Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2013

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 1


 * 1) Arabic, Chinese, and Greek help: What are the characters in these documents?
 * 2) "to Temp" food
 * 3) Relationship between Pashto and Persian
 * 4) Beating
 * 5) Scrutator

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 2


 * 1) -ton ending
 * 2) Basic grammar for non-native learner
 * 3) Renaming of categories relating to the Hwaseong Fortress at the Wikimedia Commons

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 3


 * 1) what is difference between "would you?" and "will you?"
 * 2) Different Arabs with different varieties tell apart
 * 3) German translation
 * 4) What is the name of this news article in Arabic?
 * 5) 2 shots at 2 targets
 * 6) Anyone read Azerbaijani?
 * 7) Why is Arabic not used in aircraft crash accident reports?

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 4


 * 1) Clusivity in the second person
 * 2) Free, extensively tagged corpora of contemporary English?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 5


 * 1) Flu
 * 2) "introduction to hebrew" "in the roman alphabet"

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 6


 * 1) Pronunciation of the indefinite article 'a'
 * 2) In English, What is the word with the most synonyms?
 * 3) Spanish translation jigger
 * 4) Chinese transliteration
 * 5) Nick needs Polishing
 * 6) Cream of Leek Soup

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 7


 * 1) translation to Venetian please
 * 2) Does anybodies really talks this ways?
 * 3) Elision in Latin
 * 4) Looking for a word that has this meaning...
 * 5) Editors/Censors

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 8


 * 1) Translation from German to English
 * 2) Latin case order anomaly

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 9


 * 1) definition of eCPD
 * 2) Checking grammar
 * 3) Chinese penchant for numbering things

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 10


 * 1) "... not creates it"
 * 2) Rice cake ingredients in Chinese need translation.
 * 3) Learning several languages at the same time
 * 4) Kanji variants

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 11


 * 1) Velar lateral approximant pronunciation

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 12


 * 1) Correct interpretation

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 13


 * 1) the meaning of "rameish"
 * 2) Best German answer
 * 3) Hebrew (?) text
 * 4) Dalmatian resources?
 * 5) Chinese help: True Jesus Church

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 14


 * 1) Phrases from the NYtimes book review "A Feast for the Senses"
 * 2) count vs matter
 * 3) European Esperanto Union

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 15


 * 1) Addendum vocabulary: Annex, Appendix, and Schedule
 * 2) Concise
 * 3) Slavic place names
 * 4) Polish pronunciation for an English-speaker

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 16


 * 1) Black lingerie word
 * 2) What's this girls says?
 * 3) "Mis padres"
 * 4) Väiski in English & Swedish

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 18


 * 1) Is an allegedly terrible historical figure known mainly from later writing a "villain"?
 * 2) What does Maryann chant?

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 19


 * 1) critter words with a certain stress pattern
 * 2) JIM CROW   What is the origin of this term, meaning discriminatory laws against African Americans

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 20


 * 1) Fuck
 * 2) Chinese names in book pages - What are the characters?
 * 3) Homologate and prolepsis

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 21


 * 1) Wash the car? Not my remit.
 * 2) More kanji variants
 * 3) neuter sanskrit gender in asana names
 * 4) Odd message received by me
 * 5) Does the verb “to deface” implies a bad faith?
 * 6) What is the Chinese on the sign?
 * 7) Portuguese names
 * 8) Plot device terminology
 * 9) "believe" or "believe in"?
 * 10) Trucker lingo

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 22


 * 1) Five more times => five times more?
 * 2) Is the term "Multichannel video programming distributor" used outside the United States?
 * 3) Offenbach synagogue
 * 4) The definition of the Greek word Metaphon that is no longer in use.

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 23


 * 1) Trying to make an acronym/initialism sentence for SHANGRI
 * 2) English title of a Kant's work
 * 3) Word describing style of speech
 * 4) what is the Chinese name for Vaisakhi?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 24


 * 1) C word v. B word
 * 2) Wass up?
 * 3) "speculated to be"

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 25


 * 1) Question about a word found in the article Hindu milk miracle
 * 2) Billfold or Wallet
 * 3) Chipping/Koping
 * 4) Vulgate

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 26


 * 1) Hollandia
 * 2) Day of the week/date punctuation
 * 3) One English word which describes both "type of solution" and "type of expression"
 * 4) What do Seita and Setsuko say at 5:07 in this video?
 * 5) Semivowels and lax vowels

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 27


 * 1) go one's bond
 * 2) Double diacritic letters

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 28


 * 1) To lay out
 * 2) Insanitary or unsanitary?
 * 3) "Ej", "icke", "inte"
 * 4) Us?

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 29


 * 1) Mini-text standards
 * 2) Doubling Down
 * 3) Greek Spelling

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 30


 * 1) Polish and German speakers needed to check sources an article.
 * 2) Cancer village in China
 * 3) Living out of a car

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 31


 * 1) complex sentence
 * 2) Pronunciation change moving from noun to adjective