Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2017

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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 1

1. Word/expression meaning tomorrow+morning

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 2

1. Old-fashioned window
2. Kombinat
3. Russian carbide
4. By the side of the road
5. "Long dog"
6. German mitrechnen

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 5

1. the meaning of tortoise's strategy
2. Glottal stops in Aussie English (continued)
3. Sauchiehall Street

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 7

1. as respects instead of as regards?

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 8

1. Items in a list
2. Vehicle registration plates of Tunisia

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 9

1. "This is not something [what / which / that] I would say [about] I am proud of" (once more...)

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 10

1. types of literacy

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 11

1. What is it called when a character has multiple readings depending on context?
2. How does one translate these sentences into Spanish?

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 14

1. Has anyone amalgamated German, French, Italian and Romansh into a constructed language?
2. Roman Urdu
3. Tone letters in minority languages of SW China
4. Use of singular personal pronoun for a whole species/group/etc
5. Can grammatically incorrect sentences translate across languages?
6. Speak it well or poorly?

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 15

1. Character amnesia

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 16

1. Entitled

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 17

1. What language is this in

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 18

1. Comma or no comma?

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 19

1. What is the antonym of "per se"?

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 20

1. If English and Spanish are made official in the US, then would Spanish cease to be taught as a foreign language?

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 21

1. Spanish b’s and p’s
2. Follow-up grammar question
3. Allons, enfants de la Patrie

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 22

1. past partecipe of verb of XVIII (1795)
2. "he acts as if he don't Care"

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 23

1. 背徳漢
2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. Welsh "I am" question

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 24

1. Pantchova

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 25

1. Listing in Esperanto
2. Change to the article Christmas

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 26

1. Norwegian names with matronyms
2. Son of my Father

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 27

1. Nachts Scheint Die Sonne
2. -er / norse r

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 28

1. Two questions about Japanese alphabets
2. Present perfect

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 29

1. Little river cove with no flow
2. Languages that don't require pronunciations in their dictionaries
3. Homographs and word-repetition
4. Looking for linguistic terms
5. Anybody know how to lip read?
6. Drawing a Ѯ

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 31

1. You are worth the struggle.