Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2011

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 1


 * 1) listening exercises
 * 2) What language is the word "Yohé"?
 * 3) Give someone the shaft
 * 4) Esperanto ig

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 2


 * 1) Sorry A Know I Know

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 3


 * 1) Caramell lyrics
 * 2) Is satis dicto the proper ablative absolute...?
 * 3) Arabic dialectology: Is ج (ǧīm) ever a solar letter?
 * 4) Whether/if
 * 5) Writing archaic speech
 * 6) 'Rise of [xxx] was meteoric'
 * 7) tagalog
 * 8) Sushi vs. zushi
 * 9) Cavan Orphanage Fire
 * 10) Quel que vs. quoi que

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 4


 * 1) Leiten vs. führen
 * 2) How do you pronounce "th" in Indian names?
 * 3) More German synonyms
 * 4) Spanish Audio for learning
 * 5) Switching between English and Malay(?)

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 5


 * 1) Edge
 * 2) French help - "Slashed themselves"
 * 3) Varieties of Spanish

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 6


 * 1) Ĥ
 * 2) Spoken decimal comma
 * 3) "Right" and "Right"
 * 4) Seeking help from German-speaker
 * 5) Request for a brief phonetic Greek translation to English (may possibly be obscene)

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 7


 * 1) Spell check (English).
 * 2) language
 * 3) In appropriate    Please  EDIT.
 * 4) origin of the word Tory

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 8


 * 1) pronunciation
 * 2) Orange
 * 3) Mr. idiot in Brussel
 * 4) Enclosed Infinity Symbol

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 9


 * 1) Esperanto hx
 * 2) Kosten the same as schmecken (to taste)

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 10


 * 1) Japanese translation
 * 2) Explaining the concept of את (as in et, not at) to a non-Hebrew speaker
 * 3) Child preference for accusative
 * 4) Origin of word yep
 * 5) Spanish translation
 * 6) However?

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 11


 * 1) As Perpendicular as a Quaker
 * 2) Portuguese: masculine name ending in -inha
 * 3) "not unwilling"
 * 4) was "surprise" once pronounced with an ee?
 * 5) How do you pronounce "Thinnes"
 * 6) fue vs. era

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 12


 * 1) Kraft vs. Macht (German Question)
 * 2) Is this a real or imagined conflation?
 * 3) What language is this?
 * 4) Symbol on the Wikipedia globe
 * 5) What does "beadboard siding" mean?
 * 6) French necessities
 * 7) Pluperfect

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 13


 * 1) Gived
 * 2) Need help contacting scholar -- must speak French
 * 3) Phrase on the gates of a Chinese Pure Land Buddhist temple
 * 4) Is Yiddish German?
 * 5) Name for minimum screen size when the rendering of compacted text breaks down
 * 6) Chinese measure words
 * 7) Eo Prepositions
 * 8) The origin of the name "KODAK"

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 14


 * 1) Quality of online Chinese dictionaries?
 * 2) Klingon vs Esperanto
 * 3) english language
 * 4) Shreedevi

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 15


 * 1) "English is a particularly good technical language"
 * 2) buddhi

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 16


 * 1) Was "know" or "knight" ever pronounced with a K?
 * 2) Universal language
 * 3) Pronunciation of i
 * 4) origin

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 17


 * 1) Pè
 * 2) "fall from grace"
 * 3) Japanese reading question
 * 4) to wear off on sb.
 * 5) language
 * 6) Source of "Maunt" used for "Nun" in Gregory Maguire's Wicked
 * 7) Icelandic pronunciation question
 * 8) Great new word

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 18


 * 1) I'm no grammatician (grammaticist? grammologist?) but...
 * 2) Whipper Snapper
 * 3) Pahss-par-too?
 * 4) Name of footballer
 * 5) Where/we're
 * 6) Professional's professional
 * 7) Thee/thou

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 19


 * 1) Are both of these correct
 * 2) Is כלום a portmanteau word?
 * 3) Dardanus and Danaans
 * 4) British spelling

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 20


 * 1) Extended vowels in Chinese
 * 2) Is there an English <-> Sign Language translator anywhere?
 * 3) Does Wilmer = Vladimir ?

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 21


 * 1) Spelling, grammar etc.
 * 2) Yiddish
 * 3) Grammar help please
 * 4) whats right?

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 22


 * 1) ab- father?
 * 2) Porgy and Bess question
 * 3) Steeking, et al
 * 4) Rahel and Estha(ppen)

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 23


 * 1) why would a great reckoning in a little room strike a man dead?
 * 2) Question: A long sentence
 * 3) Unfamiliar word
 * 4) Problem with traditional Chinese character: three-stroke water radical on the left, 門  with a little 東 underneath
 * 5) Italian learners' podcasts
 * 6) Roman
 * 7) Vowel length in Japanese songs
 * 8) Acronyms and redundant spelling

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 24


 * 1) Need a blindingly good word, please
 * 2) Y as initial letter of a name in Polish or German
 * 3) What is it?
 * 4) Repeating the message
 * 5) Chinese translation of characters on a wall hanging
 * 6) his gang vs. the gang
 * 7) Serbo-Croat spelling

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 25


 * 1) English translation of SARFT Chinese film law
 * 2) Word for Phenomenon
 * 3) "Behind the door when the anoraks were being handed out"
 * 4) Question about whether a decimal fraction is singular or plural at WP:MOS
 * 5) Secretaries
 * 6) Indo-European loans in Hungarian
 * 7) Garrigue
 * 8) Gothic placenames

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 26


 * 1) Swedish pronunciation
 * 2) Simpsons in French, Marie Curie

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 27


 * 1) Chinese reading
 * 2) What-all
 * 3) Latin/Greek scholars please?
 * 4) 2-part Chinese question
 * 5) Latin prefix 'in'

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 28


 * 1) Arabic error?
 * 2) Maźitakǘ from Caucasus mountains
 * 3) Looking for deverbal "reversible" adjectives that can take "-able"
 * 4) English grammatical question
 * 5) "Doesn't" vs. "does not"
 * 6) Watt =Vatio

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 29


 * 1) "irreversible" word pairs
 * 2) German translation help
 * 3) Translation into Latin
 * 4) When the name is evident from the description
 * 5) Antonym of Populous?
 * 6) Flummery
 * 7) Possesive proper nouns in the genitive
 * 8) Hungarian pronunciation

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 30


 * 1) Another Chinese reading question
 * 2) Pursue of happiness
 * 3) Reason for the closing of vowels in cont.-Westgermanic
 * 4) Fluency
 * 5) Cut out paper dolls = insane?

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 31


 * 1) Pronunciation mergers in southern England
 * 2) VN name
 * 3) "Meanie Ferret"
 * 4) A regular favorite
 * 5) "Redundant" in UK English