Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2010

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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 1

1. Resonances??
2. Capitalization of ranks and titles and names
3. Spoken idiosyncrasy
4. Ring inscription
5. Translation of a French Military Unit name
6. Help me decoding this arabic/french
7. Old Swedish tune
8. Arabic name for Tel Aviv district
9. Japanese sentence help
10. Makh Tsi Di Eygelakh
11. Independent or dependent clause?

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 2

1. Children learning multiple languages
2. Why is there not a word "firmen"?

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 3

1. English to Japanese
2. What does Celine Dion say?
3. Correct capitalization for surnames
4. Latin translation / Charles V
5. Congruent
6. Greek and Russian I think
7. Japanese verb form
8. Chinese pronunciation

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 4

1. Harappan Seals Website
2. Afination?
3. Đ & Ð

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 5

1. on grammatical reference
2. This is how you do it
3. Translation from Hungarian
4. Damning praise
5. Japanse sentence help -- contraction?
6. French translation
7. Assistance is needed from someone who can read Indic script

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 6

1. Please help with a Middle (?) English expression
2. Latin language
3. Japanese sentence help -- 何もかもしよう
4. "It was about some stuff" or similar...
5. Chinese character

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 7

1. Japanese translation
2. on a conjunction in German
3. I can't believe it's not a colon (or is it?)
4. What would be a good antonym for "simulation"
5. What language is spoken by this choir?
6. Antillean Creole and Haitian Creole

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 8

1. Translation for "Sauglattismus"
2. Cyrillic-alphabet text, which language?
3. History of "the"
4. able to

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 9

1. Jump meaning in Japan
2. Extravagances and extravaganzas
3. Japanese sentence help -- 宿の件
4. The Simpsons in Catalan

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 10

1. Estonian labour parties
2. Language used in the KJV Bible
3. IPA help requested.
4. Spanish transcription and translation

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 11

1. 500-word Swadesh List?
2. -ization
3. Therapeutiae
4. quaid e milleth
5. Best first language
6. Language with most rigid syntax
7. Translation help from German

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 12

1. hair dropping on to the cheeks on female face, what's it called?
2. Japanese sentence help -- いいなか
3. The etymology of adj. ‘analytic’ in the academic discipline of ‘analytic philosophy’
4. phonetics help
5. her und hier

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 13

1. What do you call this seed?
2. Japanese sentence -- なれ
3. Is cr*p a swear word?
4. Japanese
5. Morgen
6. Notwithstanding
7. Translation into Italian
8. "Was a former"

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 14

1. The phonetic transcription /ˌmænɪˈtoʊbə/ (Manitoba)
2. Unusual use of "The" for a German speaker of English
3. Translate short Latin passage
4. German pronunciation of s and ess-tsett
5. Japanese "probable" mood
6. Ambiguity of “Mitsubishi car”
7. Is the pronunciation for "Only" a regional thing?
8. Kanji problems
9. Can the expression "There is Y for X" be replaced by the expression "X has Y"?
10. ESPN's use of African language

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 15

1. Spanish Translation
2. WWII wireless operator in AE
3. Turned out well
4. Etymology of "to hail from"
5. 'Firing For Effect'

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 16

1. Mandarin in Japanese
2. Derivation of the word "Laodicea"
3. Maori in letters
4. Word Usage
5. Archaic Dutch declension
6. English for Swedish "Idrott"

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 17

1. Asking about quantity in English
2. German "beziehungsweise" (bzw.)
3. Ancient Greek Transcription/Transliteration/Translation Query
4. Damn'?
5. Feitknechtit
6. Declensions of "just"

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 18

1. What is so special about accents, that makes them so difficult?
2. -er vs. -eer in English
3. Mental health care: consumer, user or client?
4. Lena's bizarre accent
5. Chinese translation request
6. Translate from Japanese to English

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 19

1. Translation Into Japanese
2. Announcing Eurovision results
3. pronunciation of Yue ware
4. Does saying, "It still begs the question" another name for circular reasoning?
5. Garden or yard
6. Down Pat

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 20

1. Adjective for Family resemblance
2. Mutual intelligibility of written languages using Chinese characters
3. Forgetting one's language
4. Meaning of the word "Tambja"
5. Word: Vuvuzela
6. South African English
7. USA English
8. Is it offensive to say "Kill the lights?"
9. Best verb to use for "destroyed" in this context - German
10. What is the English word
11. Cycle to date
12. What is this grammatical error called?

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 21

1. Etymology of the idiom 吹毛求疪
2. How can I get Unicode range of a Language.
3. -ian vs. -esque
4. more Deutsch help needed
5. what is the word for the 'negative feeling'
6. Verses in "An Mhaighdean Mhara" (Irish)

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 22

1. Possible dangling modifier
2. Martian Language
3. 'Dirty big' and 'dirty great'
4. What is the right word here
5. Crystal Chrystal surname

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 23

1. translation
2. WP:RUS and BGN/PCGN do not concern names/toponyms or parts of them, which are written originally in Latin alphabet and are not Russian
3. Poetry
4. Hebrew inscription
5. Help in locating French book
6. Japanese News Source for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood announcement

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 24

1. "Taal" language?
2. Future languages of Wikipedia
3. term for hypocritical situation

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 25

1. Mensch from German or Yiddish?

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 26

1. classical lanquages
2. Proverbial translation
3. Verdun
4. Chinese word Gui (歸)

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 27

1. Phonetic transcription of Norwegian
2. What's wrong with this sentence?
3. Translation; English -> Lakota
4. Big band furniture
5. Vietnamese "ph" instead of "f"
6. Pronouncing s like sh, e.g. in "last" year - pronounced like: "lasht" year, in some American accents.
7. Chinese reading help
8. Difference.

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 28

1. Crossword clue?
2. AAVE - Southern American English
3. Thoribism
4. Working as a French-Spanish translator?
5. Question on a Japanese word -- 涯

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 29

1. Argumentative phrase
2. Translation from Finnish
3. Use of "me"
4. German vocabulary question
5. Greek in Gaudy Night
6. In French: the meaning of l'axe

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 30

1. non-offensive wordlist
2. What is the term for the person (other than a ‘pedant’)
3. Is it ‘snap’ or something else?
4. Forearm limp
5. Right to Left
6. Japanese Mole
7. French translation
8. Japanese
9. Greek translation