Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2018

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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 1

1. Thin air
2. Newfound halliday

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 2

1. Japanese

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 3

1. Define these sentence structures

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 4

1. What determines when TM is used in superscript?
2. Use of former, retired in DAB pages
3. Bluebottle

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 5

1. Grammar

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 6

1. H G Wells' accent
2. Risk it for a biscuit

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 9

1. can anyone explain this mandarin sentence?

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 11

1. 文, 语, 言, 话

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 12

1. A list of cognates in romance languages
2. Translation requests (Latin)

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 13

1. Stopped her (from) doing it

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 14

1. Milos Forman vs. Miloš Forman in English

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 15

1. Aheat

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 16

1. elektricität vs elektrizität
2. Pronunciation of Hebrew: Is there a WP standard?
3. I'm looking for a language, other than English, that has a word which means both the opposite of soft and the opposite of easy.

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 17

1. A language with a word that means both sweet tasting and soft to the touch?
2. What language is this?

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 18

1. Calligraphic character

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 19

1. of House, of the House

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 20

1. Style rule for vulgar fractions and ordinal suffixes

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 21

1. My little cabbage
2. Roller skating down the aventine
3. Silent reading
4. Clinician
5. Contiguous and conterminous?

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 22

1. Commencinus?

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 23

1. Verify validity of an edit to Chinese characters?
2. Osterwasser

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 25

1. “Rape” in Japanese
2. Affection / Affectation

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 26

1. Latin translation
2. How can be these two types of adjective groups distinguished terminologically?
3. If English is not mey first language how can I get a writing help?

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 27

1. Quelccaya
2. Translation or explanation, please

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 28

1. Korean language
2. Perpetuate

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 29

1. Are there non-gradable adjectives?

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 April 30

1. Having to do with the knee