Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2007

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 1


 * 1) Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 1
 * 2) Buffalo Stance
 * 3) Swiss German Expression?
 * 4) consultation on stress on word Chinese

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 2


 * 1) word-to-morpheme ratio
 * 2) Help contacting a person whose web site is in Chinese
 * 3) "bildungsromane"
 * 4) Gemini by Michel Tournier
 * 5) ISO 639
 * 6) French Numbers

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 3


 * 1) T-V distinction in Kannada

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 4


 * 1) Word
 * 2) What words do you not capitalize in a header?
 * 3) Use of "None"
 * 4) Speaking English
 * 5) summary, precis..?
 * 6) Aclaratory note
 * 7) terminology
 * 8) french
 * 9) Translation (fr --> en) check

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 5


 * 1) Cast a Dispersion?
 * 2) Translation

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 6


 * 1) Need Help With Translation
 * 2) When should the hyphen be used, and when should it not be used?
 * 3) Help with foreign language links
 * 4) Spanish phrase
 * 5) words in other languages
 * 6) Growth of English acceptability of (Middle) English
 * 7) invitation question...
 * 8) Spanish "ya"

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 7


 * 1) A fast system to deplagirize text?
 * 2) Do native speakers of English understand following type of sentences easily?
 * 3) The Communist Party of China and the human soul
 * 4) Prepositions Preceding Surnames: A Collective Term and Their Alphabetisation
 * 5) It was a dark and stormy night
 * 6) Proper adjectives
 * 7) What does the English idiom game, set, and match mean?
 * 8) Double Dactyls
 * 9) Mean of "Macavity"
 * 10) I need to know what "apostel" is regarding certification of a birth certificate.
 * 11) Schedule conflicts!

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 8


 * 1) A Song that no one knows...
 * 2) obo
 * 3) German Help
 * 4) After research no clear answer: "What's the difference between Professor, Teacher, instructor?"
 * 5) Further/farther
 * 6) Spanish abuuu ;_;

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 9


 * 1) German manners
 * 2) English translation from Japanese
 * 3) oi kei
 * 4) Neologism?
 * 5) How to read Chloe?
 * 6) Portuguese
 * 7) grammar help
 * 8) A document in Slovenian or maybe Croatian
 * 9) Alphabets
 * 10) Confusion about in- and un-
 * 11) Translation of "trem-" in genus name Tremarctos

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 10


 * 1) Sense of Vertigo
 * 2) French corpus: verb frequency
 * 3) Britney Spears' or Britney Spears's
 * 4) Anybody know any Korean?
 * 5) Spanish (?) translation
 * 6) Please help with semantics
 * 7) More help with semantics
 * 8) straight As or straight A's?
 * 9) European English?

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 11


 * 1) Some questions on learning Italian
 * 2) Grammar
 * 3) Capito
 * 4) The English Word "That"
 * 5) Names of Famous People

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 12


 * 1) Middle Chinese
 * 2) Tibetan spelling of "karma"
 * 3) english language
 * 4) How to pronounce (for use in spoken wiki project) death cap mushroom article

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 13


 * 1) Word meaning "impoverished aristocrat"
 * 2) gender names
 * 3) Lost letters
 * 4) What Word Describes This Idea?
 * 5) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Time Line

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 14


 * 1) PTSA
 * 2) segue not in oed
 * 3) Questions in simple past tense
 * 4) Y

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 15


 * 1) a linguistic question
 * 2) Harry Potter
 * 3) Content/Contented
 * 4) RSVP as a verb
 * 5) No bones
 * 6) Translation
 * 7) Glottal stop
 * 8) definition and use  of historical versus historic
 * 9) How do you pronounce "zusammen" and "entgegen"?

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 16


 * 1) New page in Arabic
 * 2) Best Word Selection
 * 3) Italics
 * 4) Mi'kmaq and Acadian French toponymy
 * 5) Grammar 2
 * 6) If you wish / If you wish so
 * 7) Long German word for "jeep"
 * 8) Reduplicative slang

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 17


 * 1) Korean translation
 * 2) What is the Correct Pronoun to Use Here?
 * 3) Need Chinese reference or advice
 * 4) Word which rhymes with "fight" and "write"
 * 5) Scaglia orazio aci S. Antonio

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 18


 * 1) stabilization of automatic translation
 * 2) U.S. counties - what is the difference between established and organized
 * 3) Verreisen vs. reisen
 * 4) Grammar
 * 5) Just now
 * 6) Quotation marks
 * 7) German exams

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 19


 * 1) When referring to groups...
 * 2) Best Word Choice?
 * 3) Idiom: Blood on Blood
 * 4) The e-word
 * 5) Latin translation of  "Intrum Justitia"
 * 6) whistle down the wind: etymology

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 20


 * 1) Punctuation
 * 2) What is the IPA for Joe Sakic ?
 * 3) how's your father
 * 4) Choose Between Two Words
 * 5) Use of into/in to
 * 6) i need your answers...
 * 7) Japanese Wikipedia

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 21


 * 1) Elementary language Homework
 * 2) IPA TTS
 * 3) Audio pronunciation
 * 4) to sport
 * 5) Let yourself be tempted by ...
 * 6) Grammar and nationalities
 * 7) Why Italian pronounces "pizza" as "pete-zha" not "pee-sha"?
 * 8) French translation

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 22


 * 1) Johnny condom
 * 2) Cottage cheese
 * 3) The origin of the word embryo

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 23


 * 1) Latin Word for Quote
 * 2) Samples of Middle Norwegian
 * 3) Svangaskarð pronunciation
 * 4) I am "humbled"
 * 5) A question from es.wikipedia regarding the femeninity of boats

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 24


 * 1) origin of English idiomatic phrase
 * 2) Spick-and-span (& spick and span; & spick)
 * 3) "Ziehen"
 * 4) I have an idea you're pulling our leg. - Xn4
 * 5) Effect of words in brackets on sentence
 * 6) Vampire
 * 7) Khmer language
 * 8) Diacritics in Slovenian names
 * 9) Loss of Gender in English Between Old and Modern English
 * 10) Help with name pronunciation, Peter Geach

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 25


 * 1) Help with Latin quotation
 * 2) Idioms & Proverbs
 * 3) Definition of the word "native"
 * 4) Percentage of English words derived from Latin or Romance languages

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 26


 * 1) Wizard of Oz lyrics
 * 2) translation into Latin
 * 3) "How do you like my paragraph?"
 * 4) Sew what's new?

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 27


 * 1) Are there translation sites where Japanese words are in English letter words instead of symbols?
 * 2) sentence making
 * 3) What is the Proper Term for This?
 * 4) language arts
 * 5) Dutch to English translation for improvement of Wikipedia article
 * 6) what is the phrase "hairs on a bobbin"
 * 7) Miquelon; Basque, Spanish, both or neither?
 * 8) What does this mean?
 * 9) The Scots leid

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 28


 * 1) Shortest sentence
 * 2) how do you pronouce charis?
 * 3) accent advice please
 * 4) Englishman's home
 * 5) IPA for Australian name Brabham
 * 6) Classical Greek font
 * 7) Russian

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 29


 * 1) latin poem
 * 2) Learning to read
 * 3) Kiss Me
 * 4) Japanese
 * 5) Symbol for the word Lively in Aramic,Arabic, or Korean

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 30


 * 1) (In)transitive verbs
 * 2) aspects of Mary
 * 3) Grammar
 * 4) Meaning of a phrase
 * 5) Latinized Dutch names
 * 6) Grammar