Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2017

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 1


 * 1) How is Chinese writing taught to complete foreigners?
 * 2) Jin Kazama
 * 3) Scientists who study meteors
 * 4) Jacques-Philippe Cornut

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 4


 * 1) Distinction between b and p
 * 2) Chinese watching soap opera with Chinese subtitles?

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 5


 * 1) Lexemuel Ray Hesler

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 6


 * 1) Word search
 * 2) "would actually contain"  versus  "actually used to contain"
 * 3) Consonant doubling in regional pronunciation of Latin
 * 4) Where in North America is this the accent?

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 7


 * 1) Expressions of degree

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 8


 * 1) Can lo que es be used at the beginning of a sentence?

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 9


 * 1) Loanwords vs codeswitching
 * 2) "Making up words"
 * 3) Pronunciation of 'integral'

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 10


 * 1) Ken-ya, or Keen-ya?

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 11


 * 1) Red October pep talk
 * 2) Latin mono-syllabic words ending in -x
 * 3) Do verbs normally have more inflexions than nouns or other categories?
 * 4) Fill out the blank space: X depends on Y, if and only if Y____ _____ X.

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 12


 * 1) Term used for masculine concrete objects similar to la que es?
 * 2) Translation from German needed

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 13


 * 1) Icelandic ð

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 14


 * 1) French negation.
 * 2) How to make an actual double negative in Spanish?
 * 3) Storybook vs anthology vs short story

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 15


 * 1) Definite article before words as words

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 16


 * 1) unfunded mandate
 * 2) Question about French-language source on animated short project
 * 3) Would Americans be los gringos or los mestizos?

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 19


 * 1) Digits separator in Canadian French
 * 2) Etymology of Georgian Nekresi
 * 3) When can the adjective go before the noun in Spanish?

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 20


 * 1) "it is unusual for a toponym to be shorter than its source"
 * 2) wrought usage in a sentence

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 22


 * 1) How distant do languages have to be to be considered bi, tri or multilingual?
 * 2) In what circumstances, does one use él, ella, or ello as it?
 * 3) How would William the Conqueror have pronounced “William”?
 * 4) Use of "dotard" by Kim Jong-Un

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 23


 * 1) Word usage
 * 2) Public housing in the United Kingdom
 * 3) Pronunciation of coyote

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 24


 * 1) Learning English Pronunciation

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 25


 * 1) Dutch
 * 2) Oldest living language
 * 3) Brammer

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 26


 * 1) Did anyone ever make an abridged dictionary with an "easy cutoff"?

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 28


 * 1) Do mention it!
 * 2) Protesting against

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 29


 * 1) Why does Cantonese have a written form, but Shanghainese, Wuhanese, and Hokkien do not?
 * 2) Word for old parents