Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2013

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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 1

1. Adjective and Noun word lists.
2. Google Translate
3. ap in welsh names
4. Natural and Unnatural
5. Semicolon and coordinating conjunction combined?

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 2

1. Checking Spanish translation of transcript of audio

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 3

1. What kind of fish is an o?
2. Way of applying drug?
3. What tense "would" this be

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 4

1. It's a good deal more nothing than neck
2. Pronouns & Genders
3. Trochee or not?
4. Another phrase meaning "oriental".

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 5

1. A question about readability

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 6

1. Using the correct words

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 7

1. Century
2. "-ba" in Swedish

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 8

1. The/that moment when ...
2. Sanskrit anyone?
3. Conditional Simple
4. "gotten" in British English
5. Shall I not?

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 9

1. Commons closed captioning template
2. "a few/a little" origin
3. Traditional Chinese

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 10

1. Are Russian белый (white) and Latin bellus (beautiful) cognates?
2. ß capitalization
3. Half-palatalization?
4. Arab references
5. Language learning and explicit vocabulary instruction

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 11

1. Arabic help: File:Medersa Odienne.JPG
2. Pronouns with short memories
3. Spielberg
4. How to find the "subject "in these sentences
5. Do children of lesbian couples receive patronymic names?
6. "His or her" → "their" ?
7. Saswitha
8. Grammar

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 12

1. Chinese help: Musings of the Ape Immortal
2. French, Portuguese, and German help
3. Last newsreel of Die Deutsche Wochenschau - translate?
4. German Language
5. North (America)

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 13

1. Aristotle translation
2. knock-knock-knocking
3. Birendra Nath Dutta in Assamese
4. Eat like a bird
5. Half swim
6. language learning and hours of study
7. Adjectives
8. Bwanos Aires
9. What does this Chinese scroll say?

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 14

1. Working language(s) of the Vatican?
2. Origin of the surname Carkeet
3. Opposite of economic materialism
4. Spanish pronunciation of Bergoglio

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 15

1. Kanji variants
2. Pronunciation of Hagia Sophia
3. Does it make sense to ask why?
4. Would this be acceptable in scientific writing?
5. "En" in French

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 16

1. Interesting ambiguity in "so happy that"
2. Accent
3. Arabic help
4. Chilton pronunciation
5. Nonsensical Arabic sentence

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 17

1. Antonym for "drown"
2. Pronunciation of unusual or foreign words
3. MEANING OF WORDS

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 18

1. Deciphering cursive handwriting: File:Steamship Bienville on-board restaurant menu (April 7, 1861).jpg
2. Tall and lanky
3. Nguyen
4. "Passed master"
5. "Sisu" meaning "child"

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 19

1. 要領よく / 要領のよさ (Japanese)
2. The language most heavily influenced by Scandinavian.
3. Olymp as short form of olympus
4. Hebrew: functions of the dagesh
5. Pronunciation of Alois Hitler?

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 20

1. hit a person in the jaw and make his front teeth rattle
2. French term for "air raid shelter" in World War II?
3. Reverse TEFL
4. Etymolgy of Stow

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 21

1. Opposite of "on behalf of"?
2. "Robin Redbreast"
3. Greek constitution translation
4. Dutch government corporations

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 22

1. Would this be considered plagiarism?
2. Male counterpart of "grande dame"
3. meanings related to "recruitment"
4. "The Crak'd Jordan"
5. "You and I" plus one or more others?
6. Standard statement
7. Lack of official federal language in the US

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 23

1. Korean to English translation
2. Dogfights / Catfights regarding fighters and UAVs
3. Etymology of Eau
4. French for "they're being extorted"
5. Finnish pronunciation
6. How do you spell [serətɪpɪti] (which means "timing" or something like that)?

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 24

1. how to rewrite the sentences using the principles of effective writing?
2. What is this chinese foodstuff?
3. Technical term for helmet crest

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 25

1. Humanities -> Societies ?
2. Feminae ad ludos semper veniunt
3. Decipher Japanese writing

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 26

1. Looking for a word
2. me or I

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 27

1. Cyrillic letter?

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 28

1. Legal Latin term
2. I am this and am that
3. Coniuncturalist
4. Münchener or Münchner?

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 29

1. Out of print books
2. Soledad Pastorutti

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 30

1. doubt

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 31

1. Name of Japanese house style
2. πολύκερων
3. List of uncommon words?