Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2010

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 1


 * 1) Quick brown fox of IPA? (Phonetic pangram?)
 * 2) Rare sounds
 * 3) one more question
 * 4) What do taxidermists do?
 * 5) ffebruary
 * 6) Spanish caja -> cajón, taza -> tazón
 * 7) Changing gender ?

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 2


 * 1) Wages of sin is death
 * 2) Nervous in the service
 * 3) Examples of the type "I saw the bomb burst".
 * 4) Translation request Lithuanian (?) to English
 * 5) Hindi: meaning of word on sign, appears to be सीनेकी

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 3


 * 1) Different past tenses of "hang"
 * 2) Comma usage
 * 3) "Grandma's back forty"
 * 4) Help remembering a word

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 4


 * 1) estoy un perrito regazo or soy un perrito regazo
 * 2) Prohibitive mood in passive voice
 * 3) Adj-N mismatch

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 5


 * 1) What's the word I'm looking for

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 6


 * 1) Rhyming "root" with "foot"
 * 2) Rational national

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 7


 * 1) Why does Old English capitalize random words?
 * 2) Chinese dialects
 * 3) Canadian accent
 * 4) "Turn of the last century"
 * 5) essay
 * 6) Chinese or Japanese translation please
 * 7) Finnish translation: Artist's archived website contains address: his, or his reps?
 * 8) "Assumed the role of"
 * 9) Adjectives from names
 * 10) DECtalk voice of Stephen Hawking

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 8


 * 1) Double -er in fruiterer
 * 2) Mario Vargas Llosa
 * 3) E-mail reply etiquette
 * 4) Distinguish spoken Wallon from French

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 9


 * 1) Old Latin and Greek translation
 * 2) French place names containing the letter “Ŭ”
 * 3) Not a tyrant or dictator
 * 4) God willing
 * 5) Goebbels

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 10


 * 1) Expression, Phrase or Term?
 * 2) Need German translation
 * 3) Chinese
 * 4) Klingon alphabet

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 11


 * 1) 'Foot-perfect'?
 * 2) How do I pronounce this name
 * 3) Politeness in English

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 12


 * 1) Colourful verbs
 * 2) "Origin of 'going to the John' " question from the Reference Desk/Humanities
 * 3) Out-Google Google?

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 13


 * 1) French verbs
 * 2) Gender of non-Romance toponyms in Spanish
 * 3) What language is this?
 * 4) French

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 14


 * 1) what's the arabic script say/mean in this photo?
 * 2) Last names
 * 3) Antananarivo = Tananariv?

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 15


 * 1) Looking for better phrasing
 * 2) Part of a tree
 * 3) Latin translation please.
 * 4) "Perfide" (fr.) and "perfidious" (Eng.)

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 16


 * 1) German word gender
 * 2) "shine" as a slur for a black person
 * 3) Word for piece of ground upon which UK Motorway Service Area is built?
 * 4) french de

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 17


 * 1) Rake building
 * 2) How many words?

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 18


 * 1) Request for translation: English to Thai
 * 2) How to pronounce Mettā?
 * 3) Function pointer
 * 4) Hindi
 * 5) Yo maricón

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 19


 * 1) Japanese language question
 * 2) Japanese alphanumeric codes
 * 3) Kid -- the young of the goat and the young of the human, are they related somehow?
 * 4) Dear Whom It may concern,
 * 5) Not quite paranoid

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 20


 * 1) Book says this sentence is correct:
 * 2) Fluency in a language in a year?
 * 3) where do the most beautiful women live?
 * 4) is this irony?
 * 5) Hyphen in Dutch cabinet names
 * 6) English to Spanish translation request
 * 7) meaning of a word
 * 8) how to remember a.m. and p.m.
 * 9) British English

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 21


 * 1) Spatial timeline
 * 2) "If" means, both: "provided that", and: "whether".
 * 3) Summary proofreading
 * 4) Italian "ne" -- what is it, grammatically?
 * 5) Alternative "Shakespeare" theories - claimants, candidates, what?
 * 6) Hung Huang reading

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 22


 * 1) Kanji variants
 * 2) Irish Pronunciation
 * 3) Odd positioning of tilde to replace "fi"
 * 4) To
 * 5) Adding a comma changes the meaning
 * 6) Is this a misuse of the verb "deplore"?
 * 7) Chinese poems
 * 8) Abbreviation of "million"
 * 9) French pronunciation

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 23


 * 1) French ne
 * 2) Long speech by a character
 * 3) The term "half-staff" in the UK, Ireland, India and other English-speaking countries
 * 4) Meridiem (Latin)
 * 5) Is this a perfectly cromulent word?
 * 6) Adjectives

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 24


 * 1) The Conn
 * 2) Spanish graffito
 * 3) Irish Surname

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 25


 * 1) Dem Deutschen Volke

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 26


 * 1) Jhalan and Lohoni
 * 2) Stereotyped accents in Spanish
 * 3) English speech speed
 * 4) "Spouting forth"?

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 27


 * 1) "Coming from a good family"
 * 2) Are there formal rules for Gibraltan language?
 * 3) Ford and Lincoln
 * 4) Double-duty word in headline
 * 5) Anonymous letter
 * 6) Myths about origins of language
 * 7) English Speakers

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 28


 * 1) "successfully completed" and "successfully passed"
 * 2) meaning of "except to the extent expressly provided for"
 * 3) Chinese characters to pinyin?
 * 4) Henning's weird accent

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 29


 * 1) original language of the natives of CYPRUS
 * 2) Linguistic research methods
 * 3) Spoken French comprehension
 * 4) Etymology and meaning of scradging
 * 5) Accents

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 30


 * 1) de:Kanzlei, da:Kancelli, etc.
 * 2) Japanese coin
 * 3) Names of French Origin
 * 4) "Ding dong the bitch is dead"
 * 5) Speech speed

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 31


 * 1) Reese'ses
 * 2) Mercury, Saturn, and Subaru