Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2014

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 2


 * 1) Ummm...why is October called October?
 * 2) To bollock someone
 * 3) How can Chinese people understand Japaneses Kanji?
 * 4) Multiple adjectival morphemes
 * 5) Arguendo
 * 6) Famous phrases in fictional languages sought
 * 7) Check this sentence

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 3


 * 1) Question about British apartment numbering
 * 2) Capitalization of "van" as part of surname
 * 3) Clint Eastwood Sudden Impact movie in Japanese
 * 4) Any Romance languages that historically shifted Latin's "f" and/or "b" to "h" or something like that?

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 4


 * 1) almost

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 5


 * 1) Sanskrit help
 * 2) One
 * 3) language
 * 4) Scientific Name Origins
 * 5) List By Phonemes (or amount of phonemes)
 * 6) Unicode for Chinese
 * 7) St Someone vs St. Someone
 * 8) Ashansu Translation

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 6


 * 1) What is the Japanese character in this image?
 * 2) Inthronization or enthronement?
 * 3) жить и не умереть/умирать

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 7


 * 1) "in the name of public order"
 * 2) Correctness in English grammar?
 * 3) Second to the last, third to the last, fourth to the last...
 * 4) Is there a Wheelock's English?

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 8


 * 1) §§, MSS, ff, etc. etc.
 * 2) Cousin's Son
 * 3) passive voice correct use

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 9


 * 1) The difference between physics and physiology - etymologically
 * 2) Influence of Cantonese
 * 3) Is Hutterite German called Low German?

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 10


 * 1) Could we know when or how the convert of the meaning of the Greek word "physis" be done?
 * 2) collecting songs with nonsense syllables
 * 3) Modern French words derived from Old French nominative?

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 11


 * 1) English s and French s
 * 2) Question about Dutch transliteration - Paul Haarhuis
 * 3) Transfer of question

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 12


 * 1) Gruppenflexion
 * 2) German translation needed urgently

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 13


 * 1) What do you say to someone as a polite greeting at 4:00 AM in the morning, before the sunrise, and the person hasn't had a night's sleep?
 * 2) Is there a single English word in common use (not a coinage) that means female gangster or mobster?
 * 3) What does this mean in Chinese, and how do I pronounce it?
 * 4) Specific terms for males instead of generic terms
 * 5) Is there a modal adverb which indicates a probability of at least 50%?

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 14


 * 1) Is Afrikaans useful to learn?
 * 2) Using "extends" for "is extended"
 * 3) Did the English language have a writing system or script prior to the Latin alphabet?

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 15


 * 1) American knowledge of Shakespeare
 * 2) Meaning of to roger and to dodger in the phrase roger dodger?
 * 3) Will to power

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 17


 * 1) Is there something rude about "Yandrisovitz"?
 * 2) Plural Posessive of phrases of compound nouns with head first?
 * 3) Very Complicated Family

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 18


 * 1) 'Full stop' Confusion
 * 2) 'Numeric' letter(s) conversion to 'Alphabetic' words
 * 3) 'Participle' Confusion
 * 4) 12th century Arabic constellation
 * 5) Contemporary assessment of Rabindranath Tagore by western media and literary critics

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 19


 * 1) Line breaks in dates
 * 2) Italian language question
 * 3) "Transliteration"
 * 4) What is the origin of the name Sierra Leone?
 * 5) Word for "internationally socioeconomic"
 * 6) IPA symbol
 * 7) New old words

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 20


 * 1) How do you pronounce "propanol" and "propanal"?
 * 2) What is the correct word?  Ensemble.
 * 3) To be or not to be.....

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 21


 * 1) Etymology of Ebola
 * 2) Opposite of 'holistic'
 * 3) resources for IPA?
 * 4) City centre
 * 5) Chinese language question

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 22


 * 1) How to pronounce the word Wayland in American English
 * 2) Short form of newspaper name
 * 3) what does "inline" and "online" mean?
 * 4) Another Relative Question
 * 5) The dreaded lurgi seems to have mutated

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 23


 * 1) Word Query
 * 2) Sentence filling
 * 3) Indo-European neuter
 * 4) Corporate jargon

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 24


 * 1) V & W

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 25


 * 1) Why are "who" and "where" swapped in German?
 * 2) French p

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 26


 * 1) Besides in English, where does PIE *w survive as [w] in any modern Indo-European language?
 * 2) Meaning of "wilderness variation"
 * 3) Indian names with "shit"

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 27


 * 1) To comma or not to comma
 * 2) Strange Translation (presumably from Hausa)
 * 3) Word Query 2
 * 4) Sentence correction
 * 5) Huzur
 * 6) '...'
 * 7) Soviet Rally Cry

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 28


 * 1) près des matières incandescentes
 * 2) Request for transcription of Korean text

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 29


 * 1) ‘
 * 2) Postnominal determiner in English
 * 3) Volunteers required
 * 4) Alveolar ridge vs. alveolar process

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 30


 * 1) Chinese (?) translation request
 * 2) Any mistakes in the Korean in this image?
 * 3) ø versus œ (ö) in Swedish IPA

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 31


 * 1) Sentence understanding problem