Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2008

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 1


 * 1) Words for counting days
 * 2) negatively phrased questions in court
 * 3) Multilingual National Anthems?

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 2


 * 1) Writing numbers
 * 2) Can I person get a high school diploma if I take a placement test
 * 3) Crocodile wife
 * 4) Is this grammatically correct?
 * 5) Map translation
 * 6) International gesture for money
 * 7) Map translation 2

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 3


 * 1) Wood
 * 2) Twice
 * 3) "Alter Strom" or "Alte Strom" ("Old River") or both in the English Wikipedia?
 * 4) Seeking Burmese Language Contributors
 * 5) to test reading habits
 * 6) Midwestern Dialect

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 4


 * 1) I don't have an accent! Do I?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 5


 * 1) Wiping floors
 * 2) questionaire for testing the habbit of english reading habits
 * 3) Glasgow patter vs 'normal' English

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 6


 * 1) Are these Japanese sentences grammatically correct?
 * 2) Veränderungsmeldungen
 * 3) Plurals and group names
 * 4) translation of english to transylvania old script.

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 7


 * 1) Miscounting the letter "F"
 * 2) Japanese translation
 * 3) Another is/are
 * 4) vegetables
 * 5) Russian question
 * 6) Khaned/Khanned OR Khaganed/Khaganned?

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 8


 * 1) Plural for staff
 * 2) English-bilingual people online
 * 3) Egotism
 * 4) Human-read articles
 * 5) Another Russian question
 * 6) Toon-to-Japanese

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 9


 * 1) Wikipoetry
 * 2) Classifications of persons
 * 3) Names for the Grand Canyon.
 * 4) differences
 * 5) Poem: To bed, to bed said Leatherhead .. (I don't know any more)
 * 6) Finding a girl

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 10


 * 1) Math vs. Maths
 * 2) Urdu
 * 3) Table(au)
 * 4) Dialogue question
 * 5) Singular of Rice Krispies
 * 6) Un stockage dans
 * 7) Spanish verb "castrar" with "birthday" as the object
 * 8) The meaning of this Poem
 * 9) wikiboxes: prescriptivism versus descriptivism
 * 10) Where should I put the adverb?
 * 11) Both a strength and a weakness

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 11


 * 1) Deafblindness
 * 2) Close - But no Cigar.
 * 3) Question on Japanese counters
 * 4) A good comeback
 * 5) What language is this in?
 * 6) lipid
 * 7) Meaning of "either"
 * 8) Variations of "4"-- er, I mean "death" in Japanese

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 12


 * 1) Monte Davidoff
 * 2) Latin language
 * 3) "There do exist some"
 * 4) Feminist language
 * 5) Lio
 * 6) Ringer test
 * 7) Longest One-Sylable Words
 * 8) TV "set"
 * 9) Goats
 * 10) grammar of affliction
 * 11) History of writing
 * 12) How to render a name in IPA

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 13


 * 1) Kate Nash's accent
 * 2) Women in some ways have innately better
 * 3) Dajare in the comic strip
 * 4) All right...I'm fed up.
 * 5) word information

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 14


 * 1) Matthew
 * 2) 'ser' and 'set' in Venetian discourse
 * 3) German phrase on train window
 * 4) What is meant by the use of the word "sick" when used in sporting events?
 * 5) Drains Up Review
 * 6) Pardon my  French  English
 * 7) Translation from Hungarian

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 15


 * 1) Articles
 * 2) Missing articles
 * 3) Small words
 * 4) Translate
 * 5) Text of historical plaque, :de:en:
 * 6) German?

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 16


 * 1) Correct Translation?
 * 2) What part of the USA is this accent from
 * 3) what's the meaning of the words as follows
 * 4) Metastasised
 * 5) Untitled
 * 6) The reverse of "orphan"

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 17


 * 1) Mexican Webpage
 * 2) in mediis rebus
 * 3) "To hoover" in Russian

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 18


 * 1) ...increase the sensitivity of MSP to around one alelle in 50 000
 * 2) Memoirs
 * 3) a word that describes a pictogram

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 19


 * 1) slang origin
 * 2) The word "professional" as accolade in products
 * 3) Somali lectures
 * 4) How do you pronounce this?
 * 5) Using an apostrophe to indicate possesion
 * 6) red fruits
 * 7) English spelling of "Masters thesis"
 * 8) "Say this!", or "Say that!"

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 20


 * 1) How to say it?
 * 2) Is "manslaughter" politically correct?
 * 3) The gir is cute as a freaking button
 * 4) Bamburgh
 * 5) BDSM support group?
 * 6) Five cats and 32 dogs

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 21


 * 1) Learning to write properly: how long does it take?
 * 2) Weird Spanish Grammar
 * 3) Musical Instrument in Japanese
 * 4) Jaber Elbaneh, the al-Qaeda operative ...
 * 5) Pronunciation
 * 6) Ancient One-Liner
 * 7) country/ ies of origin
 * 8) Multiple Apostrophes

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 22


 * 1) Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 22
 * 2) Feminine counties
 * 3) Footnote formatting
 * 4) Swearing
 * 5) British Accent and indian pronunciation
 * 6) Lead me to the truth
 * 7) Voicing in English phonetics
 * 8) Society for the Restoration of Lost Positives
 * 9) Japanese translation
 * 10) english language
 * 11) Romanisation of Chinese names
 * 12) Japanese! (From a song)

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 23


 * 1) Irish orthography
 * 2) Fucking bitch vs. fucked bitch
 * 3) Commented editions of English literature

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 24


 * 1) Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 24
 * 2) Plastic artist
 * 3) Reading quotations

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 25


 * 1) Double acronyms
 * 2) Somali and Arabic
 * 3) How can I learn to write better?
 * 4) Signs on artwork
 * 5) Untitled
 * 6) Placebo effect
 * 7) IPA for Oier Olazábal
 * 8) grammar

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 26


 * 1) Hindi and Bengali: mutually understandable
 * 2) Pronounciation on the pinyin "zh"

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 27


 * 1) Where to put "from"?
 * 2) [the?] Westermarkt, Amsterdam
 * 3) Comanche
 * 4) Looking for a specific term
 * 5) Pronunciation of Greek gods/goddesses

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 28


 * 1) Translation from German to English
 * 2) El resto de/The rest of/La reste de
 * 3) burrstone
 * 4) Doe? What does 'does mean here? If it is a misspell of what word?
 * 5) Subject headline
 * 6) Needing substitute for trite cliché
 * 7) Jianhe River

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 29


 * 1) foreigner or alien
 * 2) Dutch Translation
 * 3) Origin of Mickey
 * 4) internet language: smilies
 * 5) Definite article usage
 * 6) Eddie Izzard
 * 7) Shipoopi

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 30


 * 1) Greeting in an email
 * 2) Chinese characters
 * 3) Name of this language bastardization method?
 * 4) quod pro quo

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 31


 * 1) squameus, omnisciens ac benevolus
 * 2) Quelle collection
 * 3) English, "bother", meanings
 * 4) Noun phrases without a determiner