Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2012

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 1


 * 1) Hindi pronunciation
 * 2) w/ vs. ⊆
 * 3) il cane Flike
 * 4) Arabic roots s-y-d and sh-r-f
 * 5) Are English creoles syllable-timed?
 * 6) Chinese help - 古希天子始皇绎臣

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 2


 * 1) Needing some Kannadian help

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 3


 * 1) Getting oneself sliced
 * 2) Danish social dancing pleasantries
 * 3) Tickle me pink

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 4


 * 1) What does "sasta wala" mean?
 * 2) "Change that number on your dial" meaning
 * 3) Unrecognisable

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 5


 * 1) Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe
 * 2) Framed poster in a synagogue

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 6


 * 1) Hindi/Sanskrit pronunciation
 * 2) γγ γκ γξ γχ
 * Stop clusters
 * 1) Person through relative clauses
 * 2) Metamorphoses
 * 3) Payment B/G
 * 4) Latter part/second half of century
 * 5) "Boost your computer's start-up time" ?
 * 6) German pronunciation help

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 7


 * 1) Recording session style guide?
 * 2) American English vs. British English
 * 3) Nice meeting you or what?

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 8


 * 1) Difficult time with this bit of Brazilian Portuguese administrative language
 * 2) Alveolar trill
 * 3) Mitt Romney: should the "tt" be phonetically transcribed as a glottal stop?

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 9


 * 1) Alumni of Nobel Laureates
 * 2) (Venezuelan) Spanish translation - "mujanches"
 * 3) garnish

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 10


 * 1) Does Japanese text name plant?
 * 2) "Since biblical times" - literal or metaphorical?
 * 3) Can these words be used interchangeably? (churchgoer, church member, parishioner, etc.)

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 11


 * 1) Nothing is impossible OR impossible is nothing
 * 2) Help fixing an apparent translation from Italian
 * 3) Russian help
 * 4) Chinese sources -> English
 * 5) "Nicholas" with an "M"
 * 6) Horse/Hors/Pferd/Equus

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 12


 * 1) Which one is the headquarters of Air China (Chinese help)?
 * 2) -tr

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 13


 * 1) African languages
 * 2) Pacific Island languages
 * 3) Do not fold, spindle or mutilate
 * 4) Rhyddfrydol
 * 5) Arabic help

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= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 30


 * 1) Are there computers that exist in West Africa with a keyboard with any African languages?
 * 2) Why 12:00 noon  is 12 p.m.?
 * 3) Arabic question
 * 4) Pronunciation of Northumbria without h-sound
 * 5) Osteodontokeratic
 * 6) Getting used to S‐O‐V.

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 October 31


 * 1) French translation
 * 2) Chinese help
 * 3) Chinese character - 厯 + 氵 radical
 * 4) Simple questions with "if"
 * 5) "mark for"
 * 6) The best ever question