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March 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 1

  1. Taskrabbit and Upwork
  2. sign off approvals

March 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 2

  1. Which novel has a novelist protagonist who can't proceed beyond the first sentence of his novel?
  2. Voiced and voiceless consonants in Russian

March 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 3

  1. work on your presentation
  2. Gender in early Indo-European
  3. [Closed] Would Brits, when with their family or friends say something like "Can you pass me the salt?"
  4. Proto Indo European excerpt

March 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 5

  1. bring new ideas to the table
  2. Tribal Shamanism vs Organized Religion?
  3. Lysander and Lysandros

March 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 6

  1. What is "乾亨行"
  2. get smart to sth.
  3. not at a soccer game instead of a client meeting
  4. What language can be typed by more humans than any other?
  5. Present participle of verbs ending in -ie

March 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 7

  1. BBC oddity

March 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 8

  1. leading to... or leading to the...
  2. Esperanto for "cannabis activist"?
  3. "true gun"

March 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 9

  1. Japanese Pronunciation--1940s
  2. Arabic mosque sign

March 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 10

  1. Japanese to English

March 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 11

  1. Cuneiform
  2. What's the linguistic equivalent of a foreign accent in a written text?
  3. Old names

March 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 12

  1. Vegetable
  2. Meaning of "scientist"
  3. "You're gonna need two hands" sentence construction

March 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 13

  1. Which one is true?
  2. What are these adjective pairs called?
  3. Concave base of a glass bottle

March 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 14

  1. Marked Features?
  2. "At the end of the day"

March 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 15

  1. "Not good at mathematics"

March 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 16

  1. Is there a term for this?
  2. "couple" as singular noun or plural?
  3. Which languages are we?
  4. British/American English
  5. Sandy bulls

March 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 17

  1. Sequence of tenses for abstract statements
  2. Take/bring home
  3. Old map translation (1700s Latin/French/Spanish/Italian)
  4. Early PIE Ergativity?

March 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 18

  1. Origin of this saying?
  2. German to English

March 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 21

  1. Katakana characters
  2. One subject two verbs
  3. Turkish

March 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 22

  1. Meaning of "traves"

March 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 23

  1. Hempl's theory on G

March 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 24

  1. grammar
  2. Dictionary, name of items under a headword
  3. Naturally Sound?

March 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 25

  1. Surprise packet

March 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 26

  1. "she's a Portsmouth"
  2. how do you count number of words that you know?
  3. I wish to know what texts other than the Tanakh and Talmud are sacred.

March 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 27

  1. grammatical term
  2. Colloquial Arabic imperatives

March 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 28

  1. Word sought

March 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 29

  1. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

March 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 30

  1. Tower of Babel
  2. Use of "portmanteau" for Japanese concatenated words
  3. capitalization of plc

March 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 31

  1. Imitation of Russian?
  2. Obama is the 44th President?
  3. Беринг (фон Беринг), Владимир Михайлович
  4. In or at a roadstead?