Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2018

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 1


 * 1) How can the ambiguity of 'hook up' be solved?
 * 2) Foot

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 2


 * 1) Author John Flanagan influenced by Tolkien?
 * 2) Is there a relation between the word "Christians" and the word "cross"?
 * 3) Meaning of "fit you for slippers"

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 3


 * 1) Amending the language
 * 2) The twain hath met
 * 3) Atria longe pulcherrima...

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 4


 * 1) Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
 * 2) Urgent translation request to Japanese

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 5


 * 1) General (universal) surprise
 * 2) Indefinite article for ʻokina
 * 3) Accents
 * 4) What British accent is the closest to Australian accent?

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 6


 * 1) "undermined with"?
 * 2) Replacing W with T in the question words...
 * 3) Why do some scientific publications require submissions to be in the country’s dialect?
 * 4) How do I access this study?

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 8


 * 1) Latin alphabet

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 9


 * 1) "where shall we lead our Association " - please help me revise this direct translation for it to become more grammatically correct yet retain the original idea?

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 10


 * 1) Korean expression/word: "gross-mid-ah" (my attempt at transliterating what it sounds like to me phonetically)
 * 2) Superstars, superheroes, supermodels, ...

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 11


 * 1) Tiananmen Square Protests (1989)
 * 2) Joke explanation

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 12


 * 1) Help with a Russian name.
 * 2) Native speaker variation
 * 3) Some questions on Breton
 * 4) Unmerging wine-whine sporadically
 * 5) Online Basque dataset
 * 6) Converting Diacritic to Non-Diacritic

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 13


 * 1) T (not Th) adjective
 * 2) Dental fricative spellings

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 14


 * 1) Biblical Hebrew questions: geminates
 * 2) Biblical Hebrew question: roots with identical first and second radical (פ = ע)?

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 15


 * 1) Goat sound
 * 2) Why doesn't the Chinese Wikipedia have a word for Songkran?

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 16


 * 1) A few surnames
 * 2) "doesn't assume", in one word (or two words, of which the second one is a preposition).
 * 3) Deductible, Deducible, Deductable, Inferable   Does this thesaurus site get it wrong ?
 * 4) Do all languages have more consonants than vowels?
 * 5) Russian hand sign?

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 18


 * 1) Speaking Japanese?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 19


 * 1) Why does the simple adjective is called "positive"?
 * 2) ISO-8859-1
 * 3) Conditional mood#German
 * 4) Teachers who recommend parents to only speak the dominant language

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 20


 * 1) Russian "Да иду" (vs. "Да я иду"), as opposed to French "Oui je vais" (vs. "Oui vais"), and to English "Yes I am" (vs. "Yes am").
 * 2) Naming patterns among half-Han families

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 21


 * 1) Latin translation check
 * 2) Even under, under even

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 22


 * 1) Above sentence level grammar rules

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 23


 * 1) Ambiguity joke meaning
 * 2) Millner and Miller
 * 3) Dangling modifiers

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 24


 * 1) German word that sounds like 'gull-lighter'
 * 2) wiki, source, translate

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 25


 * 1) Translation request: Chinese.
 * 2) Is Singlish and Manglish mutually intelligible?

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 26


 * 1) Persian

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 28


 * 1) Use of phrase "General elections"
 * 2) Basque - verbs receiving a case suffix?

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 29


 * 1) 'Types of semiconductor diode' vs. 'Types of semiconductor diodes'

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 30


 * 1) Translation request