Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2008

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 1


 * 1) Bach title
 * 2) Exposition to alcohol causes...
 * 3) even more probable to be true
 * 4) Scottish
 * 5) Unidentified symbol
 * 6) Journalist with foreign accent?
 * 7) Please translate the following?

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 2


 * 1) english language
 * 2) Translation
 * 3) Two statements
 * 4) Power to seniority - one word?
 * 5) War with oneself
 * 6) A study about English
 * 7) Is there an equivalent to "teenager" etc in those other languages?
 * 8) "have all but"
 * 9) omonimus
 * 10) Latin jokes
 * 11) Six sigma projects
 * 12) Titular character

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 3


 * 1) Punctuation question
 * 2) Jesus in Shakespeare
 * 3) Style: "first and only debate" vs. "only debate"
 * 4) a lot vs. alot
 * 5) Parallelism Help
 * 6) Iconic?
 * 7) Too many words?
 * 8) How many debuts are permitted?

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 4


 * 1) I double dog dare ya
 * 2) How young are young people?
 * 3) "Indian-American"?
 * 4) Briefest/most efficient written language
 * 5) Homework help
 * 6) Ayatollah means...?

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 5


 * 1) Number of speakers of any second language
 * 2) Cashing some Travellers Cheques in Korea.
 * 3) End of meeting - adjourned/dissolution
 * 4) Indeed
 * 5) kind of abbreviation
 * 6) Japanese question
 * 7) Plural of "man’s man"

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 6


 * 1) Is this source saying "Luçoes" in Portuguese translates into "Luzons" in English?
 * 2) curriculum vitae
 * 3) Japanese
 * 4) Inelegant or appropriate?
 * 5) Audio Japanese dictionary
 * 6) Latin duck translation

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 7


 * 1) Hitler's accent
 * 2) Career
 * 3) France and Spain
 * 4) Prefix

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 8


 * 1) Shark
 * 2) Grammar question
 * 3) Listas repr.

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 9


 * 1) ENGLISH
 * 2) Samuel Segev
 * 3) 中國人如何學好英語？
 * 4) English Language Diagram or Graph
 * 5) Which is correct American English?
 * 6) Right grammar?
 * 7) Pollepel Island
 * 8) neutral toward religion

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 10


 * 1) Anglicisms in other languages
 * 2) Saline solution or water?
 * 3) Translation request: English → Esperanto
 * 4) Translation from Italian requested

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 11


 * 1) Japanese Question:  抑揚がない?
 * 2) Condolezza Rice
 * 3) Ř
 * 4) "I had a question which answer is likely to vary from person to person"

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 12


 * 1) P. that W.'s?
 * 2) Speaking of Wodehouse
 * 3) Seasons of capitalization
 * 4) Unknown language
 * 5) モバイルダイアリ
 * 6) Mystery language? Code?
 * 7) Linguistics
 * 8) Signing Versus Subtitles
 * 9) Finnish/English song translation- Väkirauta by Korpiklaani

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 13


 * 1) Sounds like
 * 2) What language:
 * 3) Lower case Cyrillic "Te"
 * 4) ...ussia?
 * 5) English to Welsh translation please
 * 6) Comma or no comma?

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 14


 * 1) Stephen Fry on Room 101
 * 2) Haitian Creole-English + vice versa dictionary
 * 3) NLP Language course
 * 4) in or at
 * 5) Odin's Pig
 * 6) Referring to yourself as Mr.

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 15


 * 1) English to Spanish translation
 * 2) Hump(s)
 * 3) On the characteristics of brand name
 * 4) I think my text contains a lot of mistakes
 * 5) Writing a letter in Icelandic
 * 6) How is "seleção" pronounced?

