Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2017

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 2


 * 1) "Roll" in "thunder"
 * 2) Using "we" for prehistoric human-like animals
 * 3) Is "underwhelming" a perfectly normal word?

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 3


 * 1) Tastes and flavors to describe personality
 * 2) "Not unlike"
 * 3) Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 4


 * 1) Quiz with rough homophones - sounding out border cases
 * 2) "Expressiveness" of different natural languages
 * 3) Manner of writing Roman letters

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 7


 * 1) Ankhesenpaaten
 * 2) Word for "chimpanzee" in Arabic
 * 3) Arabic: Does رهم or رهام or راهم or راهام mean anything?

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 8


 * 1) Polyglot?
 * 2) Pan (Genus), origin of the word

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 9


 * 1) Words with the -ine ending that describe things like specific animals
 * 2) word for...

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 11


 * 1) Author(s) of a Chinese article
 * 2) Declined to violence
 * 3) Simplified language for American troops
 * 4) English word that means "to walk around the perimeter of land"

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 12


 * 1) "Are you embarrassed of me ?"
 * 2) Two lines I can't make out in a song in a Norwegian dialect

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 13


 * 1) Conocer with or without the a?
 * 2) Diacritical mark on the e in wretched and winged
 * 3) How to find language partner for Cajun French?

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 14


 * 1) Cow-Honeybourne
 * 2) Chinese quotation style
 * 3) 'not' favourable
 * 4) Swedish and swahili in "Out of Africa"
 * 5) "She got pregnant with her/his/their/the couple's baby."

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 15


 * 1) Transliteration from Arabic
 * 2) How many languages have ever existed?

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 16


 * 1) Ah (阿)
 * 2) Underdots for cerebrals

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 17


 * 1) incredible
 * 2) "I am an alt"
 * 3) A Spanish/Russian r and a French/German r, in the same language.
 * 4) Uses of the terms "Middle" and "Old English"

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 18


 * 1) Translating Rohan
 * 2) 'To share a measure in common'
 * 3) What did Russian ca. 17-18th C. really sound like?
 * 4) Classifying sounds: consonants and vowels vs. obstruents and sonorants

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 19


 * 1) Translation from German

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 20


 * 1) 'not' favourable [reposted]
 * 2) Names of nationalities in ASL
 * 3) Not eating anything that has eyes
 * 4) English and French polyglot
 * 5) A moment-ous question
 * 6) English consonants sorted by frequency

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 21


 * 1) backlash
 * 2) "Millions of data"?

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 22


 * 1) Is there a term for intentionally wasting a person's time ?
 * 2) Abstract-object-only transitive verbs and generative grammar

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 23


 * 1) Has a linguist made a rough pecking order of languages​ or accents by "average amount of tone variations and stress"?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 24


 * 1) Which Versus That

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 25


 * 1) Japanese seal

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 26


 * 1) Teochew: 白仁
 * 2) What language is "Hays hark nviranats ukhti"
 * 3) Sibilant naming
 * 4) Origin of the phrase "A Drink Before the War"

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 27


 * 1) Post-Brexit EU languages
 * 2) Theory that chi does not derive from samekh

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 28


 * 1) Jowisz
 * 2) opposite

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 29


 * 1) Male Elizabeths
 * 2) Modern Greek, pronunciation.

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 31


 * 1) Colons and semicolons
 * 2) "self " and "bone ", denoted by the same word, in various languages.