Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2012

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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 1

1. Ludwig Renn a.k.a. "Poveda"
2. the vs. an

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 2

1. dual articles
2. the meaning of "iactati aequore toto...
3. Castilian and Latin

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 3

1. Latin wikipedia
2. Chinese word for "crisis"
3. French translation
4. Arabic help
5. Personal distress
6. bat for the other team

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 4

1. Thinking in one language while speaking another
2. Medieval Latin inscription from Belgium

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 5

1. Right royal
2. What is meant by this remark in the Japanese wikipedia article :ja:壇ノ浦の戦い?
3. Kanji
4. Vagueness of a language

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 7

1. Japanese numerals
2. Spanish -> English for hortelana, a herb
3. Help finding Spelling & Meaning of a Word
4. anyone vs everyone
5. French negative imperative

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 8

1. Written/typed kanji
2. "Duchess of Cambridge hoax call nurse"
3. Why doesn’t Classical Latin have descendants?
4. Japanese place names in Korea
5. Arabic and Swahili
6. Oppa Gangnam Style

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 9

1. Minamoto no Yoshitsune = Yoshitsune von Minamoto
2. Middle nickname
3. English nicknames replacing r with z

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 10

1. Word for people in their twenties
2. Le Roi des Etoiles poem in French - problem with 2 lines and a translation

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 11

1. Spanish......te quiero, te amo
2. Gravity of Love
3. Robert Gist
4. Spanish help

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 12

1. Snow name?
2. @Twitter
3. "On" television/"in" a movie?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 13

1. Origin of fag = cigarette?
2. GRAMMAR
3. WP pages receiving redirects from their opposites
4. Reading Arabic numerals in Arabic

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 14

1. Which one was the Kanji name for Eda no Genzō--江田源蔵or江田源三?

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 15

1. Deponent verbs
2. The "O'" in names

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 16

1. audio
2. Es:grupera
3. Bromyard
4. Is Carne related to Karma?
5. The Netherlands are or is?
6. Dash and percent

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 17

1. Verb from Ptolemy's name?
2. Romanian 1st person pl. imperative
3. Spanish Heraldry

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 18

1. Japanese
2. Chinese reading
3. Japanese pronunciation
4. Translating Japanese Article
5. Naming of the Wikipedias

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 19

1. Place–manner–time in English - how strict?
2. Noun-izing words, and how to refer to them
3. Linguistics term
4. rhotic

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 20

1. Riistomaasiirtäjä
2. China–North Korea border
3. Runners-up
4. Don't let's go

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 21

1. Difference between Spanish language in Europe and America

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 22

1. Hangul and more needed for politician article
2. Bandung

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 23

1. Not literal translation

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 24

1. Christine Moore
2. Japanese word "no"
3. kung fu
4. another name for peephole lenses

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 25

1. Shimmy or shinny down a rope

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 26

1. Adverbial pronouns
2. Pronunciation of sixth in the United Kingdom
3. Long French Translation

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 27

1. Cotton Squareing
2. Arabic translation of a Maan news article
3. "Tutta" is the southern equivalent of "Bubba" meaning "sister."

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 28

1. Phonotactics of the word boundaries.

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 29

1. Stephen Harper
2. "Idiots can't catch colds."
3. need Middle English translation
4. Katakana ヲ (Japanese)

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 30

1. beany

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 December 31

1. So
2. What does "Jewish minx" mean?