Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2013

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 1


 * 1) Adjective and Noun word lists.
 * 2) Google Translate
 * 3) ap in welsh names
 * 4) Natural and Unnatural
 * 5) Semicolon and coordinating conjunction combined?

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 2


 * 1) Checking Spanish translation of transcript of audio

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 3


 * 1) What kind of fish is an o?
 * 2) Way of applying drug?
 * 3) What tense "would" this be

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 4


 * 1) It's a good deal more nothing than neck
 * 2) Pronouns & Genders
 * 3) Trochee or not?
 * 4) Another phrase meaning "oriental".

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 5


 * 1) A question about readability

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 6


 * 1) Using the correct words

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 7


 * 1) Century
 * 2) "-ba" in Swedish

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 8


 * 1) The/that moment when ...
 * 2) Sanskrit anyone?
 * 3) Conditional Simple
 * 4) "gotten" in British English
 * 5) Shall I not?

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 9


 * 1) Commons closed captioning template
 * 2) "a few/a little" origin
 * 3) Traditional Chinese

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 10


 * 1) Are Russian белый (white) and Latin bellus (beautiful) cognates?
 * 2) ß capitalization
 * 3) Half-palatalization?
 * 4) Arab references
 * 5) Language learning and explicit vocabulary instruction

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 11


 * 1) Arabic help: File:Medersa Odienne.JPG
 * 2) Pronouns with short memories
 * 3) Spielberg
 * 4) How to find the "subject "in these sentences
 * 5) Do children of lesbian couples receive patronymic names?
 * 6) "His or her" → "their" ?
 * 7) Saswitha
 * 8) Grammar

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 12


 * 1) Chinese help: Musings of the Ape Immortal
 * 2) French, Portuguese, and German help
 * 3) Last newsreel of Die Deutsche Wochenschau - translate?
 * 4) German Language
 * 5) North (America)

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 13


 * 1) Aristotle translation
 * 2) knock-knock-knocking
 * 3) Birendra Nath Dutta in Assamese
 * 4) Eat like a bird
 * 5) Half swim
 * 6) language learning and hours of study
 * 7) Adjectives
 * 8) Bwanos Aires
 * 9) What does this Chinese scroll say?

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 14


 * 1) Working language(s) of the Vatican?
 * 2) Origin of the surname Carkeet
 * 3) Opposite of economic materialism
 * 4) Spanish pronunciation of Bergoglio

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 15


 * 1) Kanji variants
 * 2) Pronunciation of Hagia Sophia
 * 3) Does it make sense to ask why?
 * 4) Would this be acceptable in scientific writing?
 * 5) "En" in French

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 16


 * 1) Interesting ambiguity in "so happy that"
 * 2) Accent
 * 3) Arabic help
 * 4) Chilton pronunciation
 * 5) Nonsensical Arabic sentence

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 17


 * 1) Antonym for "drown"
 * 2) Pronunciation of unusual or foreign words
 * 3) MEANING OF WORDS

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 18


 * 1) Deciphering cursive handwriting: File:Steamship Bienville on-board restaurant menu (April 7, 1861).jpg
 * 2) Tall and lanky
 * 3) Nguyen
 * 4) "Passed master"
 * 5) "Sisu" meaning "child"

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 19


 * 1) 要領よく / 要領のよさ (Japanese)
 * 2) The language most heavily influenced by Scandinavian.
 * 3) Olymp as short form of olympus
 * 4) Hebrew: functions of the dagesh
 * 5) Pronunciation of Alois Hitler?

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 20


 * 1) hit a person in the jaw and make his front teeth rattle
 * 2) French term for "air raid shelter" in World War II?
 * 3) Reverse TEFL
 * 4) Etymolgy of Stow

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 21


 * 1) Opposite of "on behalf of"?
 * 2) "Robin Redbreast"
 * 3) Greek constitution translation
 * 4) Dutch government corporations

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 22


 * 1) Would this be considered plagiarism?
 * 2) Male counterpart of "grande dame"
 * 3) meanings related to "recruitment"
 * 4) "The Crak'd Jordan"
 * 5) "You and I" plus one or more others?
 * 6) Standard statement
 * 7) Lack of official federal language in the US

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 23


 * 1) Korean to English translation
 * 2) Dogfights / Catfights regarding fighters and UAVs
 * 3) Etymology of Eau
 * 4) French for "they're being extorted"
 * 5) Finnish pronunciation
 * 6) How do you spell  (which means "timing" or something like that)?

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 24


 * 1) how to rewrite the sentences using the principles of effective writing?
 * 2) What is this chinese foodstuff?
 * 3) Technical term for helmet crest

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 25


 * 1) Humanities -> Societies ?
 * 2) Feminae ad ludos semper veniunt
 * 3) Decipher Japanese writing

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 26


 * 1) Looking for a word
 * 2) me or I

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 27


 * 1) Cyrillic letter?

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 28


 * 1) Legal Latin term
 * 2) I am this and am that
 * 3) Coniuncturalist
 * 4) Münchener or Münchner?

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 29


 * 1) Out of print books
 * 2) Soledad Pastorutti

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 30


 * 1) doubt

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 31


 * 1) Name of Japanese house style
 * 2) πολύκερων
 * 3) List of uncommon words?