Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2017

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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 1

1. Usage of the word Amaranthine
2. Is there a difference between linguistic immersion and living in another country for work?

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 2

1. Development of Chinese characters from holistic to compositional

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 3

1. Motion that each arm swings
2. English -ar vs -er

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 4

1. Creating fictional languages in the entertainment industry
2. German wievielte

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 5

1. "Shaker"?
2. Question mark in Solomon Islands Pijin

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 7

1. Make it happen/make it happens
2. Spanish "bujía" (spark plug)

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 8

1. Can someone help translate the Wiccan rede article into Chinese and the Wiccan rede itself?
2. Katakana script
3. Is the following construction grammatical in English? <verb> + "him" + <subjunctive>

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 9

1. Swedish lingua franca Scandinavian

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 10

1. "all but"
2. Is Jesús ever a Jewish name?

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 11

1. English: Negation after a question
2. A hard one... ["This is nothing of which I would say I am proud of"]
3. German news phrases

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 12

1. Etymology of the word 'male'
2. To use sth as sth

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 13

1. Myanmar character
2. W sound in Greek

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 15

1. Portuguese name order

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 16

1. Name for pin
2. Chinese translation
3. Which are universal linguistic sounds?

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 17

1. "graveyard cashier"

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 18

1. Tintin's (Traditional) Fonts
2. Decrypting newly found languages

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 19

1. Articles and Latin Speakers
2. A hard one... ["This is nothing of which I would say I am proud of"]
3. Use
4. When a Spaniard says: "Learn how to deal in a restaurant"

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 20

1. Witwatersrand
2. How grammatical are these in UK/Ireland/Aus/NZ?

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 22

1. Russian "возвращение"
2. Linguistic term to describe possessives, dependent clauses, and adverbial inflexions as one collective entity?

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 23

1. Translation from German needed
2. Models or theories or hypotheses in linguistics and impact on the brain and their philosophical bases

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 24

1. Yiddish transcription to Latin alphabet

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 25

1. What does "button job" mean?
2. How similar is Russian and greek

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 26

1. Company names are plural or singular in English?
2. Typos on Polish WP page
3. "Verarschen kann ich mich selber!"
4. Translation of text from Catalan to English

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 27

1. Bad Hand?
2. A hard one... ["This is nothing of which I would say I am proud of"]
3. "Standard German is probably the closest to Russian outside the existing Balto-Slavic languages"[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language&diff=812258154&oldid=812255659 *]
4. Glottal stops in Aussie English

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 28

1. 为什么 vs 为神马 vs 為什麼
2. Nicaraguan Sign Language center-embedding: is it unique?

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 November 29

1. Similarities between English and German
2. Is there a term for trying to get information out of a dream through your phone?