Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2008

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 1


 * 1) French Michel
 * 2) Ancient Greek translation?
 * 3) Template:Consonants
 * 4) Capitalisation of noun
 * 5) essay
 * 6) Using the word "superlative"
 * 7) Requesting Translation from antique to modern English.

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 2


 * 1) "7" as a letter

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 3


 * 1) Messed-up Unicode
 * 2) The origin of the word "pipa"
 * 3) Capitalisation [Googling a term in biochemistry]
 * 4) "In the tank"
 * 5) "Find it curious"

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 4


 * 1) Age/aged 18
 * 2) i need prepation sheets of english / secondary school/ Algeria
 * 3) how do I get to the lowercase numbers?
 * 4) Road map for peace
 * 5) Articulating in writing?
 * 6) Untitled
 * 7) In addition to 5 feet 10 inches, I have all my hair.
 * 8) Una pregunta
 * 9) Learning about other cultures
 * 10) Latin phras:e question

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 5


 * 1) Welsh lyrics

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 6


 * 1) English to Latin or vice versa translation site?
 * 2) Ant and ent words (mainly adjectives)
 * 3) Redundant clichés
 * 4) tot seffens in belgium mean?
 * 5) Native speakers of British English needed!
 * 6) Lunch horn
 * 7) synonym for thankful
 * 8) Children learning/speaking tonal languages

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 7


 * 1) Pronunciation question: "Español"
 * 2) languages of scholarship and science?
 * 3) origin of phrase, "little pictures (pitchers?) have big ears"
 * 4) Nonsense sounds of English

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 8


 * 1) What makes hash so special it gets its own verb?
 * 2) "Something for the weekend"

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 9


 * 1) Ho hum he him, I smell the blood of a grammarian.
 * 2) Animal groupings and sexual identitites
 * 3) Question [global financial crisis]

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 10


 * 1) Software to analyse word usage
 * 2) Translation into English of letters written by Antoine Gaubil

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 11


 * 1) Querer
 * 2) use of word "squat" as in "squatted by the homeless"
 * 3) Latin help

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 12


 * 1) are any words a pair (like the article a/an) but with the form chosen for whether a vowel or consonant sound PRECEDES it?
 * 2) DMZ우유 -- are there cows in the DMZ?
 * 3) BUSINESS LETTER

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 13


 * 1) Japanese Calligraphy
 * 2) minimal pairs?
 * 3) English to Spanish Translation
 * 4) J→E: 感動の定期演奏会バトル
 * 5) How do you pronounce "Aegeus"?
 * 6) Did X use the word Y?
 * 7) Poems about insanity
 * 8) Opium Wars

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 14


 * 1) Edit help Kemps Creek, New South Wales
 * 2) Laptops vs. notebooks
 * 3) Burglar's tool
 * 4) How to improve communication skills in spanish and english language.
 * 5) interdental fricative
 * 6) May I have a word, please ?

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 15


 * 1) seeking a defintion
 * 2) Bangladesh
 * 3) House style?
 * 4) "Non silba sed anthar"

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 16


 * 1) Classical Greek Literature in Original
 * 2) seeking a word by providing a definition
 * 3) Generic term for "Weeble"
 * 4) Obsession with mice
 * 5) Lamina
 * 6) Double "L" in Spanish
 * 7) Japanese dictionary online
 * 8) Avoiding questions without saying 'mind your own business'
 * 9) Extras in name company

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 17


 * 1) Gamers
 * 2) German pronunciation of Streusel
 * 3) "he" and "she" nouns
 * 4) Japanese automatic translation
 * 5) Gender or sex?

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 18


 * 1) Simple German translation
 * 2) Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL)
 * 3) Language and meaning of Brooklyn seal
 * 4) Questions on slang
 * 5) why do we capitalize the word 'I'?
 * 6) grammar
 * 7) The term 'Consumer Inflation'

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 19


 * 1) How are Arabic names sorted in telephone books?
 * 2) Pronunciation
 * 3) Pronunciation of Italian surname
 * 4) Tense when refering to fiction
 * 5) Icelandic pronunciation
 * 6) Chad languages
 * 7) Arabic name for a Palestinian man?

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 20


 * 1) "Full of p and v"
 * 2) grammar/prepositions
 * 3) Connotation in another language
 * 4) Keep it simple, STUPID?
 * 5) another way to say gag gift
 * 6) self referential spoonerism
 * 7) The works done by Ullysses are...
 * 8) French: le coeur au bord des yeux
 * 9) Inverted question mark

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 21


 * 1) Japanese Collective Nouns
 * 2) Pronunciation of Maori
 * 3) Is there a name for this distinction?
 * 4) "Wissembourg Gap" en français
 * 5) Cipher

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 22


 * 1) Clear as Mud

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 23


 * 1) Chinese: Stroke order for 〇 (líng)
 * 2) is there a predominant gender for nouns in Romance languages?
 * 3) Do bilingual people claim to think in any particular language?
 * 4) how did people cope with the language barrier in coloniial/ military settings etc?
 * 5) "Pricked off"

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 24


 * 1) German "Kunststoffdispersion"
 * 2) Post-WWII memorial text in Italian
 * 3) Learning French Online
 * 4) Starting sentences with 'which' and 'but'
 * 5) Hyphen ["break-ages"?]
 * 6) IPA - /ˌjuːnənˈsɛptiəm/
 * 7) 'Collectible'

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 25


 * 1) Middle lane
 * 2) Norwegian Writing
 * 3) English to  Arabic
 * 4) Rewording sentence
 * 5) 'Heave' offering ?
 * 6) Pronounciation of Berkeley

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 26


 * 1) Character
 * 2) Japanese translation
 * 3) Primary Sources concerning the Mongolian Empire's Legacy
 * 4) 'Reiterate'
 * 5) Ditloid riddle
 * 6) Looking for a word
 * 7) Lotus in a Pond

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 27


 * 1) Need translation, if that's OK
 * 2) "Our team are always available"
 * 3) Spanish: "el café de por la tarde"
 * 4) A SSL or an SSL?
 * 5) The origins of an 'X' symbolising kiss

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 28


 * 1) Feminized form of Radecký
 * 2) Active Voice
 * 3) Persons vs People
 * 4) meaning of jewish word
 * 5) References to foreign languages
 * 6) Old English "to be"
 * 7) Help me find Japanese engineering book

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 29


 * 1) war on terror
 * 2) Clarification [Chinese Muslims' ancestor, in BBC documentary]

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 30


 * 1) "s' ans s's" usage
 * 2) Racine translation from Sartre
 * 3) English to Chinese translation
 * 4) Barfußroute
 * 5) Hungarian language query: Dolgozók vs Munkás
 * 6) German words