Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2017

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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 1

1. How do you say "Happy New Year!" in your ancestral or second tongue(s)?
2. Traffic police baton

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 2

1. Translations from German

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 4

1. the meaning of "play a straight hand"
2. written Spanish
3. Translate mistakes in ads

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 5

1. qdm?
2. Did early modern Europeans speak Latin?

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 6

1. Seeking Pronunciation Respelling Converter
2. "To prevail sth"?
3. Please make a transcript of the video for 2017 Chicago torture incident

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 7

1. Nambara, or Nanbara
2. "A barracks" (?)

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 8

1. When did "gay" gain a meaning of "lame" or "stupid"?
2. to allow sb sth
3. Cymorth cyfieithu / Aide à traduction / Translation assistance.
4. "to happen with sth"

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 9

1. Wall calendars
2. Swedish translation advice:Tideräkning/Kronologi
3. Can loanwords have accents?
4. Labelling amounts in currencies - feedback wanted
5. What the deuce? (origin of phrase)
6. What does this mean in Chinese?

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 10

1. Is there a difference between a "human" and a "person"?
2. Creature in Middle English
3. Swedish translation advice: Stridsvagnen/Stridsvagn/Stridsvagnarna

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 11

1. Register to [sth]
2. Cynophobia from culture

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 12

1. Teaching your son Klingon
2. Why is there an apartment brand called "Doosan We've the Zenith"?
3. Birket, in English or French
4. Equivalent to German "einordnen"

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 13

1. American English to British English differences
2. Referring to volcanos

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 14

1. Learner's dictionary
2. Gothika
3. Whose mom was it?

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 15

1. Try and help me here
2. "Wie geht dieses Spiel?"

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 16

1. "Entitled"

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 17

1. English of the GUI

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 18

1. Some pages from China
2. Native writers
3. Is Nemesis (Roth novel) part of a series?
4. "Infiltration" in different versions of English

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 19

1. Topic sentences, in reality
2. What to say cousin in Tamil?

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 20

1. El burro delante para que no se espante. Syntax taboos

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 21

1. Origin of Sheraton

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 22

1. Kamalieva & Djumaliev
2. How to pronounce "Juergen Bruegl"?

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 23

1. Non-human animals executed by means of a rope

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 25

1. "Wie geht dieses Spiel?" (II)
2. Picture of the Day
3. past tense of 'to eat'

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 26

1. Are there contemporary journals written in Latin?

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 27

1. Usage of "gotten" in Australia
2. "Plow" vs "plough" in historical British English

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 29

1. whatever besets you/whatever you are beset by

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 30

1. rerealione

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 January 31

1. sg in Italian
2. What is this letter?