Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2017

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 1


 * 1) Taskrabbit and Upwork
 * 2) sign off approvals

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 2


 * 1) Which novel has a novelist protagonist who can't proceed beyond the first sentence of his novel?
 * 2) Voiced and voiceless consonants in Russian

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 3


 * 1) work on your presentation
 * 2) Gender in early Indo-European
 * 3) [Closed] Would Brits, when with their family or friends say something like "Can you pass me the salt?"
 * 4) Proto Indo European excerpt

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 5


 * 1) bring new ideas to the table
 * 2) Tribal Shamanism vs Organized Religion?
 * 3) Lysander and Lysandros

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 6


 * 1) What is "乾亨行"
 * 2) get smart to sth.
 * 3) not at a soccer game instead of a client meeting
 * 4) What language can be typed by more humans than any other?
 * 5) Present participle of verbs ending in -ie

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 7


 * 1) BBC oddity

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 8


 * 1) leading to... or leading to the...
 * 2) Esperanto for "cannabis activist"?
 * 3) "true gun"

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 9


 * 1) Japanese Pronunciation--1940s
 * 2) Arabic mosque sign

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 10


 * 1) Japanese to English

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 11


 * 1) Cuneiform
 * 2) What's the linguistic equivalent of a foreign accent in a written text?
 * 3) Old names

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 12


 * 1) Vegetable
 * 2) Meaning of "scientist"
 * 3) "You're gonna need two hands" sentence construction

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 13


 * 1) Which one is true?
 * 2) What are these adjective pairs called?
 * 3) Concave base of a glass bottle

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 14


 * 1) Marked Features?
 * 2) "At the end of the day"

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 15


 * 1) "Not good at mathematics"

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 16


 * 1) Is there a term for this?
 * 2) "couple" as singular noun or plural?
 * 3) Which languages are we?
 * 4) British/American English
 * 5) Sandy bulls

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 17


 * 1) Sequence of tenses for abstract statements
 * 2) Take/bring home
 * 3) Old map translation (1700s Latin/French/Spanish/Italian)
 * 4) Early PIE Ergativity?

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 18


 * 1) Origin of this saying?
 * 2) German to English

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 21


 * 1) Katakana characters
 * 2) One subject two verbs
 * 3) Turkish

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 22


 * 1) Meaning of "traves"

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 23


 * 1) Hempl's theory on G

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 24


 * 1) grammar
 * 2) Dictionary, name of items under a headword
 * 3) Naturally Sound?

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 25


 * 1) Surprise packet

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 26


 * 1) "she's a Portsmouth"
 * 2) how do you count number of words that you know?
 * 3) I wish to know what texts other than the Tanakh and Talmud are sacred.

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 27


 * 1) grammatical term
 * 2) Colloquial Arabic imperatives

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 28


 * 1) Word sought

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 29


 * 1) Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 30


 * 1) Tower of Babel
 * 2) Use of "portmanteau" for Japanese concatenated words
 * 3) capitalization of plc

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 31


 * 1) Imitation of Russian?
 * 2) Obama is the 44th President?
 * 3) Беринг (фон Беринг), Владимир Михайлович
 * 4) In or at a roadstead?