grammatik
 * 4) Traditional Chinese help

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 21


 * 1) Chinese to Sanskrit
 * 2) Active user who knows Hawaiian language
 * 3) Vowels in Arabic, English, and German
 * 4) hoành tráng
 * 5) Why do news reports use present tense?
 * 6) Is there a technical term for the printer's problem...
 * 7) Difference between le pavot and le coquelicot
 * 8) Tornados or Tornadoes?

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 22


 * 1) Spanish translation help needed
 * 2) "Straighter" as a noun
 * 3) "Renamed as"

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 23


 * 1) Quarantania
 * 2) Japanese recognition of simplified Chinese characters
 * 3) "Computer codes"
 * 4) Latin American Spanish and noun plurals
 * 5) flute mask
 * 6) Health care/Healthcare
 * 7) MEDIUM OF VANASTHALI
 * 8) Jason Zebehazy

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 24


 * 1) extrémité/French skeletal anatomy
 * 2) The right way to represent an object or a thing
 * 3) O'bama instead of Obama
 * 4) Russian language question
 * 5) Changing meaning of happiness

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 25


 * 1) Names for "second" and "minute" (units of time)
 * 2) Everyday usage of Standard German in Germany
 * 3) German: -ess like in 'Delikatess'
 * 4) Correct Latin Quote

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 26


 * 1) Intelligibility
 * 2) Sounds

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 27


 * 1) Toilet Words in Mandarin
 * 2) Pronunciation of Fukushima
 * 3) Lao help: Seattle Public Schools
 * 4) "Normally"
 * 5) "That" as relative pronoun
 * 6) "Gadhafi"-"Gadaffi"-"Ka-daffy"

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 28


 * 1) Cambodian/Khmer help
 * 2) Undersell the big shots

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 29


 * 1) Books on English grammar
 * 2) Pronunciation of Muralitharan
 * 3) More than idiom
 * 4) Agent vs. Officer and Office vs. Bureau vs. agency
 * 5) Metaphorical? Hyperbole? Figurative?

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 30


 * 1) liquidation
 * 2) "Multiple association of converting Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese"
 * 3) How do you pronounce the surname Florescu?
 * 4) What exactly the following sentence means?
 * 5) Farsi help needed at the Science desk
 * 6) using of "the"
 * 7) Please throw me the ball, in Spanish and Japanese.
 * 8) Vice Minister?
 * 9) How do I word brother and sister in law

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 31


 * 1) Taps
 * 2) Sentence
 * 3) ᴥ Latin Letter Ain