Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2011

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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 1

1. Needing a Specific Word
2. Chinese language
3. Is the following pair of the sentences felicitous?
4. Latvian treatment of foreign names
5. Insurance
6. Foreign language help

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 2

1. Expressing emotions in tonal languages
2. "The" in front of a person's name
3. Chinese translation
4. Elvedin (given name)
5. Stuttering and Slurring
6. Linguistics

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 3

1. Tai chi chuan pronunciation
2. Aram Khachaturian - Correct Armenian / Russian pronunciation
3. Pronunciation of West Anglia
4. Communicating while relating Schedule information
5. French words ending in -ent

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 4

1. Two chameleons or four?
2. Biweekly, bimonthly, biannual
3. Word order
4. What does "irakere" mean, exactly?

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 5

1. Fandex?
2. Why did Beijing used to be called Peking?
3. French speaker help
4. Notorious
5. coordinate adjectives comma use

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 6

1. Common term for a modus ponens thing
2. French oe ligature
3. Word for family relationship to oneself
4. Japanese translation needed, please
5. Possesive form of "sons of Ishmael."
6. Transposition of consonants in the Lucknow area
7. Molecular orbital theory
8. adverb placement

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 7

1. Help with Russian, Turkish, and Arabic
2. Pretest Probablity and Statistics
3. Chinese and Tamil help
4. "Farther" in British English
5. "There", "they're", "their" confusion.
6. IPA transcription

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 8

1. Spanish language
2. Use of "would" in AmE
3. Feet tangled up
4. In what language is this song?
5. Translation from Farsi
6. Latin expression for "it's defined along the way"
7. Arabic translation

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 9

1. Irrepressible
2. Neutral Target?
3. Quetions from an English exam.
4. Pasty or pastry?
5. What is the average sentence length in English?
6. "Allahu Akbar" in Iraqi/Mesopotamian Arabic

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 10

1. Grammar exam
2. Is this a fragment, a run on or a correct sentence?
3. Risk Ratification
4. Arabic: Deaborn Public Schools
5. (Japanese) A food ingredient
6. Bilanz?

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 11

1. Hindi Help
2. Urdu and Lao Help
3. Decreased prosody of speech
4. Latin -ae plurals
5. Cambodian/Khmer help
6. Italian

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 12

1. Japanese word order
2. More Arabic help
3. Proper use of "big" in "it is that big" and "how big is this"
4. Origin of term hellcat
5. Anna at the door
6. Looking for name of English tense or term
7. double translation
8. The Queen as Granny/Grandma/Gran/Nana
9. What would you call someone who studies carnivals?
10. Alphabetizing names
11. Words of indeterminate etymology

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 13

1. The article "a" versus "an"
2. Square as surname
3. Singular or plural nouns and verbs
4. Which letters
5. British accent

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 14

1. French stress
2. Hindi help
3. You talkin' to me?
4. Couple
5. Looking for semantic labels
6. Rating quality of content

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 15

1. Deloculated
2. A positive rant
3. Bizarre Sentence Stress on UK News Reports
4. Scrabble word list / dictionary disparity
5. (G/K/Kh/Q)addafi

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 16

1. Polytheama / Politeama
2. Brazilian Portuguese
3. An Exultation of Larks
4. Commentary on a writing issue
5. Akihito's speech
6. Ambiguity of 'free' in other languages
7. Doubled consonants

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 17

1. Sentence structure
2. Origin of a last name
3. Surname in Swahili
4. Pronunciation of can't
5. What/which
6. Singer/finger split?
7. Strange title
8. Language Of In-Game Music
9. Philosophical Term

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 18

1. Conjugations of "to souvenir" [?]
2. Japanese nuclear accident vehicle
3. Drag and burn
4. Juncture

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 19

1. Translating an English page into French
2. grauben, gräuben
3. "Tell"?
4. 'How came you'

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 20

1. Strange or unique verbs
2. Greek, Hindi, Russian, Punjabi, and Serbian help
3. deutsch grammatik
4. Traditional Chinese help

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 21

1. Chinese to Sanskrit
2. Active user who knows Hawaiian language
3. Vowels in Arabic, English, and German
4. hoành tráng
5. Why do news reports use present tense?
6. Is there a technical term for the printer's problem...
7. Difference between le pavot and le coquelicot
8. Tornados or Tornadoes?

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 22

1. Spanish translation help needed
2. "Straighter" as a noun
3. "Renamed as"

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 23

1. Quarantania
2. Japanese recognition of simplified Chinese characters
3. "Computer codes"
4. Latin American Spanish and noun plurals
5. flute mask
6. Health care/Healthcare
7. MEDIUM OF VANASTHALI
8. Jason Zebehazy

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 24

1. extrémité/French skeletal anatomy
2. The right way to represent an object or a thing
3. O'bama instead of Obama
4. Russian language question
5. Changing meaning of happiness

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 25

1. Names for "second" and "minute" (units of time)
2. Everyday usage of Standard German in Germany
3. German: -ess like in 'Delikatess'
4. Correct Latin Quote

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 26

1. Intelligibility
2. Sounds

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 27

1. Toilet Words in Mandarin
2. Pronunciation of Fukushima
3. Lao help: Seattle Public Schools
4. "Normally"
5. "That" as relative pronoun
6. "Gadhafi"-"Gadaffi"-"Ka-daffy"

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 28

1. Cambodian/Khmer help
2. Undersell the big shots

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 29

1. Books on English grammar
2. Pronunciation of Muralitharan
3. More than idiom
4. Agent vs. Officer and Office vs. Bureau vs. agency
5. Metaphorical? Hyperbole? Figurative?

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 30

1. liquidation
2. "Multiple association of converting Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese"
3. How do you pronounce the surname Florescu?
4. What exactly the following sentence means?
5. Farsi help needed at the Science desk
6. using of "the"
7. Please throw me the ball, in Spanish and Japanese.
8. Vice Minister?
9. How do I word brother and sister in law

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 March 31

1. Taps
2. Sentence
3. ᴥ Latin Letter Ain