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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 1

1. Air Force's new slogan
2. More subject / verb
3. Japanese audio lessons
4. Synonym of worldly
5. Academic equivalent of pimp

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 2

1. Interpretation of a symbol:くぁ
2. Definitions of the word "interesting"
3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 2#consuelos<.2Fs> consuegros|consuelos consuegros]]
4. is there a hungarian version of this reference desk
5. Use of Latin across the Roman Empire
6. Grammar correct?
7. Use of the signal sic
8. NAEYC
9. Narratives, use of pronouns: I or me?

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 3

1. Pronunciation: IPA for the word "anole"
2. Corrected colloquialisms: "proof in the pudding"
3. Robert Bly poem
4. Sounds: dental, alveolar, and postalveolar
5. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 3#Rounded lips during {{iPA.7C.5Bʃ.5D}} and {{iPA.7C.5Bʒ.5D}}|Rounded lips during [ʃ] and [ʒ]]]
6. Knowledge of communication skills in discussions

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 4

1. Prepositions at the end of a sentence
2. How to say "bad-mouthing" in a less informal way?
3. going on grammatically without any punctuation

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 5

1. Most heavily punctuated sentence
2. Saffron and "bastard saffron"
3. Identifying poem and poet: a spider and a watch
4. Deünhille
5. Latin phrase: "in cauda venenum"
6. Correct wording: film credits under an assumed name
7. These versus those
8. Word choice: using big impressive words
9. How do you say mouse in Japanese?
10. Punctuation: use of the slash in complex cases
11. Hyphenation in complex cases
12. "Needs cleaned"

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 6

1. Say what?!?: use of multiple punctuation marks
2. How are sound changes found?
3. Brief translation of Japanese, please.
4. Authors "writing as"
5. Some grammar: singular or plural in continuing a sentence?
6. things that are impossible to talk about?

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 7

1. Aboriginal languages in Northern Ontario?
2. meaning of "works"
3. languages : how to say the F word in German, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian
4. The proper treatment of screws
5. Translation of Japanese and Chinese Wikipedia articles on Zen
6. From unknown to certain

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 8

1. Sweden-Finland engineering connection: bridge, or tunnel?
2. Meaning and language origins of a word: vouzon
3. What makes something dramatic?
4. Is there a specific name for a town celebrating its 190th anniversary?
5. Bob O'Billovich

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 9

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 9

1. A few terms: passive subjectivism, taboo, shifting temporal frame
2. shaft in spanish
3. phrase structure
4. More than disapproval
5. England and Wales
6. Words ending "LT"
7. Pronunciation of extinct languages
8. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_language#Writing] from [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/marathi.htm Marathi language, alphabet and pronunciation]

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 10

1. English-Arabic Translation
2. Question: What is the correct pronunciation of "kilometre"?
3. On [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_script#Classical_Yi Classical Yi]
4. English: plural of "curriculum"?
5. Is this for real or a programmer's joke.
6. Software(s): what is the correct plural?

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 11

1. Mistranslation from Japanese
2. Margarine, Margaret and soft/hard g
3. Arabic
4. Please correct my text about an excerpt from book about apartheid!
5. Russian translation
6. Orchestra's relation to conductor
7. Rules of grammar
8. An ambitious person

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 12

1. Japanese honorifics
2. Whoever or whomever?
3. bouquet, or bouguet?
4. Success/downfall: one word meaning both?
5. Latin term for a specific legal concept
6. Google as a verb: ever intransitive?
7. Please assist: pay rates for transcribing audio?
8. Lebanese (Arabic) translation
9. Punctuation in headings: a full stop at the end?
10. Asking the impossible

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 13

1. Chinese phrasing for how a character is composed?
2. Interwiki checking request at Legal code (municipal)
3. Etymology of Sweater
4. Marines: must it always be capitalized?
5. Badge in Spanish
6. Either/or
7. search engines as concordancers, or free online ones
8. Orthographic usage: centimeter and centimetre

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 14

1. How to pronounce: Leah Buechley?
2. If Australian books have their spelling and grammar changed...?
3. Chinese annal and article
4. English usage: "Me either" v. "Me neither"
5. English: How do I speak good grammar?
6. Love: how to say "I love you" in Italian?
7. Here we go again ... singular versus plural

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 15

1. Pain interjections
2. What is 'Lacanians' and 'Freudian' ?
3. alternate for 'fuck'
4. One Word for "repressing sexuality"?

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 16

1. Colour perception: what differences can language make?
2. Strength/weakness: one word
3. Is Uruguay unique?
4. As a means _____

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 17

1. whats mulling mean?
2. Oriental or Asian?
3. strain in spanish
4. US vs USA
5. Japanese Sound Symbolism
6. How to say in Japanese...

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 18

1. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Generic country names
3. Numbers written out?

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 19

1. Attribution of movie quotes
2. Gänsefüßchen
3. K ever pronounced in a word including kn?

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 20

1. Translation from Hebrew, please
2. "The Govs Must Be Horny"
3. Japanese pronunciation of Chinese names
4. Czech declensions
5. None satisfy vs. None satisfies
6. Meitei Mayek script
7. mexican currency
8. Any silent letters in Latin?
9. Moran Cho/Margaret Cho in Korean and romanized korean

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 21

1. Need assistance with a Japanese sentence
2. Hunmin Jeongeum
3. subject changes within a complex English sentence

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 22

1. Pronounciation: Pfizer
2. Original Languages
3. female actor
4. Lit or lighted?
5. Took VS Taken

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 23

1. how do you get a job as a court translator
2. Mary Yamashiro Otani in Japanese
3. Has anyone noticed
4. what is an offensive way to refer to a woman that sexualizes her?
5. Analysis: Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate
6. God Willing?

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 24

1. What language is this?
2. JC-1 H1 History: Realpolitik? Kremlin? Manichean?
3. waterboarding
4. Registered Trademark usage
5. Textbook for X bar Theory

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 25

1. beads
2. Universal Translator
3. Name of profession
4. Ambiguity he/him
5. Hebrew font formatting problem in FAC candidate Tel Aviv
6. Holocaust
7. Enunciated T
8. Is it proper to use ð in English?

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 26

1. Grammatical mood
2. what's the adverb for mediocre?
3. Cotton in shirts: 100, 140, 180
4. Pronounciation of Über- as in überkid, übergeek etc.
5. Spelling used in New Orleans
6. What's the word!!
7. Translation help
8. Moderately-sized Chinese translation.
9. order of compounds in ethnicity
10. Doing blood work

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 27

1. Offensive word for black kid
2. Translating a Power Rangers song to Spanish
3. Expression of surprise
4. Mandarin
5. Articles before brackets

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 28

1. make money
2. Urgent comma help
3. Proper demonym for New Zealand
4. Unusual name
5. Columbite
6. English compound words and hyphens
7. Greek word
8. Business name change
9. Transitive procrastination
10. Harakat
11. riddle mania
12. warden in spanish
13. Spaetzle
14. Dialect and accent domination

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 29

1. Pronunciation of Vortigern
2. Translation from Russian
3. Plural of "die"
4. rebbetzin

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 30

1. Spanish translation
2. Spanish translation
3. Farsi translation of English 'witch'
4. gayelle
5. economics term
6. cross worn on the body
7. 'out of 10' vs. 'of out 10'
8. Possessives

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 31

1. Fred makes a stirling effort
2. Definition
3. Gerunds
4. Correct punctuation
5. "Was" or "were"?