Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2017

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 1


 * 1) Spanish b/v, English b/p, Mandarin b/p, Korean b/p

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 2


 * 1) "A few" ... singular or plural?
 * 2) Chinese translations of computer keys
 * 3) "Died in a hospital" – American English?

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 3


 * 1) Hi is there any good site for grammar check for articles
 * 2) Cheburashka
 * 3) Cambridge spelling
 * 4) Female version of Praitōr (Greek)

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 4


 * 1) Tutunick
 * 2) Chinese names for Malaysian cities

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 5


 * 1) How exactly do you read this?
 * 2) German von etw leben

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 6


 * 1) Greek era
 * 2) Phi or chi; which letter came first??

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 7


 * 1) Using the word "of"
 * 2) peruna
 * 3) He/she/it endings of verbs

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 8


 * 1) Use of " and dots

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 9


 * 1) Do young children even have a native language if they are enrolled in an immersion program?

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 10


 * 1) Why do foreign language learners sound like robots?
 * 2) Catalan's President?
 * 3) Are there things more alliterative than the Pretty Princess and Penelope Pony Power Hour?

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 11


 * 1) Vowel length in "Samoa"

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 13


 * 1) Is there a difference between a speech impediment and an idiosyncratic pronunciation of a normal native speaker?

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 14


 * 1) Voiced retroflex fricative/Voiced retroflex sibilant
 * 2) Appropriate translation for Regierungsbaurat
 * 3) Horizontal transmission to a great degree
 * 4) Does language immersion still work when one is surrounded by cows?

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 15


 * 1) Greek
 * 2) Cebuano Wikipedia
 * 3) German "auf etwas kommen"
 * 4) Duck test
 * 5) How to get started on IPA?

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 17


 * 1) How come la caballera doesn't exist as a noun?

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 18


 * 1) TV commercial for drug Anoro featuring Fleetwood Mac's song "Go Your Own Way"
 * 2) US Dollar Currency

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 19


 * 1) Not profanity

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 20


 * 1) Ph
 * 2) Is there a term to describe the change in perspective between languages?
 * 3) Commons Category:Paintings by name

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 21


 * 1) Please translate the following German to English.
 * 2) Omission of the definite article
 * 3) German Africa Prize

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 22


 * 1) Are native Arabic speakers required to also know Quranic Arabic?
 * 2) meaning of "great straits"?
 * 3) Use of "that"
 * 4) German inversion = English inversion?
 * 5) Al-Tabari
 * 6) Special term for opposite vertexes of a cube
 * 7) 2014 National Security Agency illegal seizure

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 23


 * 1) Operatic soprano

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 24


 * 1) Cuneiform
 * 2) Turris Babel ædificationis adhortatio linguis sex
 * 3) Verb forms for people using singular "they" pronoun

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 25


 * 1) puit (fr)
 * 2) Beard to the washing
 * 3) Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nubia
 * 4) Vowel length

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 26


 * 1) How did men become exclusively male?

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 27


 * 1) Pronunciation of place names by soldiers

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 28


 * 1) p.9
 * 2) Are all high-level languages translated into the same Machine Language?

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 29


 * 1) Apostrophe usage
 * 2) how do you say "been" if you don't use participles for the perfect?
 * 3) trouble pronouncing "one" like QE2 does

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 30


 * 1) Consistent Historical spelling of Greek Letters?

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 31


 * 1) Scandinavian language ID
 * 2) a sound change of palatal > velar?
 * 3) How can a non-native parent make a dead or constructed language the native language of his child?