Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2008

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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 1

1. translation from latin to english
2. question about the sentence 這是食物嗎？ 是的，它是。
3. Learn Russian to read chess books
4. -al
5. Mandarin Chinese 个: gè vs. ge
6. Confusion on Mandarin Chinese Prepositions
7. How come we cannot make a page about ourselves.

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 2

1. Singular or plural?
2. Spanish: Regional tú and usted
3. izquierda
4. Written forms of address in Catalan
5. Korean language readers needed
6. Widow/widower

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 3

1. "You betcha"
2. "Woman" as adjective
3. Dutch names

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 4

1. question (Word for someone who believes in equal opportunity)
2. Literal meaning and ethymology of "douchebag"
3. "Untenability"
4. Syllabic sonorants
5. Which kanji for Ryko?
6. On what date does a murder "occur"?

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 5

1. African Americans
2. "Staving off the prospect of an imminent change"
3. Synonym for collateral damage
4. 'Junk' as male genitals?

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 6

1. "Sold to American." Auction chant
2. Name for Coast Guard Servicemember
3. Books of the Bible
4. French-English/French-French dictionaries
5. Run-on sentence help
6. Part of speech

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 7

1. Polish municipal post?
2. WHAT KIND OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE IS THIS?
3. COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
4. improv
5. a word
6. Question about "colo(u)ris/ze"

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 8

1. -ographer
2. Neighborhood fire?
3. Time
4. Give, seen, came and done as past tense variants
5. Could anyone identify the script
6. Speechreading, Deaf culture, and children
7. Shimmer me Timbers

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 9

1. French grammar
2. Ration
3. Slave in Haitian Creole
4. Number of syllables
5. Narrative Poetry and the Real World
6. A little vocabulary help

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 10

1. Fraise and Framboise
2. Latin translation request
3. Lipreading
4. How to say this word "Lidgbird"?
5. Looking for a useful audio-guide on accents/dialects from Great Britain and Ireland
6. Filipino question
7. terms

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 11

1. Spanish translation
2. Difference between "buy" and "purchase"

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 12

1. Turkey (the bird) in Turkish?
2. The word 'cheesy'
3. Is 'sexed' a verb when refering to gender indentification?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 13

1. Is Juvatave a word?
2. Deliberate misspellings
3. Trying to remember phrase meaning "willing domination by military"
4. Is this sentence grammatically correct?
5. Study or studying?
6. Priceless

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 14

1. Neo (conlang) materials
2. pharses
3. English to Latin translation request
4. I got my mojo working
5. Chinese measure words for candy, money, coffee, and food.

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 15

1. krɪst naˈkoːra guˈsɔ
2. Use of "the" at the delicatessen
3. Viva la Vida
4. Referring to a group of people from Turkey.

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 16

1. Horse meat
2. French question
3. Russian (Cyrillic) surname suffix in English transliteration
4. German Grammar
5. Surname pronunciation
6. Russian for lazy
7. Yemen Ellerinde Veysel Karani (English)

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 17

1. Language reform
2. grammar question - it's a simple one so please answer me quickly!!!!!!
3. IS IT RIGHT TO PUT A COMMA BEFORE A SUBORDINATE CONJUNCTION?
4. Dutch or Afrikaans?
5. Souchon
6. Number of English sentences
7. The apparent rank of Borisch Kommendant in World in Conflict
8. Vetula sed(?) Noli Picare... Is this correct Latin?
9. Russian: "corashon"

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 18

1. German sentence for translation
2. Plural of "index"

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 19

1. If I don't see you beforehand ...
2. Twins' names
3. Is a pair or a flock an it or a they?
4. "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
5. English language
6. Brazil= Belgium in India?
7. latin hospes meaning both guest and host
8. Learning
9. Cornish translation
10. What is the etymology of the phrase "A Day in the Life"?
11. mapudungun wikipedia
12. Korean language

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 20

1. Misinterpreted words
2. Balls of brass
3. The word "fuck" in 1800's American west..
4. phraseology
5. chetedouyi
6. What does the "LIO" prefix mean in the scientific name of "Pocket Mice"?
7. Names of Ruthenian political parties
8. Birth registry book

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 21

1. Horse metaphors
2. German and Russian assistance
3. Opposite [of language attrition]?

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 22

1. A good way to learn to write Korean?
2. Help needed with verification using RS in Italian
3. Billigen Kieker ("Das Bild Lebt!")
4. Numbers in a Sentence

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 23

1. One name
2. "Awful" can mean "Chic"?
3. Latin expert needed
4. A translation from Dutch
5. How many languages do you need to know to be able to speak to 50% of the world?
6. Apostrophe usage
7. 'Should' or 'would'?

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 24

1. Merry Christmas
2. Euphemisms
3. Word meaning
4. French sentence
5. Type of idiom
6. American english vowels

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 25

1. Chroma Zone
2. Mistranslated donation remark

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 26

1. Are there words in other languages that cannot be translated into english?
2. Japanese translation request
3. January 1 or 1 January
4. Correct?

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 27

1. Noun for "serious"
2. "Nuit blanche" = sleepless vs. night-for-day?
3. What does it mean if someone (not me) is accused of having a 'bovine' attitude?
4. SPIN or SPA questioning techniques
5. English in Indian daily life
6. Comma or semicolon. Which is more correct...

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 28

1. Avo=?
2. Terms of reference
3. Premodern English
4. Latin question
5. Japanese
6. "want" and "need"
7. Pronounce Holguín, a Cuban city

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 29

1. Stick in the mud
2. Deconjuration or disconjuration
3. As-salaamu alaykum
4. Period past abbreviations

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 30

1. Abbreviation
2. Yucatan
3. Benin and Gabon
4. Sloppy Writing by Einstein and Szilárd?
5. Web language conventions?

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 31

1. grammer gone missing went missing right or wrong
2. Pronoun
3. Evolution of English
4. Model of "broken" English in Hollywood movies
5. English to German
6. With + -ing
7. "On accident" more than just a malaprop of "by accident"?