Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2015

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 1


 * 1) "Can't be helped" and Japanese
 * 2) "Nader Nadernejad" may not match encyclopedic tone?

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 2


 * 1) What are these Chinese characters?
 * 2) Drug delivery
 * 3) When the man said alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, I naturally assumed he was making a delivery." Can anyone trace the original source
 * 4) What is this Arabic text? (small and hard to see)

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 3


 * 1) Persian (including Old Persian): Does it have any word similar to the English word "good" by both sound and meaning?
 * 2) Latin-to-English translation

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 4


 * 1) Does this sentence convey my message?
 * 2) Arabic question: German School of Beirut
 * 3) De nada
 * 4) History of the abbreviations 'ag' or 'a/g' (for "acting")

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 5


 * 1) A short term for scaling up/ mass production difficulty
 * 2) Metric body height
 * 3) (Slavo-) Macedonian folk song
 * 4) Categorizing help

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 6


 * 1) What does "in funds" mean?
 * 2) Slang words for "nothing"

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 7


 * 1) IPA pronunciation of Thuc Doan Nguyen
 * 2) Saying sorry after bumping into someone?
 * 3) What Arabic text corresponds to the name of the AEFE

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 8


 * 1) What is a Better English Translation for "d'Astronome titulaire"?
 * 2) Is this readable enough for university students?
 * 3) Need help getting content from site in Arabic
 * 4) death to whom?

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 9


 * 1) What is the Korean in this image?
 * 2) Pasty Faced
 * 3) Italian:"Amaretti"

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 10


 * 1) What tears you apart?

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 11


 * 1) "What all" in American dialect(s)
 * 2) Rather or fairly difficult?
 * 3) What is the answer (or opposite side) for "Less is more"

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 12


 * 1) Grammaticality of "let's English"

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 13


 * 1) Japanese question
 * 2) MPs

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 14


 * 1) Does anyone remember this thread?
 * 2) Congolese

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 15


 * 1) What does this sentence mean?
 * 2) Lithuanian question

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 16


 * 1) What is this given name relationship called?
 * 2) Writing method

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 17


 * 1) Greeting to mourners sitting shiva:   "שאר" or "שער"?
 * 2) "giving" and "receiving"
 * 3) Lack of relative directions

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 18


 * 1) Multiple adjectives
 * 2) If and only if

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 19


 * 1) Small talk
 * 2) "Less" vs "not as"
 * 3) And

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 20


 * 1) shorthand transcription needed
 * 2) "True" meaning of "poisonous"
 * 3) Formal languages and natural languages
 * 4) Using "accumulate" as a noun

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 21


 * 1) Gallipot
 * 2) What's the provenance of the given name Ahsan?
 * 3) Japanese question: info on a book written about the Japanese school of Manaus, Brazil?
 * 4) What's the name of the "promo" (like an abstract or a brief preface) usually printed on the back of books?
 * 5) Fell as past participle of fall (The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down)?
 * 6) Older sibling vs younger sibling in the case of Japanese twins?
 * 7) Explanation

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 22


 * 1) Term for covering of track on vertical blinds?
 * 2) multiple forenames in Spanish
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 22#Why_is_ITMO.27s_URL_ifmo.ru.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fen.ifmo.ru.2F.5D.3F|Why is ITMO's URL ifmo.ru?]]
 * 4) Looking for a word...

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 23


 * 1) The letter J
 * 2) Late Old English words derived from Old French or Anglo-Norman/Old Norman?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 24


 * 1) Term for a demographic
 * 2) Help with Latin RPG Button

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 25


 * 1) When were spaces introduced in Hangul?
 * 2) Finnish accent in the German language?
 * 3) Wienerisch
 * 4) What does 'tschicko? tschicko!' mean in German?

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 26


 * 1) On the grammar and style of long sentences.
 * 2) A pride of lions

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 27


 * 1) Untruism?
 * 2) Soul/Spirit

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 28


 * 1) Pronunciation of  letter in Korean
 * 2) alike and similar
 * 3) apheresis

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 29


 * 1) Are the verbs "to ascertain" and "to determine" complete synonyms?
 * 2) Haček in an American spelling bee?
 * 3) Are you supposed to type one space or two spaces, after a period?
 * 4) "Cogenidad"?

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 30


 * 1) The Rain In Spain
 * 2) Pronuciation of Dupleix
 * 3) Marquee project

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 31


 * 1) Where does the 'n' in the Arabic word for pharaoh come from?