Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2010

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 1


 * 1) Hospitalised
 * 2) Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3) Most "comlpex" ("complicated") Chinese character. Any suggestions?
 * 4) Nihongo translation please...
 * 5) Another thing about hospitals...
 * 6) atweene
 * 7) Breaching

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 2


 * 1) Telephone (song) video
 * 2) Difference between Classical Arabic and Egyptian Arabic
 * 3) Junk food
 * 4) Minimum Sound Range for Human Language
 * 5) translation
 * 6) APA Style

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 3


 * 1) Purpose of colon in IPA?
 * 2) Short for 'Jeremy'?
 * 3) Arabic name of the Mossad
 * 4) Is this Dutch?
 * 5) Arabic names of some Israeli subjects
 * 6) Colon

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 4


 * 1) Specially and especially
 * 2) German question
 * 3) people speaking hindi alone
 * 4) Phonetics
 * 5) active voice passive voice?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 5


 * 1) Countries ending with -stan
 * 2) flowery toast
 * 3) http://eupa.ca/
 * 4) Old Latin verses New Latin
 * 5) "Dost thou know a website whence Shakespearian prose cometh forth from the tongue of our times?"
 * 6) Table about Concerns
 * 7) A E I O U

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 6


 * 1) Who's on first? ("Extraterrestrial life(forms)")
 * 2) Triste en corps bière
 * 3) German language in user interfaces
 * 4) French
 * 5) Abu Bakr
 * 6) Is there a word for...

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 7


 * 1) Is "refingerprint" a word?
 * 2) Opposites of 'well-to-do' and 'well off'
 * 3) Correct form
 * 4) Invitation to help me out with my German

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 8


 * 1) Use of "often"
 * 2) "Of" or "Off"?

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 9


 * 1) Translate that phrase
 * 2) What does Не атрымалася надзейна выявіць зыходны мова mean
 * 3) Strange language found on shirt
 * 4) Seen, unseen, heard, unheard

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 10


 * 1) Livid
 * 2) Use of the present Subjunctive in English.
 * 3) Proboscis
 * 4) Learning a new language
 * 5) Arabic
 * 6) Hebrew inscription?
 * 7) Spanish word for bottle

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 11


 * 1) First names with other meanings
 * 2) Origin and history of the term "Indian subcontinent"?
 * 3) Cannot think of the name of a logical fallacy
 * 4) Word related to fanfic
 * 5) Kechemeche
 * 6) 'Knockoff'

= May 12 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 12


 * 1) Language disorders
 * 2) Son House
 * 3) Xenophily
 * 4) Merging of expressions into single words

= May 13 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 13


 * 1) Correct legal terminology
 * 2) 'Education level', 'educational level' or 'level of education
 * 3) Consent versus assent
 * 4) Translation into "small" languages
 * 5) Will the real * please stand up

= May 14 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 14


 * 1) Praise of self-subsisting
 * 2) Use of the word "Allah"
 * 3) Word for "Small Talk"
 * 4) "Wie Hunde bellen" - German Help?
 * 5) What is the right situation to use these
 * 6) translate

= May 15 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 15


 * 1) ne'er cast a clout 'fore May is out
 * 2) Quoting speech of a book/movie character
 * 3) Grammar
 * 4) I needs some words

= May 16 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 16


 * 1) Hebe Camargo
 * 2) Etymology of Romanian "dragostea"

= May 17 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 17


 * 1) L'Internationale in Chinese
 * 2) 'Meaning' of Sushi
 * 3) Speed of writing in different systems
 * 4) I s'll search no more, but ask here instead.
 * 5) Polish word "westchnąć"
 * 6) Chicken Curry/Curry Chicken, Curried Chicken?

= May 18 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 18


 * 1) Asian names

= May 19 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 19


 * 1) Japanese: Why they tell Cohii with H (coffee) when they got F?189.233.31.11 (talk) 00:26, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Estadio corazón (embriogénesis vegetal)
 * 3) french
 * 4) Arabic translation
 * 5) Account with m-w.com
 * 6) Minimal pairs distinguished by stress
 * 7) Learn polish
 * 8) La ciudad más bailadora
 * 9) What is the correct tense in this situation?
 * 10) 'amigos llamantes'

= May 20 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 20


 * 1) stymie
 * 2) Doodah
 * 3) southern's lovers passion
 * 4) Which language of former Yugoslavia is this?
 * 5) Schindler's Liſt
 * 6) Chinese characters, weird translation
 * 7) Deliverables
 * 8) Palais de Tokyo
 * 9) Word for song transition
 * 10) Origin of a Phrase.

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 21


 * 1) IPA generator
 * 2) named after / named for
 * 3) French inhale - Etymology
 * 4) common burial
 * 5) Lal Bihari Mritak - translation of 'mritak'
 * 6) Norwegian surname spelling

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 22


 * 1) Hand
 * 2) born, a grammatical question
 * 3) Daniel F. Galouye – Pronunciation of Surname
 * 4) Modern (American?) pronunciation of "finale"

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 23


 * 1) Two words, same meaning, different connotations?
 * 2) Breadalbane, Scotland
 * 3) Points and scoring
 * 4) British English

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 24


 * 1) lap for laptop
 * 2) Evocation v. Provocation
 * 3) Polyglot toponyms
 * 4) Arts and letters
 * 5) Icelandic relative clauses
 * 6) chinese translation

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 25


 * 1) Sophocracy in Chinese, Pali and Sanskrit
 * 2) First priority
 * 3) Weird seating arrangement
 * 4) Perp smart/street smart
 * 5) English word search
 * 6) Place in Madagascar
 * 7) Holy Trinity in German, Dutch, and Portuguese

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 26


 * 1) dictionary
 * 2) Telestian
 * 3) Where can I get my fiction stories critiqued?
 * 4) "Is is"

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 27


 * 1) Translating names of currency
 * 2) Kopek
 * 3) renegate
 * 4) Pronunciation of "Munasinghe"
 * 5) Watershed moment
 * 6) I look for a song name
 * 7) Japanese verb forms

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 28


 * 1) Chinese characters and readings
 * 2) Commodity Price Risk
 * 3) Sao and Neso
 * 4) Malayalam pronounciation
 * 5) "The Nasty Party"
 * 6) Two-part title of book
 * 7) computador and computadora?

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 29


 * 1) Math word complaints
 * 2) Bengali help
 * 3) "Golden Gull"
 * 4) Chrzciciel
 * 5) Italicizing 'of,' 'the,' etc.
 * 6) "Tomorrow" in Cantonese
 * 7) Words with no relevant grammatical function

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 30


 * 1) Finnish exonym
 * 2) Pronunciation of the Italian name Giorgio
 * 3) British equivalent to M-W.com
 * 4) Japanese "ri" hiragana
 * 5) Translation into Chinese

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 31


 * 1) Russian edition of Bandura's Social Foundations of Thought and Action - seeking Pub Info
 * 2) Where did they come from ?
 * 3) Hire French staff for a fake restaurant
 * 4) Omnis est
 * 5) Whistling and humming
 * 6) Boonie hat
 * 7) Waste grain
 * 8) "Alexander" in Old Persian
 * 9) Japanese
 * 10) "Approve" and "Of"
 * 11) origin of a proverb
 * 12) Word for stooping illness