Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2011

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 1


 * 1) Seeing the forest for the trees
 * 2) Citation parameters
 * 3) Big meal?
 * 4) NAKAMA
 * 5) Yes, they'll?
 * 6) American English
 * 7) Metaphysics
 * 8) Learning the Proto-Indo-European language

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 2


 * 1) Question about term
 * 2) Hauling ass
 * 3) Translation of 18th-century Danish text
 * 4) Multilingual list of Indian kin terms
 * 5) Arguement

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 3


 * 1) "If I was" vs. "If I were"

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 4


 * 1) French pronunciation
 * 2) TEOTWAWKI
 * 3) "why" as an -- interjection, is that really it?
 * 4) Trying to recall an idiom
 * 5) Just how rude is the Arabic phrase 'imshi'?

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 5


 * 1) Compering?
 * 2) Ubuntu

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 6


 * 1) "Front-loaded" antonym?
 * 2) Tense in reported speech
 * 3) For Latin speakers, can you find examples of "conscius sibi"?
 * 4) American English (2)
 * 5) German advanced learner's dictionary?
 * 6) Az anyanyelv tisztelete
 * 7) Polish: Etymology of the word lęk

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 7


 * 1) Initialising Mac, Mc and O' surnames
 * 2) mah nishtanah
 * 3) Translation of pietatis causa
 * 4) Translation for Spanish text
 * 5) Longest place name in South America
 * 6) Shetland language or dialect

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 8


 * 1) Delas/delas Alas?
 * 2) Medieval manuscript terminology
 * 3) "Sentenced to jail time"

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 9


 * 1) Essentially. When is it correct to use it?
 * 2) Custom bespoke - Redundant?
 * 3) What are these words called?

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 10


 * 1) Punjabi
 * 2) Is "onto" one word
 * 3) Language extinction - a recent phenomenon?

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 11


 * 1) Yup'ik nasals
 * 2) "personifactory"?
 * 3) Norwegian translation

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 12


 * 1) Meanings from word boundary ambiguity
 * 2) Of
 * 3) Where are you at?
 * 4) "Innovative"
 * 5) Crêpe
 * 6) Nice/niece/knees
 * 7) Phonemic/phonetic language
 * 8) Spanish and Latin etymology

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 13


 * 1) Poker dots
 * 2) Avestan letter

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 14


 * 1) "as jealous as a spaniard" - simile
 * 2) Absolutely

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 15


 * 1) Present Perfect Tense
 * 2) Latin: Pro bono publico
 * 3) Continuity problem in His Dark Materials series (specifically, Once Upon a Time in the North?

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 16


 * 1) Happy in the UK
 * 2) Learning a new language
 * 3) Of "something" v Possessive Case

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 17


 * 1) Une famille bourgeoise républicaine
 * 2) French question
 * 3) Root origination
 * 4) Predicate Adjectives in Russian and other slavic languages with zero copula
 * 5) Help needed with Chinese map
 * 6) Translation into Russian
 * 7) How do I say Jasmine Rice in German?
 * 8) question to ask yourself to determine if you're in a dream
 * 9) Building name (Korean)

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 18


 * 1) Explaining when to use in, at, on and into to someone whose native language is Semitic
 * 2) Crossword puzzle help
 * 3) Whose English is most "authentic"?
 * 4) English names for forms of baby motion

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 19


 * 1) Cascella
 * 2) currently pursuing her PhD (etc.) at/ from a certain university?
 * 3) Oojimy?
 * 4) What language would be practical?
 * 5) Is kennen lernen treated as if it were one word?

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 20


 * 1) Translation wanted over at the Science desk
 * 2) Glossary of terms

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 21


 * 1) Translating Ionesco
 * 2) Etymology of patent leather
 * 3) Regional accents of Northern Ireland
 * 4) BBC's at it again
 * 5) asterisks for multiplication

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 22


 * 1) Freshman, sophmore, junior, senior
 * 2) Studying English
 * 3) Hungarian Translation
 * 4) "carpet" vs. "carpets"

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 23


 * 1) Dash it all man, what's a Canuck to do?
 * 2) Grammer (sic)
 * 3) Deeply popular

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 24


 * 1) India in Himachali
 * 2) passive to be?
 * 3) Wrong and right on languages

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 25


 * 1) Medical term: Appropriate morpheme for "interstitial fluid"?
 * 2) English Term...requires citations?
 * 3) One's "calling" ?
 * 4) places one has visited, in German

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 26


 * 1) Name for a Welsh speaker?
 * 2) how not to end on a preposition

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 27


 * 1) Rhotic-related stuff, 'r's where they shouldn't be
 * 2) zebra line as a media jargon?
 * 3) Bizness/Bijiness in Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase
 * 4) "Bugger off"
 * 5) Wood trimmer (person)
 * 6) Name translation

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 28


 * 1) Misspelling one word in Urdu
 * 2) Temperatures in Japanese

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 29


 * 1) translation needed
 * 2) Question about Chinese reading
 * 3) “Glitze Glatze Glotze”
 * 4) Russian: troika and perestroika

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 30


 * 1) to discharge a responsibility
 * 2) IPA for Paul Robeson
 * 3) Japanese: McD toy translation