Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2008

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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 1

1. reëxamining
2. wait until next shoe drop
3. Feldherrnhalle
4. Learning a language online
5. Phrases sharing initials
6. Meaning of word 'skin horse'

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 2

1. Plural vs Singular
2. Loser's folly
3. Verkündung der Wehrfreiheit (Germany, 1935)
4. Usage of word "aspect"
5. "mille e tre" in Leporello's catalogue aria (Don Giovanni)
6. Latvian question
7. Catcher in the Rye
8. Russian questions

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 3

1. Orwell
2. who and whom
3. Parenthesis in quotations
4. German translation
5. "Eitherly"

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 4

1. Poss ess
2. ORIGIONAL SCRIPTURES OF INDIA
3. Please interpret this sentence
4. Meaning
5. Skuta

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 5

1. Section8
2. Translation of text on an image
3. Words ending in Z
4. Auxiliary verbs in English
5. "Five years of fighting"
6. Poem analysis...?
7. Examples of languages with pre-noun and post-noun placement of adjectives

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 6

1. Plural of Destruction
2. Latin Check
3. Feminine endings in English
4. The individual pasta unit
5. what does "they" refer
6. walk enclosure
7. Donacor
8. Russian questions

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 7

1. Vowel in "hören"
2. Looking for a word.
3. German word oder "Es handelt sich hier um.."
4. Improving accent
5. Language in a can?
6. The origin of the term RIP when used to describe a computer generated printout
7. Referring to words
8. Full stop before/after quotation mark
9. Chinese character 枚
10. Is there a word for this: a noun for the place where a child has been raised vs. born?
11. Italian swears

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 8

1. Request for translation in Italian
2. Speakers of [FL-X]
3. Can place be used as a location of text
4. longest english word
5. APA citations
6. Is there a word...
7. what does 'a couple of years' mean? 2year? 2~3year? or old year?
8. Japanese? translation request

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 9

1. Book Info
2. Please help me.
3. Japanese
4. German Prefix
5. Talking horse
6. Question about the American Heritage Dictionary
7. insertion of unnecessary word (of)
8. Chinese Written Standards
9. The Meaning of "aleek betho"
10. Possessive with proper nouns such as businesses
11. Typing Korean
12. The core rules of English

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 10

1. Insults in Calvino's Cavaliere Inesistente
2. Proper term for a flipboard?
3. Question!
4. Mystery character
5. "Adolf Hitler und sein Weg zu Großdeutschland"

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 11

1. Etymology of "decidedly" and "eventually"
2. Anhaltelager (Nazi-Deutsch)
3. Italian translation

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 12

1. Same word with two origins? (i.e. college)
2. Introductory subject "there" and subject-verb agreement in English
3. The first word...
4. Wrong
5. Communications job title
6. Native American naming
7. diploma
8. High vs. tall
9. extant vs existent

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 13

1. Position of "not"
2. "mock group"
3. hebrew writing
4. Translation of "Bhole Nath" - Sanskrit
5. phonetic script of Kachhi (Kachchhi) language
6. English = Latin?
7. "Blog this..."

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 14

1. Is there a name for this kind of fallacy/rebuttal?
2. pronunciation
3. Anglo-Norman
4. German grammar
5. neutral insults

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 15

1. Hyphen-help-request
2. Heliciculture
3. Grammar question
4. Explanation of a poem by T.S Eliot
5. American wanting to do bus. in Afgh. Am confused if Farsi Rosetta Stone is purchased will that be = to Dari?
6. cot cot cot codaaaaak
7. "Something-sized" comparisons

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 16

1. "Equipotency"
2. Swindlehurst
3. Request for translation
4. Ne Quid Nimis
5. "age groupers"
6. A book on human races
7. Unknown text
8. Name for icons
9. Author of Quote or "Law"
10. "Genetic" prefix???
11. Corpora

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 17

1. "snortling"
2. "solistic"
3. Meaning of "steveador"
4. can talk for England
5. What's the word?
6. Arabic spoken texts
7. "May I End This Sentence With a Proposition?"
8. Spanish translation requested
9. German question

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 18

1. novel person
2. Music terminology questions
3. "surf life-saving clubs"
4. "tone quality"
5. Quia vir reprobus

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 19

1. Tropeiro
2. khushwant singh's writing style.
3. Encouraging phrases
4. Irmiter
5. German definite article plus name
6. Honesty and truthfullness
7. "To be, or not to be" ... what?
8. Latin term for 'Inquiring Human'
9. Copy text for assessing penmanship
10. "ultrahydrophobicity"
11. "periareolar"

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 20

1. Chinese corpora
2. UN languages
3. male sonantes

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 21

1. Desk officer
2. name of drawing
3. operative trauma Talk:Penile plethysmograph
4. "bulk-producing"
5. Value of a book
6. unusual declension of the Latin noun aedes
7. Chinese grammar

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 22

1. "privately-held"
2. N Word
3. Kilometre Pronunciation

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 23

1. Greek Title
2. Russian text on a memorial monument
3. Greek name style
4. Indian
5. The teen numbers in other languages
6. ...his viva in medicine
7. Hand that feeds...and...?
8. Qirlo-Qerlo
9. Bless your (his/her etc.) cotton socks

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 24

1. Etymology of 'extemporise'
2. looking for the word for
3. thematic priorities
4. Asya
5. Time was
6. Is it possible to be ambitious without being pretentious?
7. Quoi vs. que and other French grammar questions...
8. 2008-06-24 C > WIKIPEDIA = A NEW BWORD IN THE BLOGOSPHERE??
9. Eat your "vége"
10. Language differences between British and American English

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 25

1. French translation
2. What does "great primer" mean?
3. spelling
4. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/EC#Initialism
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music#Noatikl

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 26

1. What is the plural of "how-to" when used as a noun?
2. In versus On
3. Have a life
4. Mesleems
5. English-language term for SS person-unit
6. Verb tense
7. "Whether"

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 27

1. a / an
2. chanbara-go
3. Hebrew
4. Arabic for "network"?
5. private
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilia#Cilium-related_disease
7. Lace-making
8. anatomies VS anatomy
9. No-one vs. no one

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 28

1. Celtic language pronunciation
2. Request for Danish translation
3. Vandalize
4. French translation

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 29

1. Thanks, good work on orange
2. Language/word pronounciation
3. what is the meaning of “make a bomb"?
4. German question
5. lorem ipsum
6. Klaus Kinski interview
7. "Enigma was among the first recording groups to use direct to HD recording studio and non-percussion musical instrument and vocal samples..."

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 30

1. Freud in Portuguese: "Arquitectura animica"
2. Spainish help
3. Wedding congratulations in French
4. Pronunciation of 'P' in German
5. Help with a sentence in Turkish
6. Use of full-stops, closing brackets, commas etc in Setswana
7. Indonesian
8. Name of school in Reims, France, 1945
9. Alphabetical order of persons' names and numbers in featured lists
10. One Syllable?