Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2009

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 1


 * 1) Roman Emperors' names

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 2


 * 1) Use of IPA for general purposes
 * 2) CV Objective
 * 3) I need help writing a romantic letter - a clever one
 * 4) Requesting translation from a Cyrillic-alphabet language, almost certainly Russian
 * 5) Geico gekko
 * 6) is there a verb tense (in any language) that does all three of these at the same time?

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 3


 * 1) List of 1000 most common French words
 * 2) Monthly anniversary called "Mensiversary"
 * 3) Why is there a J in 'Juventus'?
 * 4) Expats using local words even if there is an English equivalent

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 4


 * 1) Kanji Pernounciation
 * 2) A question about some interrogative words in English

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 5


 * 1) Help me with this report
 * 2) Bbiblical book abbreviations in northern European languages
 * 3) IPA mouth shapes
 * 4) How to write IPA by hand.
 * 5) Ordinary words suddenly become strange and unfamiliar?
 * 6) Looking for a language with the following two attributes:

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 6


 * 1) Word for people worried about current moral decay
 * 2) IPA question
 * 3) Punctuation
 * 4) The two pronunciation systems of J and Y

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 7


 * 1) The missing Arlésienne
 * 2) Slang word for "understand" with sci-fi origin
 * 3) Learning an African language for "fun"
 * 4) words translated to Spanish

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 8


 * 1) Forms referring to somebody doing an action
 * 2) Der Teufel sitzt im Spiegel
 * 3) Emergency rhyme

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 9


 * 1) Lambda
 * 2) Are both sentences the same?

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 10


 * 1) Gallus gallus
 * 2) "contract conclusion" meaning entering into vs. finishing a contract?
 * 3) Translation from Polish (?) Bulgarian

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 11


 * 1) Low German map
 * 2) Does grammar reflect the structure of the human world?
 * 3) Biblical name meanings

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 12


 * 1) Term for scholarly or literary "detective work"
 * 2) What is a word?
 * 3) Off
 * 4) "0.57 second" or "0.57 seconds"?

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 13


 * 1) English creoles
 * 2) Arabic
 * 3) bejeebees

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 14


 * 1) Is there any living language, other than English, which makes a full distinction between: "in", "at", "to"?
 * 2) What are the easiest natural languages for studying by non-natives?
 * 3) Is there any English word having double-h, except for "withhold" (and its derivatives, e.g. withheld etc.)?

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 15


 * 1) "Oink Oink" in Greek
 * 2) Unknown chinese fabric item
 * 3) The quality of being altruistic
 * 4) Yet another German question - (be)fragen
 * 5) For fun only (macro-areal feature?)
 * 6) Frances
 * 7) Japanese translation of martial arts title

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 16


 * 1) Boccaccio
 * 2) Off with his/her/their head(s)!
 * 3) Enjoying someone's support
 * 4) Third cousin twice removed
 * 5) Perfect anagrams of notable people's names
 * 6) Old English words

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 17


 * 1) Looking for translation
 * 2) Caesarion = Little Caesar?

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 18


 * 1) What kind of hat is this?
 * 2) confidentiality
 * 3) Russian heaven?

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 19


 * 1) ASL Sign Identification
 * 2) two words, Gaelic to English translation
 * 3) Al-Qaeda as name
 * 4) american weevil

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 20


 * 1) Accent
 * 2) Akkadian logograms
 * 3) Name for particular expression

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 21


 * 1) Unfortunate or intentional?
 * 2) Origin and explanation of common definitions of Atheism
 * 3) german spelling
 * 4) Pronunciation of River Lugg
 * 5) The new Great Vowel Shift
 * 6) Italian to English Translation

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 22


 * 1) Seminal architect
 * 2) german math translation
 * 3) British Dialect Question.
 * 4) What does वृन्दावन क्षाम mean?
 * 5) Spoken ambiguity

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 23


 * 1) Need translation
 * 2) A term for little things
 * 3) drug dealer referral
 * 4) wikipedia etiquette
 * 5) program of c
 * 6) 1984
 * 7) English Umlaut?

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 24


 * 1) Is there a word for this:
 * 2) Old Irish pronunciations
 * 3) Swadesh-type list
 * 4) Toward
 * 5) read and write
 * 6) Maghrebi Arabic Translation?
 * 7) Igor Kurchatov
 * 8) (Old) German surname
 * 9) Horse A was "foaled by" horse B

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 25


 * 1) Circumbobulate
 * 2) Pronunciation of Grzegorczyk (Polish)
 * 3) French nasal vowels
 * 4) Pluralisation of sports teams

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 26


 * 1) Umlauts
 * 2) English punctuation here
 * 3) Making Little Words From Big Words
 * 4) How many Czars?
 * 5) 'Honeypot' in German?

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 27


 * 1) Rolling Rs
 * 2) Welsh pronunciation
 * 3) Comic
 * 4) Chinese
 * 5) Hebrew transliteration
 * 6) Fixing errors
 * 7) Filmology
 * 8) Medial consonant clusters in Spanish

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 28


 * 1) Welsh language

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 29


 * 1) "Cntr + Alt + Del situation"
 * 2) Short latin phrase
 * 3) Lofty Latin
 * 4) voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ in the Piedmontese language
 * 5) Ares I-X
 * 6) Kara

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 30


 * 1) How does Admiral Masorin's name translate and is it Ukrainian?
 * 2) Pronunciation of Ernestine
 * 3) English - Meaning of "separatism"
 * 4) Chinese Sentences Translation
 * 5) Two pronunciation questions
 * 6) Finnish auxiliary verbs

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 31


 * 1) idiom as a noun
 * 2) Russian dialects
 * 3) Proper Nouns
 * 4) what is the meaning of this Chinese comment on my wiki entry?
 * 5) Pachakutiq, Pachacútec, Pachacuti