Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2017

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 1


 * 1) Usage of the word Amaranthine
 * 2) Is there a difference between linguistic immersion and living in another country for work?

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 2


 * 1) Development of Chinese characters from holistic to compositional

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 3


 * 1) Motion that each arm swings
 * 2) English -ar vs -er

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 4


 * 1) Creating fictional languages in the entertainment industry
 * 2) German wievielte

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 5


 * 1) "Shaker"?
 * 2) Question mark in Solomon Islands Pijin

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 7


 * 1) Make it happen/make it happens
 * 2) Spanish "bujía" (spark plug)

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 8


 * 1) Can someone help translate the Wiccan rede article into Chinese and the Wiccan rede itself?
 * 2) Katakana script
 * 3) Is the following construction grammatical in English? + "him" +

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 9


 * 1) Swedish lingua franca Scandinavian

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 10


 * 1) "all but"
 * 2) Is Jesús ever a Jewish name?

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 11


 * 1) English: Negation after a question
 * 2) A hard one... ["This is nothing of which I would say I am proud of"]
 * 3) German news phrases

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 12


 * 1) Etymology of the word 'male'
 * 2) To use sth as sth

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 13


 * 1) Myanmar character
 * 2) W sound in Greek

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 15


 * 1) Portuguese name order

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 16


 * 1) Name for pin
 * 2) Chinese translation
 * 3) Which are universal linguistic sounds?

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 17


 * 1) "graveyard cashier"

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 18


 * 1) Tintin's (Traditional) Fonts
 * 2) Decrypting newly found languages

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 19


 * 1) Articles and Latin Speakers
 * 2) A hard one... ["This is nothing of which I would say I am proud of"]
 * 3) Use
 * 4) When a Spaniard says: "Learn how to deal in a restaurant"

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 20


 * 1) Witwatersrand
 * 2) How grammatical are these in UK/Ireland/Aus/NZ?

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 22


 * 1) Russian "возвращение"
 * 2) Linguistic term to describe possessives, dependent clauses, and adverbial inflexions as one collective entity?

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 23


 * 1) Translation from German needed
 * 2) Models or theories or hypotheses in linguistics and impact on the brain and their philosophical bases

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 24


 * 1) Yiddish transcription to Latin alphabet

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 25


 * 1) What does "button job" mean?
 * 2) How similar is Russian and greek

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 26


 * 1) Company names are plural or singular in English?
 * 2) Typos on Polish WP page
 * 3) "Verarschen kann ich mich selber!"
 * 4) Translation of text from Catalan to English

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 27


 * 1) Bad Hand?
 * 2) A hard one... ["This is nothing of which I would say I am proud of"]
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 27#.22Standard_German_is_probably_the_closest_to_Russian_outside_the_existing_Balto-Slavic_languages.22.5Bhttps:.2F.2Fen.wikipedia.org.2Fw.2Findex.php.3Ftitle.3DWikipedia:Reference_desk.2FLanguage.26diff.3D812258154.26oldid.3D812255659_.2A.5D|"Standard German is probably the closest to Russian outside the existing Balto-Slavic languages"*]]
 * 4) Glottal stops in Aussie English

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 28


 * 1) 为什么 vs 为神马 vs 為什麼
 * 2) Nicaraguan Sign Language center-embedding: is it unique?

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 29


 * 1) Similarities between English and German
 * 2) Is there a term for trying to get information out of a dream through your phone?