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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 1

1. Central Asia and Azerbaijani languages Turkish and Russian
2. Is "lost" in Latin "perditus"?
3. "Danish pasting"
4. Need your help translating the following document
5. linguistics
6. Vexillonerdologically (not to mention philatelonumismatovexillonerdologically)

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 2

1. What's the go with hyphens and dashes?
2. 的 and spanish de
3. Tongue
4. Terms for deer
5. Basque Dialectical Differences

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 3

1. The use of the verb "drink" to automatically and assumably mean "drink alcohol [without specifying alcohol]"
2. Radicals vs phonetic components
3. Alvarado
4. English names that sound like prostitutes' names

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 4

1. Translation
2. Japanese translation help
3. Japanese 'r'
4. As-clauses in English
5. Small-c vs. capital C
6. When you were young

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 5

1. How does the American accent make a distinction between "can't take" and "can take" (the stress being on "can")?
2. Welsh and cornish languages

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 6

1. Latin translation ("Let the just proceed forth")
2. Rhyming phrases
3. Biannual as a noun for a half-yearly journal?
4. learning help
5. The development of Proto-Germanic -eu- in Dutch/Middle Low German
6. English genitive case of 'Chancellor'
7. Arabic: Attijariwafa Bank
8. Steve McLaren

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 7

1. Arabic transcription

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 8

1. Interpreting lyrics

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 9

1. Pi/pie
2. Name of fallacy/rhetorical technique
3. Fake middle English
4. Similarity between spanish and english?

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 10

1. Using the verb dominate
2. OPTIMIZATION
3. British place name Slurvian pronunciations
4. Russian word translation
5. Hello "SNOTRAG", goodbye "PORNOMAG"
6. War of Succession

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 11

1. OE El-ge --> Ely
2. Are You Grammatically Correct Tonight?
3. logo21.gif
4. Sentences that mean the same thing and sound similar in unrelated languages
5. Japanese pun in Final Fantasy VI, can someone explain it?

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 12

1. Wright or wrong?
2. ASCII Media Works
3. English pun on faithful
4. Eastern Arabic numerals
5. is 'liable to' standard English?

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 13

1. Intervocalic alveolar flapping in "Importance"
2. Romanian
3. Chinese
4. Rainforest layers in Chinese
5. What is the correct english form?
6. Antonym for "Envy"
7. Quran translation in some Europe language

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 14

1. Anti-semitic
2. In which month was Giorgio Baldizzone born?
3. Please explain this joke
4. Korean help

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 15

1. It would be remiss of me
2. A few lines in English, describing an old man. Help me improve my english and my vocabulary ?

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 16

1. Maybe
2. Source translation needed from French
3. Extra H
4. Khasi

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 17

1. Original sounds of ancient languages
2. Strange Limerick
3. Meaning
4. Three syllable three letter words
5. "A Few Words"
6. English
7. MLA Quotations

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 19

1. î and â in Romanian—what happens if there's a c or g about?
2. Japanese
3. The Port Authority's Exact Words
4. "Both...and..." or "...so..."?
5. What is the longest English word that can in theory be written by repeatedly pressing the same key on a phone with an E.161 keyboard?
6. The words "Sodomy" and "Fornication" and "Adultery" -- fancy words for anal/oral sex, premarital sex, and extramarital sex?
7. English vowels

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 20

1. Talking products and shopping stores
2. Pronunciation
3. Greek, German, English
4. at (the) Technische Universität Berlin
5. Japanese screenshot text to English

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 21

1. /eɪ/ and /ɛ/
2. Apostrophes and soft signs

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 22

1. the 17th century equivalent of 'decor'
2. Italian help
3. Pwned vs. Iwned
4. Spelling of Ngũgĩ from Gikuyu

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 23

1. Chinese help
2. Killing me softly with his definition
3. Use of "without" to mean outside. Is it now outdated?
4. (The) Name Foundation Center for/of International Production Systems
5. Just a point of view about "American" categorized people =)
6. who run the world
7. singular or plural? Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit is/are?
8. Chinese reading help

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 24

1. Kishmish
2. Sentence language subject to two meanings?
3. Japanese help
4. life vs lives

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 25

1. Spanish subjunctive question
2. I don't have to vs I must not
3. Smash the granny
4. Yes I do

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 26

1. Groundhog Day
2. Polish to English questions
3. what do we use the prague school for?
4. Spanish help: translating "cool smiles"

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 27

1. English to Japanese questions
2. I should be getting wikipedia in English, I'm in the United States and always got it in English, but now I get it in Chinese it only happens with Firefox browser
3. John Boehner
4. Parenthetical German puns
5. "Accountred"
6. US or UK?
7. prə'naʊnt.sɪŋ on the cover of Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 28

1. French translation
2. unintended consequences of a "rape" comment

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 29

1. Fictive judge in Burmese "fables": Princess Learned-in-the-Law

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 30

1. meaning of expression "fur and wode"
2. Trawsfynydd
3. Flames, shoes and brakes
4. Dear [I don't know your first name]?

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 31

1. "Of course"
2. Hebrew