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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 1

1. Kite runner
2. Translation of a photo
3. Japanese trailer video
4. Filetsteak
5. Japanese language help for BLP prod

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 2

1. French construction: "le (singular noun) est des plus (plural adjective)"
2. Homophonic Translation
3. Translate a single German sentence, please
4. Latin phrase translation

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 3

1. Illegitimate bastard
2. Earliest acronym?
3. Article Name - Chinese/Japanese Translation

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 4

1. Japanese translation
2. French: -ement vs. -ant endings
3. Chouli
4. Latin company motto
5. Archaic Dutch declension

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 5

1. comment dit-on...?
2. Hagrid's accent
3. Pronunciation of Lithuanian surname
4. Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents
5. Podesay
6. Gesta Herwardi or De Gestis Herwardi Saxonis
7. hunting animals to extinction.
8. Ancient writing in Britain
9. Caption translation for an image
10. Daft as a brush?

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 6

1. Double adjectives following "a pair of"
2. Bringing a language back from extinction
3. Etymology of Yugoslavia
4. Japanese
5. "oly gyenge jellem, hogy mindent elkölt, az utolsó fillérig"
6. Japanese help
7. "The couple is" or "the couple are"...

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 7

1. Every other odd item in a set: part of speech?
2. There's a bad pun in here ... somewhere ... I think ...
3. Behaviour
4. Translation from Japanese
5. Bravery vs courage
6. Help coming up with a short phrase for a company value?

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 8

1. Chinese coiffure or turban
2. Number of phonemes
3. "Peelers"
4. Belonging to someone else
5. Incomprehensible stew
6. Bad vs. Good words query
7. Seyran (name)
8. Whens

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 9

1. That … and which
2. Ya
3. :zh:官商勾結
4. 1. Curb or kerb?
5. Ovid
6. A Chinese ingredient
7. definition and usage of indmerence
8. Question about the Chinese character 必.
9. "The La Tène culture" or just "La Tène culture"?

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 10

1. Japanese honorifics and military language
2. Chinese words for grains
3. Looking for a quote, possibly by Sun Tzu
4. Syntax of "Doctor Livingston, I presume?"
5. Refining
6. Proper use of the English subjunctive? (example)
7. Polish name of state agency
8. Arabic name of the state agency

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 11

1. The origin and myth of the 'dude' language use

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 12

1. Pronunciation of "anti" and "semi"
2. Stefan Zweig

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 13

1. 𣲙
2. Fit or fitted in American english
3. English English
4. Nigerien/Nigerian pronunciation differences in American English
5. Chinese transcription and translation

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 14

1. Subjunctive in English
2. Use of "recently" to refer to a past time period
3. Do the following two sentences differ in meaning?
4. How to say "It's what he's been searching for." in French

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 15

1. Baidu
2. German translation
3. Politeness: Spanish, and more

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 16

1. Fraudsters in American English?
2. French uvular 'R'
3. Avatar Chinese characters meaning
4. French meaning
5. Come off it!
6. misc

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 17

1. Pronunciation of nonexistent words
2. Flink
3. A vs. E
4. Translatish
5. License template help needed in Spanish and Polish
6. "Read by anyone without"

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 18

1. Epenthetic /g/ in Spanish
2. Unclear Ending to Short Story
3. Translation
4. What is the word that means "parent of a deceased child or offspring"?
5. Spanish
6. Linguistics question
7. "Attorneys General"

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 19

1. Viewing the Gothic Language Wikipedia
2. Trying to figure out which Greek characters these are
3. Hebrew Book
4. Two questions
5. Space or no space after ( and before )
6. Romanian
7. Pinch/grain of salt
8. what's the name for this fallacy?
9. Chinese name

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 20

1. how doers austin powers sound to a britihs person?
2. Lao (Laosian) language
3. Jingle Palace
4. More chinese -translation
5. Grammatical query
6. Deragatory modifiers

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 21

1. Expression
2. By hook or by crook
3. Caïus
4. Brandy

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 22

1. Japanese translation
2. Is there a name for this syntax problem?
3. Icelandic /g+j/, /k+j/ across morpheme boundaries
4. Languistic Map
5. Saving Fingering from the English Language
6. A word of Greek

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 23

1. Article title
2. One year vacation
3. Spanish - native meaning of "Retales"

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 24

1. Who is good at anagrams
2. "The synthetic solid was ground and sieved through 100 mesh for subsequent use."
3. French pronunciation
4. "Du bist der Star"
5. Languages written without diacritics
6. Take a close one
7. Difference between the Adessive and Superessive case
8. Gelert

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 25

1. W
2. Azalai
3. Research on the language used on 3 stamps
4. Beethoven's "ingharese"
5. The other side of betrayal?
6. et al. and etc.
7. A term to call a child of a person who later enters into a new marriage with another
8. "Barbecue" in Hawaiian?
9. programming code
10. i can't place a word, please inform me what it is
11. flap

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 26

1. I'm all right, Jack
2. Creole Languages
3. Vol-au-vent
4. Is "dwarven" a proper adjective to use to describe someone with dwarfism?
5. Italian word
6. Why do dwarves have Scottish accents?

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 27

1. Negative:Negation::Positive:??
2. Encyclopaedia vs. Encyclopedia
3. "Usual suspects" - meaning, origin of the term, Swedish translation
4. Voices & morphosyntax
5. How do the french...

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 28

1. Simple past or pluperfect?
2. Alternation

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 29

1. What sound would you say cicadas make?
2. "Sire" vs. "Your Majesty"
3. girls
4. French the odd one out?

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 30

1. Chinese root
2. Japanese translation help needed
3. Is this an example of pathetic fallacy?
4. United States presidential election, 2012
5. Power is my mistress
6. Boodah?
7. Possessive reflexives

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 31

1. Learning English
2. Susan Howatch
3. Laissez-passer in English
4. "On pain of"
5. Speaking to a point
6. Motherboards and pigs
7. Senostoma is in French...
8. French country names
9. Origin of the word "Dutch"
10. Words for left and right in european languages
11. Cadence?
12. Spanish quirk