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 16


 * 1) Sentence construction
 * 2) Netherlands in espanol
 * 3) Quu
 * 4) Bahrain
 * 5) Switch engines off or switch off engines
 * 6) “The banks just are not lending.” vs. “The banks are just not lending.”
 * 7) "I think it is more important than ever that he win." vs. "I think it is more important than ever that he wins."
 * 8) Is it al-Maliki or Maliki
 * 9) Sentence structure
 * 10) Honouring fatalities?
 * 11) Number of languages needed to speak to 50% of world
 * 12) 'Law words'

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 17


 * 1) might
 * 2) Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM
 * 3) French naming negatives
 * 4) Appropriateness of "whom" in spoken English
 * 5) Meaning of Italian word vergognosco
 * 6) a quatre pas d'ici
 * 7) I.e. or I.E. ?
 * 8) Pear shaped

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 18


 * 1) Czech Version of Name
 * 2) Kanji Help

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 19


 * 1) what do you call this thing used in book shelves?
 * 2) How did the phrase "Old wives' tale" come about?
 * 3) Is there any real difference between these two sentences
 * 4) sample of formal vs. informal english
 * 5) -ev ending in Russian surnames
 * 6) Help with pronunciaion
 * 7) in italian they use settemlia bace per te Why use 7000?
 * 8) Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana use
 * 9) "...both tumour suppressor and oncogenic pathways"
 * 10) Lanuages with masc./fem. 2nd person
 * 11) "Mada mada dane!"

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 20


 * 1) Grammatical gender
 * 2) spanish or apache languauge translation
 * 3) debate judge vocabulary

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 21


 * 1) What does one call the term that causes the emergence of a complementary retronym?
 * 2) Latin initials
 * 3) Frequency of Initial Letters of the Alphabet worldwide & on wikipedia
 * 4) A particular apostrophe problem
 * 5) Symbols on Wiki globe
 * 6) الموسيقى

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 22


 * 1) word derivation/history
 * 2) Spanish translation
 * 3) Parental warning
 * 4) Writing on Indian Rocket Chandrayaan-1 (Hindi)
 * 5) Help with a Latin language British title
 * 6) What is the Chinese term "金童玉女" in English?
 * 7) Overlapping subsets
 * 8) how does english sound to others?
 * 9) Past tense uses of the verb "to text"
 * 10) Celtic/Irish/Welsh Symbolism Sign Language

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 23


 * 1) Ballots and votes

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 24


 * 1) Russian spam
 * 2) Map of world languages
 * 3) Template for  this Article needs to be copyedited by a native English speaker ?
 * 4) Quick question [agreement of verb with compound subject]
 * 5) Japanese Question
 * 6) Accents of Hitchcock and Karloff
 * 7) Kamikaze
 * 8) Japanese Merchant Ships

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 25


 * 1) Japanese translation
 * 2) A note on masculine as default grammatical gender
 * 3) Punctuation [in Charade, and in Shakespeare?]
 * 4) Kde domov muj? [Czech pronunciation]
 * 5) Does a word/phrase exist for this type of "getting caught"?
 * 6) Pronunciation guide
 * 7) Phobia name

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 26


 * 1) Magazine name
 * 2) Truck driver who likes to drive in stocking feet
 * 3) Subject / verb agreement
 * 4) Laugh(ing) like a drain
 * 5) Good name?
 * 6) American 'save the world' films

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 27


 * 1) Itinerant job?
 * 2) Swimming halls and pools
 * 3) Mandarin Chinese: “Wŏ bú shì hěn qióng. “ vs. “Wŏ bú shì qióng. ”
 * 4) Adding extra letters to words

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 28


 * 1) Shorthand and ignorance
 * 2) Planet / Star in Cantonese
 * 3) Russian translation
 * 4) latin-english translation
 * 5) Although, therefore, ....
 * 6) Salutations
 * 7) Frequency of Initial Letters of the Alphabet worldwide or on wikipedia
 * 8) Morphology of figures of speech
 * 9) Questions about Late Egyptian
 * 10) Origin of the word Skerrick
 * 11) That'll teach you to ...
 * 12) Chinese question

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 29


 * 1) Opposite sex insult
 * 2) Form of the name "Harbour Town": why the letter "u"?
 * 3) Expression [meaning of "dressed up to the sixes and nines"]
 * 4) Latin question
 * 5) Russian Song Lyrics

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 30


 * 1) Translating Articles
 * 2) MATTHEW HENSON
 * 3) Translation from Spanish or Portugeuse
 * 4) Age [use of hyphens]

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 31


 * 1) using commas
 * 2) Laying or lying
 * 3) Can someone identify this poem?
 * 4) Meaning of Máj