Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2011

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 1


 * 1) Egal
 * 2) Chinese question
 * 3) English to Norwegian please
 * 4) "to my wedded wife/husband"

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 2


 * 1) Arabic for Al-Thager Model School
 * 2) USAGE OF THE WORD CONSTITUENT
 * 3) Ennui
 * 4) Looking for a word

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 3


 * 1) King consort
 * 2) Norwegian languages
 * 3) looking forward to "join" vs "joining"
 * 4) Gascon Occitan question
 * 5) Verboten

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 4


 * 1) How best to learn Mandarin
 * 2) Hebrew

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 5


 * 1) etimology of expression
 * 2) A belated thank-you to you all
 * 3) Grammatical complexity in language

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 6


 * 1) Numbers
 * 2) Saddam Hussein, Goldilocks and Mother
 * 3) What is the opposite of Ambivalence ?
 * 4) Atlantic or atlantic
 * 5) German:Hauptveranst
 * 6) Castilian Spanish

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 7


 * 1) Request for comment: ITS
 * 2) Dutch translation please

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 8


 * 1) Classical Chinese
 * 2) "He has a duck" in Russian
 * 3) Japanese Onomatopaeic Expressions
 * 4) Dogs Bollocks
 * 5) bit o' Spanish
 * 6) Bloody 'ell
 * 7) Identifying mystery language

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 9


 * 1) English/German wordplay
 * 2) IPA Transcription to language

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 10


 * 1) Could some translate this Sentence for me?
 * 2) In what case should I put the word accompanying "У"?
 * 3) Special use of "you"
 * 4) wut did abraham lincoln sound like when he talked
 * 5) Every Third Thought

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 11


 * 1) Español
 * 2) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 11#Is_the_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fsco.wikipedia.org.2Fwiki.2FMain_Page_Scots_Language_Wikipedia.5D_tounge_in_cheek.3F|Is the Scots Language Wikipedia tounge in cheek?]]
 * 3) English Grammer
 * 4) Morass rose as high as it die
 * 5) plait/plate?
 * 6) Help trying to find Korean version of accident report
 * 7) Slavic words consisting only of consonants
 * 8) Can phobia mean hatred?

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 12


 * 1) Toe heal?
 * 2) Republics and democracies in Modern Greek
 * 3) Question about /ɛ/
 * 4) "Tuttavia"?
 * 5) French adjectives

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 13


 * 1) Intrusive word
 * 2) Reading Method
 * 3) Word "few"
 * 4) 太平洋 (Japanese)
 * 5) Figures of speech
 * 6) "16 e.o."

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 14


 * 1) Official English Name for Japanese Organisation
 * 2) Whence vs. from whence
 * 3) What is the honorific treatment for a friar?
 * 4) Interpretation of words spelled the same
 * 5) summarizing English language, history, and culture with a brief line or two of verse?
 * 6) Kardomah
 * 7) Is there a free-licensed list of the 65,536 most common English words?

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 15


 * 1) approximately how many ancient Greek writers would we have any material at all from?
 * 2) Prooemium
 * 3) German estzett versus Greek beta?
 * 4) Know thyself
 * 5) very pregnant

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 16


 * 1) Translation for film title
 * 2) Brazilian Portuguese help
 * 3) Self services ice cream machine
 * 4) [ʎ]

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 17


 * 1) Referenced in
 * 2) Hellenic State
 * 3) Reflection

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 18


 * 1) The Spanish word for hair
 * 2) Why do we write "table" and not "tabel"?

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 19


 * 1) Agent Smithspeak
 * 2) "marked with"

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 20


 * 1) Name in Arabic
 * 2) Use of apostrophe with verbal noun
 * 3) Geeks only, maybe: the AT-sign in Latin@
 * 4) German-to-English translation

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 21


 * 1) Flattery that's hard to understand
 * 2) Sentence in the Article Problem of evil
 * 3) Synthetic language?
 * 4) Are north and south strongly connected with up and down everywhere?

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 22


 * 1) East Side, West Side
 * 2) Arabic transliteration authority
 * 3) Comma

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 23


 * 1) Why is Wikipedia not in italics?
 * 2) Meaning of "smell like soup"
 * 3) "Drunk as a fiddler's bitch"
 * 4) "Going stag"
 * 5) French and Italian legislation titles
 * 6) American vs. British English
 * 7) Due by - due when?
 * 8) Yang (surname) media source
 * 9) Bow-wow in Canada and Australia
 * 10) Nonsense on Paper
 * 11) Browsing
 * 12) Académie française

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 24


 * 1) Writing systems and language type?
 * 2) Double negative

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 25


 * 1) How old is the English langauge?
 * 2) 2 Question about the English Language
 * 3) English dialects or accents in Northern Canada

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 26


 * 1) Chinese wall
 * 2) Word for "proper or well-spoken" speech.
 * 3) bumble bee
 * 4) "Tai"/"Vai"

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 27


 * 1) a "safe" conviction
 * 2) Need help with Arabic reference
 * 3) Identifying mystery language, Part 2 (Ewe?)
 * 4) Suspicious usages
 * 5) Chinese language help
 * 6) Objective test versus subjective test

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 28


 * 1) Dive Live?
 * 2) Goethe quote

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 29


 * 1) Can't recognise this Chinese character
 * 2) French tennis terminology

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 30


 * 1) Possessive apostrophe at the end of sentence
 * 2) Translation: Mandarin to English
 * 3) Online reference desks
 * 4) What does this Chinese say?
 * 5) It was him playing

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 31


 * 1) German-to-English translation: the same scholar seems to have provided two diffrent translations
 * 2) Tibetan script