Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2012

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 1


 * 1) Arabic help
 * 2) Understanding written Japanese
 * 3) Yiddish seal
 * 4) Macquarie slang
 * 5) Japanese translation needed

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 2


 * 1) Does final-obstruent devoicing occur in Albanian?
 * 2) Cantonese help
 * 3) Medieval "almest"
 * 4) Fly or flye?

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 3


 * 1) can something be unlistenable?
 * 2) "E" and "I" confusion
 * 3) Kukley, Milhey and Nizilon

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 4


 * 1) adding Arabic language
 * 2) Pronunciation: Do words like "13", "14", etc. have the emphasis on the first syllable, or on the last one?
 * 3) Pronunciation: Is the last t in "restaurant" pronounced?
 * 4) Mangled Hungarian braille inscription in logo
 * 5) Etymology of "Catathelasma"
 * 6) More about sentences that are pronounced similarly and mean the same thing in unrelated languages

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 5


 * 1) Rusted automobile
 * 2) Urdu help
 * 3) diesel fuel  combustion
 * 4) Sortal classifiers and measure words
 * 5) Restaurant: does it rhyme with ant, or with hunt, or with want, or with haunt, or with excellent/remnant?

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 6


 * 1) Cheese
 * 2) what happen if the food chain get broken
 * 3) Danish language study
 * 4) Annemasse
 * 5) spelling endings
 * 6) received pronunciation: dropping the H
 * 7) rearrange these words to form a meaningful sentence

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 7


 * 1) relative pronouns
 * 2) Japanese Farting Competition 1812
 * 3) original way to separate the men from the boys
 * 4) Middle English: "seiden"
 * 5) Bullying
 * 6) Translation

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 8


 * 1) Apple vs. potato in French
 * 2) "had have"
 * 3) "Now then"
 * 4) Alphabetical order
 * 5) Capentry - "fir", "furr" or "fur"
 * 6) "Kn" in English

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 9


 * 1) Singular or plural verb?
 * 2) Carrot
 * 3) Wrong Stress
 * 4) "Life's too short" in Latin

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 10


 * 1) "... an Ivy or a safety"
 * 2) French word order

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 11


 * 1) english sentece correction
 * 2) To butter something with margarine
 * 3) Initial Epenthetic /e/
 * 4) Spanish-English translation

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 12


 * 1) Symbols for non-literate people

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 13


 * 1) Pahawh Hmong script help
 * 2) Currently famous people that use pseudonyms that mononyms and who are not musicians?
 * 3) english

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 14


 * 1) Chinese question
 * 2) Olde Frenche
 * 3) Eppering

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 15


 * 1) prose so bad
 * 2) Denominations for "police"

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 16


 * 1) is this Romanian?
 * 2) Need help in Georgian
 * 3) 'When it comes to wages day'
 * 4) How to teach Americans the RP accent of "or"?
 * 5) Same spelling but different meanings
 * 6) Common practice for translation samples
 * 7) Silent words/clitics in Irish?

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 18


 * 1) Do two wrongs sometimes make a right?
 * 2) Oujda
 * 3) And or but?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 19


 * 1) use of the word DANDER to refer to animal/bird detritus

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 20


 * 1) Complicatedly inflected languages
 * 2) Foreign Language Proper Names
 * 3) "Brother-in-law", as the most bizzare relation in almost all languages, including English.
 * 4) What are they talking about here?
 * 5) Gigs?

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 21


 * 1) Telekommunikationsgesetz
 * 2) British English question regarding "50p"

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 22


 * 1) Is Filipino Verb-Subject-Object, Subject-Verb-Object, or both?
 * 2) Letter
 * 3) Amadou as a common first name in Mali?
 * 4) Archaic Cyrillization of Greek

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 24


 * 1) Red Snapper Name In Spanish
 * 2) What is the correct Latin?
 * 3) "Requested anonymity for confidential reasons"
 * 4) Belgian place in russian
 * 5) Japanese pronunciations

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 25


 * 1) *****phone = speakers of *****, or where ***** is spoken
 * 2) German fraktur
 * 3) What are these black structures called ?
 * 4) The 1st vowel in the 1st syllable for the words listed in this question

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 26


 * 1) Hawaiian translation
 * 2)  [sic] in Personal Names
 * 3) Inputing Asian characters
 * 4) The name "Nikita"
 * 5) Lists using semicolons

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 27


 * 1) Cotton's higher than an opium fiend
 * 2) Rule on Abstract Nouns derived from polysyllabic Adjectives.

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 28


 * 1) Khilafat & Khilafat-o-Ijazat
 * 2) Businesses entities
 * 3) French help: Control by rebel movements
 * 4) Kanji differentiation

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 29


 * 1) Canadian vs. American accents
 * 2) Pronunciation of  in North American English

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 30


 * 1) Brushed black tails
 * 2) "Sub-Suharan African accent" in English in the United States
 * 3) Greek word interpretation

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 March 31


 * 1) Crossword puzzle stumped
 * 2) Romaji (Japanese)
 * 3) Learning basic handwriting again
 * 4) Grammatical forms sounding weird in Colloquial English, as compared to their ungrammatical parallels.
 * 5) Language change over time
 * 6) Identification of symbol