Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2016

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 1


 * 1) What do you call a kind of saying such as the one below?

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 2


 * 1) Russian translation
 * 2) Methuselah's name

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 3


 * 1) Dual, trial, and quadral words

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 5


 * 1) Der Stand und das Ständchen

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 6


 * 1) March
 * 2) This Chinese script
 * 3) Searching literature about how to learn better a foreign language
 * 4) Be you [placeholder]
 * 5) Official languages of Israel

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 7


 * 1) Third

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 8


 * 1) Victorian literature

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 9


 * 1) Is "Alternate" a Proper Alternative to "Alternative"?
 * 2) Foo-shaped hole in my heart
 * 3) exercise about, exercise on?

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 11


 * 1) Urdu, Arabic and Farsi
 * 2) English Language: WHOM and WERE

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 13


 * 1) Why wasn't "photographic memory" called "color cinematographic memory" when color cinema appeared in 1934?

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 16


 * 1) Biomes and language phyla

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 17


 * 1) Antonym of conjunction "unless"

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 18


 * 1) Reprieve
 * 2) Coloring vowels

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 19


 * 1) what is the current authority for creation of new words in english language
 * 2) Sorabe script
 * 3) Sumerian language, where and when was last use, and in what form, written or conceivably spoken?

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 20


 * 1) a question-phrase

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 21


 * 1) Trying to decipher a couple of words from a BBC podcast.

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 22


 * 1) Can someone find this original Galileo quotation?
 * 2) Terms for eighths
 * 3) Mutual intelligibility between Igbo dialects

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 24


 * 1) Fall 2015
 * 2) Usage of "public viewing" in English
 * 3) The analogy of testicles to balls, or to other objects, in various languages.

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 25


 * 1) chirurgery vs chirugery

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 27


 * 1) thank you in German
 * 2) Origin of the name "Unthank"
 * 3) C10 languages

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 28


 * 1) -ing
 * 2) There Is No Portal For Translation Studies - On Friday, 28 October, 2016 -
 * 3) Na'vi translation
 * 4) English level in Spain

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 30


 * 1) Pronunciation information missing from Wikipedia entries...