Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2010

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 1


 * 1) Meaning of Korean first name Isang
 * 2) Graudejus (surname)
 * 3) Only too happy
 * 4) Concrete Roofing
 * 5) Latin

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 2


 * 1) Auxiliary verbs
 * 2) How is Leeuwenhoek pronounced?
 * 3) Italian dentals
 * 4) was used to
 * 5) Irregular elative cases of Semitic/Qhàŕàbijhh?: ŕàkhmàn
 * 6) Singular or plural
 * 7) Another Italian question

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 3


 * 1) Dutch Het
 * 2) Leaving monkhood
 * 3) Slander and libel in online social contexts
 * 4) Language learning
 * 5) Deewa / Pashto
 * 6) differentiate Slavic languages

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 4


 * 1) Danish letter
 * 2) Help Desk Query
 * 3) How did British English and American English come to use different quotation marks?
 * 4) Two passages in Dutch
 * 5) Entymology of "-ish"
 * 6) Latin
 * 7) Compass directions
 * 8) Asterisk and interpretation

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 5


 * 1) French for 'Bless you'
 * 2) Jackeen?
 * 3) Bad poetry
 * 4) What does the word "udderly" mean?
 * 5) Should "the" be used with abbreviations such as NOAA
 * 6) Quick translation of Russian (from 1917)
 * 7) "I'm finished working with these pictures"
 * 8) Four-week month
 * 9) Asterisks
 * 10) Word

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 6


 * 1) French gerund
 * 2) The upcoming Hebrew year
 * 3) French Language learning
 * 4) communication
 * 5) give up, etc.
 * 6) Osmosis
 * 7) Why is "Jew boy" considered derogatory?
 * 8) "parashah" + "portion" etymology
 * 9) Looking for a Spanish word
 * 10) How go languages deal with template messages?
 * 11) What is a hyponym to another hyponym?
 * 12) Chinese phrase - what is a proper translation?

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 7


 * 1) You don't dip your bread in, you mean?
 * 2) Red (given name)
 * 3) Up and down, the verbs

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 8


 * 1) Japanese pronunciation
 * 2) Xury

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 9


 * 1) " Ridiculously hot"
 * 2) Existential Threat
 * 3) Everybody Hurts
 * 4) Bestemor
 * 5) What Is The CP

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 10


 * 1) Antonyms
 * 2) Language
 * 3)  Spanish phrase
 * 4) Languages in the USA. English in the world

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 11


 * 1) Linguistic Change
 * 2) parsing Chinese sentence
 * 3) Correction of translation
 * 4) Space Languages
 * 5) The Situation

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 12


 * 1) Reference Desk
 * 2) Tress, trix and tor
 * 3) Jupiter Elicius
 * 4) Learning
 * 5) Your vs You're
 * 6) What does this mean?
 * 7) Still extant vs extant

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 13


 * 1) Translation help
 * 2) Diacritics
 * 3) Grammatical gender in English as to states
 * 4) 1st place ‘from’ 2nd place, 'from' 3rd
 * 5) Is this a word?
 * 6) Seduce
 * 7) Limited number of words
 * 8) Chinese girls named Fenny

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 14


 * 1) "knowledgeable of a certain field"
 * 2) Academic Exams
 * 3) Apostrophe confusion

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 15


 * 1) French idiom
 * 2) Emma Zunz - mistranslation?
 * 3) Since recently
 * 4) word for decorative arrangement...
 * 5) Coins that are 1/10 of dollar
 * 6) Is there or has there ever been a language that used a phonetic alphabet?

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 16


 * 1) At what point does a metaphor become an established additional meaning of a word?
 * 2) Mandarin Chinese
 * 3) Temporal Adjectives
 * 4) Latin?
 * 5) German word for the soft inner part of a bread loaf
 * 6) Rap "izzle" language
 * 7) Ham sandwich
 * 8) Time and (time) again

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 17


 * 1) Which is correct (plural/singular).
 * 2) Treatment of initial r/n in North Korea
 * 3) Talk like a pirate day
 * 4) Nepali text
 * 5) Usage of "intuitive"
 * 6) Origin and meaning of "deep sneakers"

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 18


 * 1) Phonetic equipment
 * 2) Films with American accents
 * 3) "Hometown"
 * 4) Homofuerst

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 19


 * 1) How do you pronounce "Hu Tieu My Tho" in Vietnamese?
 * 2) Oldest Language
 * 3) Plural number of “tetrapylon”
 * 4) Need help with some Japanese words.
 * 5) 风玲 and 凤玲
 * 6) How to call someone and relation therebetween
 * 7) There is a home in New Orleans...
 * 8) Clave
 * 9) Man
 * 10) Friend

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 20


 * 1) Old English
 * 2) Website Summary
 * 3) Latin translation request
 * 4) Translation in French
 * 5) Spanish pronunciation

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 21


 * 1) American/British English differences? BBC UK's use of "with"...
 * 2) Latin help
 * 3) Close/tight-knit communities
 * 4) Passive voice

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 22


 * 1) "Troop:" plural until killed, then 1 equals a troop?
 * 2) "Indeed there is"
 * 3) Origins of the American accent
 * 4) Philo-
 * 5) Castellano
 * 6) Romeo and Juliet

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 23


 * 1) Correct preposition for "claims made"?
 * 2) Etymology, First attestation of "Lord Love a Duck"
 * 3) Slang and adding words
 * 4) Picture Assonance

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 24


 * 1) French

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 25


 * 1) Machine translation
 * 2) Variety of English taught in China
 * 3) English language in Quebec
 * 4) French Food
 * 5) Lithuanian?
 * 6) "Luke"

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 26


 * 1) Flapping in English - Throwback or innovation?
 * 2) Independent Clause
 * 3) Grammar tenses
 * 4) Xhosa clicks, places of articulation
 * 5) Size of vocabulary required to understand TV?
 * 6) "He asked who was the murderer", is this legitimate in an indirect speech (whether formal or informal)?
 * 7) Totally incorrect translation.
 * 8) Zina Zaflow

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 27


 * 1) To comma or not to comma
 * 2) Latin translation
 * 3) pronouncing Eugen
 * 4) A few questions about accents...
 * 5) is refutal a word?

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 28


 * 1) Off a cliff or Over the cliff
 * 2) Etymology of "Rani"
 * 3) British overseas territories
 * 4) Russian journal title
 * 5) Minimalist languages
 * 6) Death(s)
 * 7) Proper word for a type of analog switch
 * 8) French word for "machines"
 * 9) Downstream [of] the filters
 * 10) Russian words used in english
 * 11) grammatical correction
 * 12) Rules for c and g
 * 13) Ćevapčići
 * 14) "How Town"

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 29


 * 1) Surely this was two errors in one sentence?
 * 2) French politesse
 * 3) Meaning of multiple 1s
 * 4) ghost
 * 5) What does "bum bandit" mean in American English?
 * 6) Was LaFawnduh a real name given before Napoleon Dynamite came out?
 * 7) Translation request from English to Arabic

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 30


 * 1) When one thing is many
 * 2) Broke/broken/break down
 * 3) What does "No Wangers" mean?
 * 4) Can one say "He is broad" (i.e. fat, or has broad shoulders, and likewise)?