Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2014

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 1


 * 1) Chinese/English help: File:TNA332toShanghai.ogg
 * 2) Do elders & children usually have different phonologies?
 * 3) Linguistic Stereotypes
 * 4) French help: finding French language articles on the International School of Paris

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 2


 * 1) St. George's, Grenada apostrophe
 * 2) Russian help
 * 3) Books about Wikipedia or encyclopedias in languages other than English or French

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 3


 * 1) Word choice
 * 2) Bold text
 * 3) Alphabetical order
 * 4) Why is it bad to ask God to damn things?
 * 5) Why are contractions pronounced from two syllables to one syllable?
 * 6) British colonial insertion of "r"s where they don't belong.
 * 7) Vietnamese phrase

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 1


 * 1) Chinese/English help: File:TNA332toShanghai.ogg
 * 2) Do elders & children usually have different phonologies?
 * 3) Linguistic Stereotypes
 * 4) French help: finding French language articles on the International School of Paris

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 2


 * 1) St. George's, Grenada apostrophe
 * 2) Russian help
 * 3) Books about Wikipedia or encyclopedias in languages other than English or French

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 3


 * 1) Word choice
 * 2) Bold text
 * 3) Alphabetical order
 * 4) Why is it bad to ask God to damn things?
 * 5) Why are contractions pronounced from two syllables to one syllable?
 * 6) British colonial insertion of "r"s where they don't belong.
 * 7) Vietnamese phrase

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 4


 * 1) Cuneiform in Wikipedia

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 5


 * 1) Need help with summary of Nepali references / establishment of notability
 * 2) Question about Japanese sources: How much do they talk about the Liceo Mexicano Japones? Are they independent of the school?
 * 3) Transcription and translation of Korean markings
 * 4) Etymology of Yiddish איידים (pron. aye-dim) - "son-in-law"

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 6


 * 1) What is fucken going on?
 * 2) future of media & media's future
 * 3) Suprematism
 * 4) UN and varieties of English
 * 5) Polecat

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 7


 * 1) website that compares the (Iranian and Slavic) languages
 * 2) Arabic dialects comparison website with audio sample
 * 3) does anyone really say pot-ah-to
 * 4) Writing correct English. Just some minor help.

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 8


 * 1) Japanese help: Kanji for Kouhei Asoh, pilot of Japan Airlines Flight 2
 * 2) Etymology of Bandurki, Rusyn for Potato
 * 3) feel a twinge in her nose
 * 4) Arabic help: Finding Arabic names of Dearborn city institutions and Dearborn Public Schools campuses
 * 5) Chinese characters and radicals

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 9


 * 1) bake/roast potatoes
 * 2) in irregular rhythm
 * 3) Japanese electronic device legends
 * 4) Chinese help with aviation technical terms
 * 5) 'Had become' -vs- 'became'
 * 6) cannot but/have to

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 10


 * 1) College Entrance Examination or College Entrance Examinations
 * 2) Lyudmyla Yosypenko - UK/RU news
 * 3) What to call characters in The Adventures of Little Carp
 * 4) bring down on

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 11


 * 1) Speech question
 * 2) Singular or plural?
 * 3) Noun–adjective order
 * 4) Have you been to/gone to & Fuiste (ir) /Fuiste (ser) coincidence, or language universal?

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 12


 * 1) a fit of unbearable coughing?
 * 2) Pergament paper
 * 3) Spanish help: Political controversy involving a Mexican school
 * 4) infinitive verbs
 * 5) For bilingual speakers

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 13


 * 1) Oh Dae-su (Hangul: 오대수)
 * 2) flourishing spring
 * 3) Japanese character identification
 * 4) Patently absurd

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 14


 * 1) The top of the hill was swept off
 * 2) German Translation Needed
 * 3) Plurals of Abbreviated Words
 * 4) Term for a noun that is both singular and plural

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 15


 * 1) A cuttle of days
 * 2) Japanese character recognition
 * 3) "straight" or "straightly"?

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 16


 * 1) The father turned the boy's shoulder around and talked to him.
 * 2) Italian and Spanish Similarities
 * 3) Japanese character identification - pre-war?
 * 4) The writer wrote the novel in/on/at Elm Street.

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 17


 * 1) Don't quote me on this, but I need help.
 * 2) Is a ghoul a good metaphor?
 * 3) American and British English, native and nonnative speakers
 * 4) Impel incorrectly listed as "Not a word" in wikipedia

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 18


 * 1) Japanese help: Japanese School of Sao Paulo
 * 2) leaving a large wet patch on it
 * 3) secondary clinical conditions
 * 4) How do you pronounce "Bodhisattva" in the American English dialect as well as the original pronunciation?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 19


 * 1) swing the pen?
 * 2) Need a Greek proverb/quote
 * 3) Abbreviation in frame of 17th-century painting
 * 4) "unknown a priori"
 * 5) Italian

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 20


 * 1) the date before the place at the end of a novel?
 * 2) fodder vegetables?
 * 3) (ECx2!!!) Characters....
 * 4) 'Tas' - a three letter word
 * 5) rendering OED pronunciation for Latin words in IPA
 * 6) What are the differences between inflammation & infection
 * 7) Japanese character identification
 * 8) His concern for his daughter directed him toward home.
 * 9) Starting to begin
 * 10) A matter of degree?
 * 11) Japanese help: image descriptions and "what does the Japanese say?"
 * 12) Chinese translation needed
 * 13) The phrase "based out of"
 * 14) Guillemets 《 》

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 21


 * 1) stir oneself
 * 2) Figuratively speaking
 * 3) Japanese for "sub-chassis"
 * 4) Arabic question: File:Graffiti_in_tunis.JPG
 * 5) "I couldn't disagree more"
 * 6) lovey-dovey to describe a man?

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 22


 * 1) Latin alphabet to Cyrillic script
 * 2) Whether it is/be
 * 3) 'Mu-um!', 'Da-ad!' - making two syllables out of one
 * 4) Crabtree sticks
 * 5) You can manage anyway?
 * 6) Japanese character identification
 * 7) Chinese Translation Urgently Needed!!
 * 8) what is the meaning of diabetes melitus?
 * 9) English words with "y" sound

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 23


 * 1) remember...as & songs played on the recorder
 * 2) Japanese grammar difficult
 * 3) "Geekspeak" as dialect
 * 4) The couple's quarrels are the rule rather than the exception.
 * 5) Japanese character identification

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 24


 * 1) The old man walked with his face upturned/ with his face upward/with his chin up in the air.
 * 2) "book" in the sense of "move quickly" or "leave before it's too late"
 * 3) "He asked him to ask his teacher."
 * 4) Time to complete accident damages
 * 5) I can no longer be sure what thoughts it is that I had

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 25


 * 1) Roger Brown
 * 2) Translation from French to English
 * 3) in as varied ways as...
 * 4) Russian eyes needed please
 * 5) declension of names
 * 6) older candidates

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 26


 * 1) Fescal: German readers needed to help establish notability
 * 2) Accent in Yiddish
 * 3) Term
 * 4) work at the textbook
 * 5) Is the English word "God" a name or a title?
 * 6) Whether the meaning of the sentence is clear
 * 7) relative of Bed No.2

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 27


 * 1) how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom
 * 2) Origin of the "not safe for work" warning
 * 3) about verb tense
 * 4) vocational schools
 * 5) What a help I'm keeping by apples!

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 30


 * 1) Chinese question:
 * 2) attribution of languages
 * 3) Rifle platoon leader v. infantry officer (platoon level)

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 31


 * 1) Hardness as a personal trait
 * 2) High English?
 * 3) Anfechtung