Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2012

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 1


 * 1) A "displaced state"
 * 2) Chinese help

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 2


 * 1) Cheers??

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 3


 * 1) translation from Moroccan Arabic
 * 2) Transcription

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 4


 * 1) The &lt;a person's name>s of the world
 * 2) Pronunciation of a Danish name
 * 3) Arabic to English translation of the word "Aghrāḍ"
 * 4) How long would it take for someone to learn the french language with no high school degree?
 * 5) Word for a person who does not understand speech?

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 5


 * 1) Dr King writings
 * 2) Pinyin
 * 3) More Chinese questions
 * 4) Timeout
 * 5) Einarssson?

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 6


 * 1) Help with Possible Arabic, Persian, or Dari speaking user
 * 2) No starch
 * 3) Nooki experiment viral video

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 7


 * 1) Trying to write correct english
 * 2) Old art document history
 * 3) 30000 traps
 * 4) Additional Chinese requests: Warehouse building

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 8


 * 1) does my spelling show my aging?
 * 2) "branched out into"
 * 3) A little technical assistance for an author ?
 * 4) Need vowels for Hebrew word

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 9


 * 1) Famous English Quotations in Other Languages
 * 2) To what base uses...
 * 3) Irish Gaelic userbox
 * 4) Writing systems
 * 5) Peggy Lee's trilled German ells
 * 6) Understanding Shakespears wording

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 10


 * 1) Hindi v/w
 * 2) Russian translation
 * 3) language  problem

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 11


 * 1) Gulliver's Travels in Hindi
 * 2) "Peruse"

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 12


 * 1) Hardball
 * 2) "People of the Book" in Pakistan
 * 3) Making verbs out of nouns
 * 4) Sounds of Language series by Bill Martin

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 13


 * 1) Half past o'clock

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 14


 * 1) card reader the electronic device vs. card reader, a person

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 16


 * 1) What does this girl's Chinese tattoo mean?
 * 2) "V P Lyubit Vas"? ("Vlad Putin Loves You"?)
 * 3) What do you call it when you get a BIG fish?
 * 4) Paper News

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 17


 * 1) Pato

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 18


 * 1) Chinese bronze or seal script question
 * 2) "table-doty breakfast"
 * 3) Handwritten lowercase ligatures

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 19


 * 1) English numerals pronunciation
 * 2) Locke: "suspected of jargon in others"?
 * 3) Luxembourgish translation needed
 * 4) Tommy Wiseau - where's he from?

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 20


 * 1) Est-ce que c'est vraiment dur d'être aimé par les cons? (The C-Word)
 * 2) Croatian language
 * 3) Center of Attraction
 * 4) Arabic help
 * 5) is straits plural or singular
 * 6) "The moon is out to trust"

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 21


 * 1) Spanish "diskos" bread
 * 2) Everything and nothing
 * 3) Mali online newspaper (in French) - is it an RS?
 * 4) Troshing the Clossics in the Clossroom
 * 5) Help with Korean Lyrics

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 22


 * 1) Quick translation from Norwegian
 * 2) Problem with Wikipedia fonts
 * 3) Arabic help with two images

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 23


 * 1) What does the name Aelita mean?
 * 2) Arabic and French help
 * 3) Translation from Arabic
 * 4) Double contractions
 * 5) How good is the "UK English versus American English" analogy for Austrian German versus German German?

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 24


 * 1) Adaptation of the Ancient place names into Turkish
 * 2) Sanskrit question
 * 3) been/bin homophony and Alan Partridge
 * 4) Simplified Chinese help
 * 5) to smell = ?
 * 6) Rhyme with orange
 * 7) Obsolete words
 * 8) Chinese name for Betty Bossi?
 * 9) Rewriting Elizabeth II's early life

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 25


 * 1) Paragraph structure, and topic sentences, used on Wikipedia.
 * 2) Turkish help: File:HomelessParis 7032101.jpg
 * 3) "Thank you for verbing" in German
 * 4) Pronunciation of the French surname "Serville"
 * 5) Untranslated Russian term of early Sovet era
 * 6) "xh" in Liégeois placenames
 * 7) countable or non countable

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 26


 * 1) Minor or major?
 * 2) "-do-" = ditto?
 * 3) Nachgeordneter Zweig
 * 4) Is the Guardian Scandinavian?

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 27


 * 1) A picturesque equivalent of  "job displacing", please ?.
 * 2) Pronunciation of 'Haigh'
 * 3) Spelling siz(e)ably

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 28


 * 1) "Hear undernead dis laitl stean": Early Middle English and Robin Hood
 * 2) teaching terry 
 * 3) "too meta"

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 29


 * 1) Of gaols, jails and prisons
 * 2) Beware of Greeks bearing eggs at sunrise?
 * 3) Cocoa/cacao
 * 4) Help to improve the phrase
 * 5) It is hardly for me to pronounce upon qualities I may or may not possess.
 * 6) A technical term for finding words inside other words?

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 30


 * 1) How is this translation in Spanish?
 * 2) are my sentences correct?
 * 3) Where is this quote from