Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2008

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 1


 * 1) how to say various romantic things in Latin
 * 2) Cause célèbre
 * 3) It's not its', it's its...
 * 4) Crisis of confidence regarding a sentence involving "had" and "have"

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 2


 * 1) Japanese change of address postcard
 * 2) Secret Code
 * 3) Per aspera ad confusion
 * 4) Latin pronunciation
 * 5) Which is correct

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 3


 * 1) "Case" in ancient languages
 * 2) Nynorsk grammar
 * 3) Ashkenazic pronunciation in Israeli Hebrew?
 * 4) Colon_Township,_Michigan
 * 5) Other word
 * 6) D sounding like j and t sounding like tch
 * 7) Americans
 * 8) "Results" speak
 * 9) Filipino

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 4


 * 1) French translation
 * 2) learning french

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 5


 * 1) Scunthorpe
 * 2) Translation requested
 * 3) French instruction videos
 * 4) Corrupted Spanish word for misprinted/overstock clothing worn by impoverished citizens in Latin America?
 * 5) Translation assistance request

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 6


 * 1) Czech name
 * 2) Tenses in french

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 7


 * 1) Coger

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 8


 * 1) stairs
 * 2) Ancient Greek Question: Plural of Maimaktes
 * 3) What is the adjectival form of the word 'library'?
 * 4) Wording Problems
 * 5) an exemplary "role model"
 * 6) was there a memo diffused?
 * 7) Eventuate
 * 8) opposite of honorific
 * 9) Trying to find a certain punctuation mark

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 9


 * 1) Own the fact
 * 2) Verb

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 10


 * 1) Business letter with multiple signatures
 * 2) "ate" to rhyme with "wet" or "wait"?
 * 3) Hiro in 1671
 * 4) Harriot
 * 5) Issue (periodical and newspaper terminology)
 * 6) The recent wide adoption of incorrect pronunciation
 * 7) Ь/Ъ?
 * 8) Japanese

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 11


 * 1) Quenya
 * 2) Latin: Hierosylma est perditus. Or perdita?
 * 3) Translations
 * 4) avoiding a split infinitive
 * 5) Another Russian question
 * 6) Areas of study and capitalization
 * 7) Sentence structure; particples, gerunds... all that sort of stuff
 * 8) latinise this please?
 * 9) "nannettikafruit" / "nannetticafruit" (nanettikafruit)

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 12


 * 1) Can somebody translate this into Latin?
 * 2) Transliteration brick wall
 * 3) catarct suregry (phaco)
 * 4) Grammatical case – sample sentences?
 * 5) The origin of the use of the phrase "head to head" to indicate a contest
 * 6) frat
 * 7) French pen pal
 * 8) Comma after ellipsis in dialogue?
 * 9) Tamil and Chinese words
 * 10) Help with Deciphering... Something

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 13


 * 1) spanish and english
 * 2) Dolores del Rio
 * 3) Efficiency of languages
 * 4) prefix Mrs
 * 5) Should the pronunciation of "en-" prefix be "en" or "in"? And what is the correct pronunciation of words like "economics" and "essential"?
 * 6) date certain versus certain date
 * 7) Grammar question
 * 8) Periods (full stops) at the end of abbreviations

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 14


 * 1) Plural of prima ballerina/assoluta
 * 2) Dates
 * 3) Pad
 * 4) Unclear Latin translation
 * 5) Royal de Luxe French translation needed please
 * 6) "Steaming" rice

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 15


 * 1) How do you say "weeeeeee" in Latin?
 * 2) The surname Wałęsa without diacritics
 * 3) Latin
 * 4) Bridges
 * 5) British football (i.e. soccer) players with names that sound rude in foreign languages?

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 16


 * 1) corporomental
 * 2) Sow and Sew
 * 3) Is it right?
 * 4) Help me identify my vacation photos
 * 5) Capitalisation in Titles
 * 6) He is also a man used to having enormous clout.
 * 7) Indian caps

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 17


 * 1) Upside
 * 2) I am looking for a term that is used to describe the time wasting practice of pronouncing an acronym that takes longer to pronounce than if one simply pronounced the words that were initialized?
 * 3) IPA font

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 18


 * 1) Spoken Language Recordings?
 * 2) definite article with proper nound
 * 3) Link to Esperanto humour story
 * 4) words that should mean the opposite
 * 5) Metric language question

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 19


 * 1) Thinking in a second language
 * 2) pronunciation of R in old tupi language

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 20


 * 1) synthesis of the state of the art
 * 2) The State of the Union Address
 * 3) Grammar question regarding "help"
 * 4) Video Podcasts in ASL (American Sign Language)
 * 5) about the notice
 * 6) "Grammatically correct"
 * 7) Russian Decimals

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 21


 * 1) past tense of a verb
 * 2) What's this called?
 * 3) origin of GRAPHOPHONIC
 * 4) Nuclear food
 * 5) how can i search for english phrases on wiki
 * 6) Japanese honorific -kakka
 * 7) French pronouns
 * 8) Chockomut

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 22


 * 1) Latin? motto translation
 * 2) Latin Text
 * 3) ch in german

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 23


 * 1) Languarge / Plural Words

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 24


 * 1) The origins of the term: Minding your Ps and Qs?
 * 2) environment and ecosystem
 * 3) Poised or composed? which word to use, or how to build the sentence?
 * 4) Chinese question
 * 5) Allow/permit

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 25


 * 1) verbal adverb
 * 2) Question!
 * 3) A reference to heat
 * 4) Correct English?
 * 5) Pseudo-Chinese question
 * 6) Sentence Reconstruction
 * 7) Kgalema Motlanthe
 * 8) "Freshers Week" - noun as adjective vs. possessive 's
 * 9) Etymology of "Redeploy"

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 26


 * 1) Block in avionics?
 * 2) Guate/ Cuate/ Watey language?
 * 3) "Drinking Cool Aid"
 * 4) U.S. Constitutional over-punctuation
 * 5) Idiomatic?

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 27


 * 1) Spanish podcasts
 * 2) Son of a bitch
 * 3) arabic translations
 * 4) Meaning of Ingleby Barwick
 * 5) AP Stylebook?
 * 6) What type of logical argument is this?
 * 7) MLA citation for CJK names?

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 28


 * 1)  in Old English
 * 2) Synonym of required that starts with "A"
 * 3) Comparitives in other languages
 * 4) "What" instead of "that"
 * 5) normal/good/fine/etc.

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 29


 * 1) Netherlands
 * 2) Puzzle Clue
 * 3) Terminology
 * 4) Proto-indo-European spoken out loud.
 * 5) Hoi Polloi
 * 6) Death suffix
 * 7) Latin translation
 * 8) requesition letter  for an atm card
 * 9) Writing style forum
 * 10) Political term
 * 11) what age
 * 12) Request
 * 13) "Cheri" in English
 * 14) what is the meaning of the turkish word balim in english?
 * 15) whats your interpretation of this quote?

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 30


 * 1) "upwards of"
 * 2) Anyone know this Kanji?
 * 3) Name of a report?
 * 4) Italian translation
 * 5) Mama and papa
 * 6) USA v UK abbreviations
 * 7) "no no" ( babyish expression..)