Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2009

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 1


 * 1) "were quit"
 * 2) "[Color] [Article of Clothing]" as a euphemism for cuckoldry
 * 3) Is this Hindi Translation correct?
 * 4) German translations
 * 5) Definition of expression
 * 6) Awoken or awakened?
 * 7) Rhode Island
 * 8) Official UN languages
 * 9) Gender in German
 * 10) PAST PRESENT FUTURE (English)
 * 11) Fricatives - mixed voicing
 * 12) Roman naming

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 2


 * 1) English accent
 * 2) Gerunds and pronouns: "his being" or "him being"
 * 3) Banana
 * 4) Is it ever right to use sensitive as a noun?
 * 5) Title of the Russian civl servant of the lowest order

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 3


 * 1) Russian proofreader needed
 * 2) Chinese Dialect (?)

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 4


 * 1) Initial confusion
 * 2) Can the verb "to be" be followed by a gerund?
 * 3) Word for giving up of some rights upon joining the military

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 5


 * 1) Latin names

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 6


 * 1) "Sports events" or "Sporting events"
 * 2) Lewis Carroll
 * 3) kyujitai again
 * 4) Agamid toes
 * 5) Rhymes

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 7


 * 1) What language is this in?
 * 2) Difference between agglutinative and isolating languages
 * 3) Languages of Austria-Hungary
 * 4) Need English translation of Latin (?) paragraph
 * 5) Golf Course Humor
 * 6) Possessive form
 * 7) Rules on emphasizing punctuation
 * 8) origin of word
 * 9) Latin words please
 * 10) Translation help please

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 8


 * 1) Chinese sentence translation assistance please.
 * 2) Brackets
 * 3) women, woven
 * 4) german names, meanings
 * 5) Grammar check
 * 6) Cordycepin pronounciation
 * 7) How do I form the female equivalents of each of these French nouns?

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 9


 * 1) Chinese translation, please
 * 2) Meaning of the surname "Seay"
 * 3) Latin translations of The Name of the Rose passages?
 * 4) American English dictionary?
 * 5) Ghoti
 * 6) Faintly ridiculous
 * 7) Obscure Latin Maxim

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 10


 * 1) Radium
 * 2) A Slovak Lanugage Standard That Had Been Confsicated By Hungarians, Shelved In A Hungarian Library Due To Hungarian Censorship Out Of Magyarization And Polish Dialects That Were Once Languages That Ar
 * 3) a rather basic English grammar question
 * 4) Swedish equivalent of the name Harriet
 * 5) What does this ambiguous statement mean?
 * 6) reading
 * 7) A question for Americans of the Western Seaboard (including Western Alaska):
 * 8) "solid, unbroken tone"
 * 9) Muimota

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 11


 * 1) Shot
 * 2) Eyethangyew
 * 3) is there a term for the phenomenon where -
 * 4) discastery
 * 5) Kai Shu Chinese Font

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 12


 * 1) Some surnames in reverse order
 * 2) Kinship term for relation between one's sets of grandparents
 * 3) I plan to study and stay in Japan for several years.
 * 4) 松 = ?
 * 5) Korean spicy sauce - tenjang

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 13


 * 1) Aibrushed vs. Photoshopped
 * 2) Crossword puzzler
 * 3) "marriage" -- "fatherhood" -- "has a career"
 * 4) "be said"
 * 5) Manchuria
 * 6) Multilingual Wikipedias

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 14


 * 1) Diminutives of Russian given names
 * 2) Information on a- prefixed to verbs
 * 3) Kanji question: Is it upside down?

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 15


 * 1) Ruby
 * 2) Classics
 * 3) Japanese translation
 * 4) Chinese translation desired, please
 * 5) Bi-Bi Pedagogical Method Historical Origins
 * 6) Pronunciation

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 16


 * 1) Any other persons
 * 2) Name For The Phenomenon Where.....?
 * 3) T & D sound
 * 4) IPA request
 * 5) This is some wording in a poster, I have a question on which is correct or the better to use

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 17


 * 1) Hell -Underworld
 * 2) Origin of phrase
 * 3) Stress in German Compound Words
 * 4) When does a romanisation become a word?
 * 5) "Taking part in a nature trail"?

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 18


 * 1) I lost my grandmother's dictionary
 * 2) a manor in Central Park
 * 3) Not sher

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 19


 * 1) Standards
 * 2) Wrestling Fora
 * 3) Assassination
 * 4) Letters of marque
 * 5) Ç
 * 6) Unusual palatalized consonants

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 20


 * 1) Translations
 * 2) Rhetorical device involving repetition for contrast
 * 3) Programmin Logic of this: 1 232 34543 232 1

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 21


 * 1) "The old rale"
 * 2) Letters which could be merged without creating homographs
 * 3) Latin Translation

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 22


 * 1) Referring to countries/cities as "she"
 * 2) IPA Transcription
 * 3) 13-letter words

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 23


 * 1) Eye color, FR>EN/HE
 * 2) Ee, I could murder a cup o' tea
 * 3) Never written
 * 4) Latin definition
 * 5) NY times - is it right?
 * 6) Where vs. in which
 * 7) Double interpretation of localities
 * 8) German T-shirt
 * 9) Melbourne > Melburnian

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 24


 * 1) Leghorn
 * 2) need a word
 * 3) Contract law terminology
 * 4) Simplified Chinese phrase translation help
 * 5) Florentia→Fiorenza→Firenze
 * 6) British biscuits
 * 7) Yet another German question
 * 8) In the news

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 25


 * 1) Ukrainian Slaves
 * 2) Adjectival Lexeme Of "Lorraine"

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 26


 * 1) Are there  native English speakers who pronounce "kings" (etc.) - like: kiŋgs / kiŋgz /, i.e. pronouncing the g?
 * 2) What is this term?

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 27


 * 1) Bukovinan or Bukovinian
 * 2) Taihenni arigatoo!
 * 3) What would be the Latin translation of "Straight out of Compton"?

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 28


 * 1) Norwegian Language Question
 * 2) Spelling and culture

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 29


 * 1) Crash Dive
 * 2) Difference
 * 3) mirror under car
 * 4) Genitive case for possessive pronouns in Russian
 * 5) Yiddish

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 30


 * 1) Grammar Help
 * 2) Latin phrase: "He loves the wine and the dog"