Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2009

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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 1

1. What does German media call Conficker
2. I'm looking for a book, but I don't recall the title or Author.

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 2

1. Decode this phrase from Francis Ormond
2. Hi-Hi and Tak-Tak (thankyou) > Icelandic
3. Using 을/를 in spoken Korean

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 3

1. period after first name?
2. abbreviation "a.i."
3. Wallpaper idiom
4. Abbreviations for first names
5. Division or Department

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 4

1. When John met his uncle he took off his hat

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 5

1. What does this sentence mean?
2. Native American Personal Naming Conventions
3. Copyright status of the Swadesh list

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 6

1. A subordinated clause treated as a complete sentence
2. Weird message from EU wiki? (from WP:HD)
3. sub-national divisions

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 7

1. dinner was held
2. Ekervally
3. What does "Druda" mean?
4. spanish translation
5. Plural of the noun "gas"
6. Czech people and English
7. Changes between positive and negative verb forms

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 8

1. 'Faux' For French "False", "True" English For French
2. How does Timon Screech pronounce his name?
3. Is it "winner" or "winners" if a sports team has won a competition?

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 9

1. Affrikaans
2. objective, neutral phrasing for the worst things a country is able to do (q removed)
3. Last name, first name
4. Is it Italian? What does it mean?
5. French Translations
6. Wack (hip-hop slang)
7. How did Chinese in the old time transcribe their Chinese characters which can't be spelled?

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 10

1. Overwhelmed vs. Underwhelmed
2. need translation "je suis médusé"

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 11

1. Ukrainian town name
2. Is there a god of elections?
3. Dita Saxova - the movie
4. Melvin Mouron Belli
5. Name of Type of Joke
6. Trains

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 12

1. spanish translation
2. Conservative bias
3. Which word is correct (on or of)? Or are both correct (on and of)?
4. language
5. Translation needed from French: "lices"
6. Overuseismism? Ismism?
7. spanish translation (2)

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 13

1. Created language
2. Christ is risen
3. French translations: 2
4. Seeking children's book for beginner learner of Italian
5. Can someone covert this to english? I nicked it from the image page as it seemed more appropriate here
6. Need to write down Hindi script

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 14

1. Word or words that covers a particular kind of qualitative judgment
2. Real word?
3. Swedish: "kort"
4. Boutros Boutros-Ghali?
5. Spelling: swordsmistress
6. Letters of a word rearranged to make two words

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 15

1. A word meaning misplaced nationalism
2. Navy SEALs
3. conjugation of the english verb come in the phrase "which must shortly come to pass"
4. Who knows the most number of languages?
5. I need help understanding two lines in an article.
6. Gerund v. verbal noun
7. Pronunciation of "MRSA"
8. "Arschgeburt"

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 16

1. Need greek translation
2. Russian pronunciation
3. Computer in French
4. 郵便書留
5. Linguistic Board
6. Going to the bathroom
7. arabic translation

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 17

1. Is There A Word For Stories That Are Different But Have A Simlier Thing?
2. Beanz meanz Heinz
3. Say what?
4. IPA transcription of centralised Scottish short I?
5. Choosing e-mail subject lines
6. Choosing section headings on Wikipedia talk pages and on Wikipedia Reference Desk pages

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 18

1. Graduating
2. Korean Question
3. Request for help with Latin translation
4. My sister's hobby (in Chinese)
5. spanish translation for Q-tip
6. clear and deep understanding the problem?

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 19

1. IPA of my name
2. French translations : 3
3. Origins of the word coon (as a racial slur)

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 20

1. Plural of French Nouns
2. A Good Pun?
3. The name Jiverly
4. Oh you
5. What is the word for that feeling in teeth..

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 21

1. Santa Claus
2. ESL "essential English phrases list"
3. Speaking vs. understanding
4. Use of parenthesis in quotes like "[W]hen blah blah..."
5. Birds and animals
6. German translation help needed
7. Playing on/at/? a Steinway piano
8. Longest word using specific letters
9. The A/Effect of A on B?
10. Korean word, quite notorious for beingn abstract/hard to translate
11. funny sentences from an English language column

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 22

1. Italian translation
2. English to Arabic
3. Programmatical
4. What does the word sativus mean?
5. Quick translation of German phrase

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 24

1. fish vs fishes
2. French Translations: 4
3. Name
4. Latin phrase
5. PC
6. US
7. Name for party noisemakers
8. Name vs. username
9. Gender in cables, pipes, etc.
10. latin question on accusative and infinitive

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 25

1. Dying of "aspiration"
2. French Translations: 5
3. How do you call this?
4. Brother, where art thou?
5. Leave, never to return
6. Touting one's own works (figurative expression)
7. Poetry and pop music
8. Japanese vocabulary
9. "shear deformation"

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 26

1. How do you write with a southern accent from the 1900 in Alabama?
2. strange different forms of the passive in English
3. Interesting sentence
4. French Translations: 6
5. United Kingdom
6. Do you speak Chinese? How come - both: "I want" and "I think" - are translated as 我想 ?
7. American English problems (for me)
8. Frong
9. Commission or order a building?
10. Initials at the end of names
11. 5 vowels for operatic Italian?

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 27

1. We want wikipedia pages in Bengali
2. Fit for neither man nor beast
3. Hebrew + English
4. Compound words in UK English and US English

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 28

1. Redundant
2. Mandarin Pronunciation of "@"
3. Plural or singular?
4. German or Chinese translation
5. a female mouse is a doe?
6. Naming a baby boy
7. CUm
8. Word for a certain type of addiction
9. Grammatical gender - useless?
10. to watch/see/hear the concert?

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 29

1. Master Of Ceremonies or Master of Ceremony
2. The genitive
3. Estonian Given Names
4. Born of / Born from
5. Two spaces after a full stop
6. French slang
7. Incomparable crack
8. Bomb

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 30

1. Could someone explain this poem to me?
2. Being a Nazi