Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2014

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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 1

1. Question or not
2. What is this Arabic romanization style called?

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 2

1. the meaning of "parting lives"
2. the meaning of "ever again"
3. Requests for transcriptions of Armenian and Arabic

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 3

1. watch that smile
2. Mythical origin of Japanese

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 4

1. Disyllabic syllables?
2. what does "way out" mean?
3. Fellow soldier
4. French phrase

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 5

1. Which variety of Serbo-Croatian is this?
2. lash out in the greyness of the room

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 6

1. I'm looking for sentences containing double successive words, e.g. "Give her her book", "He said that that was clear", "I told you you were wrong", "The owner's dog told it it would be punished", "The doll got broken so please try to put its back back".
2. WSJ (July 5-6): Too Many Eggs In Your Boss's Basket
3. Verbs with limited objects
4. A book on popular linguistics

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 8

1. Arabic help
2. Sanction
3. Disaster

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 9

1. Best way to punctuate this sentence? (related to semicolons and the likes)
2. Borboletta

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 10

1. posse-artist
2. :la:Cynthia Crawford
3. Is this use of the word "inspire" correct?
4. Turmeric pronounced

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 11

1. Xenophon, Hiero 1.7
2. Yesterday
3. Grammatical gender

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 12

1. "Wikipedia is bias"
2. Names of Germany
3. Is this sentence correct?
4. Highly Irregular Languages?

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 13

1. Predicting changes in English usage in the future
2. Terminology for participles
3. Medieval bridges
4. Is Micro-Altaic dead?
5. What is a "patriarch" used in this context?
6. Word for semicircular stadium
7. Which Wikipedia article(s) is(are) available in the most languages/orthographies?

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 14

1. Amazon or amazon

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 15

1. Maracanaço
2. Tense
3. Has "whore" become neutral?

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 16

1. Velopharyngeal fricatives
2. Jack In The Box
3. Greek epsilon with caron

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 17

1. What does "Renaissance boy" in this sentence mean?
2. What are the Chinese characters?
3. Meaning of series of symbols

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 18

1. Names' Names
2. off of
3. Hard on

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 19

1. leaving by the back door
2. Related Languages
3. Arab place name

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 20

1. or not
2. interlingual communication
3. Pronunciation of Russian aircraft models such as "Tu-2"
4. Differences in meanings
5. Japanese translation help

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 22

1. The word "Holey"
2. "Deceased"
3. Name of Asia
4. greek diacritics
5. Did Karl May know genuine Apache words?

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 23

1. Take no prisoners

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 24

1. Blimber Road

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 25

1. Metre
2. Word for low quality scientific papers

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 26

1. Request for a quote in arabic script
2. Are there languages talking about "saurs"?

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 27

1. Pronunciation of Polish surname

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 28

1. Based out of?
2. Irish translation help needed

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 29

1. What's the difference between "godparent", "adoptive parent", and "foster parent"?
2. Anyone know Arabic?

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 30

1. Anyone read Dutch?

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 July 31

1. Parminder
2. such was its fidelity
3. Language maps with relief