Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2009

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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 1

1. Translation help.
2. Names
3. German idiom?
4. Ich bin ein Berliner

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 2

1. Huddling together of words with very different meanings
2. Remarrying
3. Best titles
4. Word describing the accuracy of an instrument
5. NPOV of forced drugging?
6. I am, etc.

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 3

1. Games
2. "Snow day"?
3. Hallmark-quality?
4. Across-the-board?
5. Pronunciation of Belgian surname: Nagant
6. Looking for a word
7. "Parte presa"? (Venetian decree)
8. Feminine equivalent of "emasculate"
9. Handwell

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 4

1. Teaching English abroad as a non-graduate
2. Inside handle of a car door
3. Flamingo(e)s?
4. American languages
5. Lux Aeterna

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 5

1. Judeo-Yemenite
2. English language [lessons for Arabic speaker]
3. Arabic for "the sublime"
4. relationship between sanskrit and hindi
5. Canadian accent on the word sorry

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 6

1. Proper spanish translation
2. Gender and color vocabulary
3. Way to abbreviate "greats" in describing ancestors...

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 7

1. Verb tense?
2. Need an explaination of a Quebecois/French word
3. Bezier Curve
4. Verbs and prepositions
5. Test to pass
6. Active & Passive forms
7. Wāli = viceroy, governor, or ?
8. No dead horse left unflogged
9. "Walrus"- Dutch

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 8

1. What word...
2. Avoidance of "an"
3. what words are you allergic to?
4. Who said this?
5. "Cripple" - ca. 1940
6. French-saxon
7. Coquet vs Coquette

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 9

1. what do you call a person with no sense of smell
2. Breezeway?
3. an & h
4. Numbers and Hyphenation
5. ridulous, ridulousness
6. 18th century English pronunciation
7. two latin questions
8. following on from breezeway
9. Old English perfect aspect
10. Use of of

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 10

1. the letter H in Scrabble
2. Belt
3. what's not feeling called?
4. it's and its
5. Umbrella term for hair, fur and feather?

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 11

1. about .net language
2. Question for Londoners and other H-droppers
3. shakespeare
4. albert camus
5. Pronuncation of "Australia"
6. Dates of Joining letter
7. vietnamese translation huong tra
8. spanish translation slither, thrust

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 12

1. Heckling in a movie theatre
2. Ch sound
3. Antihomophonym?
4. What is a conceptual term ?
5. German Zwirn
6. spanish translation, sore
7. Name [Why so many starting with J?]
8. Question about a Russian song

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 13

1. translate "navratan korma" from hindi (?)
2. French Translation Question
3. 2 book titles, Latin > English
4. Words with exactly one rhyme
5. Using idiomatic expressions literally

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 14

1. Latin word miramini
2. Why gravitate to antisocial language?
3. how about rewriting this in english
4. Capitalization of academic title
5. Per cent and (UK?) media

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 15

1. False Non-Cognates
2. Specific way of communicating with deaf and blind people.
3. questions on the language used in a university certificate
4. Missing out the word 'the'
5. Redundant "that"s
6. "L" in Bavarian

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 16

1. ...[Why are ships sometimes referred to as "she"?]
2. Writing Amharic by hand
3. revision

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 17

1. other lists for poetry and pleasure
2. Correct grammar/punctuation for length of time

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 18

1. (Y)ekaterina
2. French verb caracoler

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 19

1. Comparative Frequency List
2. Leaves of Grass- Semantic shift?
3. thoroughbly
4. What's with this type of punctuation
5. "Go on fire"
6. Translation from French to English
7. Plural of 'Catch 22'
8. Punctuation
9. Double v single quotes
10. Virtues ending with letters 'ce'
11. The dictionary
12. Part of speech
13. "Gone, but not forgotten"

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 20

1. Vaessen
2. word for 'pay what you think its worth'
3. Who's down under?
4. Assimilation of Japanese syllable coda /n/ before /w/?
5. My, my
6. Ajar words
7. Term for a figure of speech

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 21

1. Conjugation
2. Arabic Transliterations
3. Liyannaj?
4. English language question - differences in speech and conversation
5. Question about the suffix "Jr."
6. think
7. Czech nickname for Josef (or ?)
8. Is this Correct?

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 22

1. Obcurity ["upper youth"]
2. Chinese characters
3. list of alternades
4. Pronunciation of Korean?
5. English Saying From Years Ago

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 23

1. Dita Saxova
2. Criticism
3. Russian language help, please
4. jact greek course: new vs. old edition
5. what is the translation of APRES MOI LE DELUGE

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 24

1. up/down the street
2. Devotee
3. spanish translation
4. Spanish punctuation
5. A single preposition for both date and time
6. What is this City in Japan?
7. Hohen vs. Hoher (Meißner)
8. What does 山人 mean?
9. butler in spanish
10. Grammar Question

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 25

1. Definition
2. What colour is jajeok (Korean 紫赤)?
3. XX: 你好
4. 你家有没有吗？

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 26

1. Surnames that indicate ancestor was an abandoned child
2. comma after or before "and"
3. Longest string of letters shared by non-cognates
4. guarantee
5. German/English Beamte/Functionary
6. How to disambiguate following sentence
7. Semester
8. The Disappearance Of J.Thomson
9. Fear of Computers in Latin
10. Earliest attestation for singular "United States"
11. need a word that starts with the letter D and means pattern

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 27

1. What's the word for a medication that doesn't cure, only mitigates symptoms?

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 28

1. A few of chinese phrases
2. Root words in a polysynthetic language
3. Similar sounding terms?
4. Domo
5. and we feel that this initiative would further the goals of that policy
6. one word or multiple words that mean New Beginning, Hope, Rebuilding, Courage
7. Words that have travelled a long way
8. 你家有没有宠物吗？