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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 1

  1. Bach title
  2. Exposition to alcohol causes...
  3. even more probable to be true
  4. Scottish
  5. Unidentified symbol
  6. Journalist with foreign accent?
  7. Please translate the following?

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 2

  1. english language
  2. Translation
  3. Two statements
  4. Power to seniority - one word?
  5. War with oneself
  6. A study about English
  7. Is there an equivalent to "teenager" etc in those other languages?
  8. "have all but"
  9. omonimus
  10. Latin jokes
  11. Six sigma projects
  12. Titular character

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 3

  1. Punctuation question
  2. Jesus in Shakespeare
  3. Style: "first and only debate" vs. "only debate"
  4. a lot vs. alot
  5. Parallelism Help
  6. Iconic?
  7. Too many words?
  8. How many debuts are permitted?

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 4

  1. I double dog dare ya
  2. How young are young people?
  3. "Indian-American"?
  4. Briefest/most efficient written language
  5. Homework help
  6. Ayatollah means...?

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 5

  1. Number of speakers of any second language
  2. Cashing some Travellers Cheques in Korea.
  3. End of meeting - adjourned/dissolution
  4. Indeed
  5. kind of abbreviation
  6. Japanese question
  7. Plural of "man’s man"

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 6

  1. Is this source saying "Luçoes" in Portuguese translates into "Luzons" in English?
  2. curriculum vitae
  3. Japanese
  4. Inelegant or appropriate?
  5. Audio Japanese dictionary
  6. Latin duck translation

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 7

  1. Hitler's accent
  2. Career
  3. France and Spain
  4. Prefix

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 8

  1. Shark
  2. Grammar question
  3. Listas repr.

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 9

  1. ENGLISH
  2. Samuel Segev
  3. 中國人如何學好英語？
  4. English Language Diagram or Graph
  5. Which is correct American English?
  6. Right grammar?
  7. Pollepel Island
  8. neutral toward religion

October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 10

  1. Anglicisms in other languages
  2. Saline solution or water?
  3. Translation request: English → Esperanto
  4. Translation from Italian requested

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 11

  1. Japanese Question: 抑揚がない?
  2. Condolezza Rice
  3. Ř
  4. "I had a question which answer is likely to vary from person to person"

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 12

  1. P. that W.'s?
  2. Speaking of Wodehouse
  3. Seasons of capitalization
  4. Unknown language
  5. モバイルダイアリ
  6. Mystery language? Code?
  7. Linguistics
  8. Signing Versus Subtitles
  9. Finnish/English song translation- Väkirauta by Korpiklaani

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 13

  1. Sounds like
  2. What language:
  3. Lower case Cyrillic "Te"
  4. ...ussia?
  5. English to Welsh translation please
  6. Comma or no comma?

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 14

  1. Stephen Fry on Room 101
  2. Haitian Creole-English + vice versa dictionary
  3. NLP Language course
  4. in or at
  5. Odin's Pig
  6. Referring to yourself as Mr.

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 15

  1. English to Spanish translation
  2. Hump(s)
  3. On the characteristics of brand name
  4. I think my text contains a lot of mistakes
  5. Writing a letter in Icelandic
  6. How is "seleção" pronounced?

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 16

  1. Sentence construction
  2. Netherlands in espanol
  3. Quu
  4. Bahrain
  5. Switch engines off or switch off engines
  6. “The banks just are not lending.” vs. “The banks are just not lending.”
  7. "I think it is more important than ever that he win." vs. "I think it is more important than ever that he wins."
  8. Is it al-Maliki or Maliki
  9. Sentence structure
  10. Honouring fatalities?
  11. Number of languages needed to speak to 50% of world
  12. 'Law words'

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 17

  1. might
  2. Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM
  3. French naming negatives
  4. Appropriateness of "whom" in spoken English
  5. Meaning of Italian word vergognosco
  6. a quatre pas d'ici
  7. I.e. or I.E. ?
  8. Pear shaped

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 18

  1. Czech Version of Name
  2. Kanji Help

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 19

  1. what do you call this thing used in book shelves?
  2. How did the phrase "Old wives' tale" come about?
  3. Is there any real difference between these two sentences
  4. sample of formal vs. informal english
  5. -ev ending in Russian surnames
  6. Help with pronunciaion
  7. in italian they use settemlia bace per te Why use 7000?
  8. Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana use
  9. "...both tumour suppressor and oncogenic pathways"
  10. Lanuages with masc./fem. 2nd person
  11. "Mada mada dane!"

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 20

  1. Grammatical gender
  2. spanish or apache languauge translation
  3. debate judge vocabulary

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 21

  1. What does one call the term that causes the emergence of a complementary retronym?
  2. Latin initials
  3. Frequency of Initial Letters of the Alphabet worldwide & on wikipedia
  4. A particular apostrophe problem
  5. Symbols on Wiki globe
  6. الموسيقى

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 22

  1. word derivation/history
  2. Spanish translation
  3. Parental warning
  4. Writing on Indian Rocket Chandrayaan-1 (Hindi)
  5. Help with a Latin language British title
  6. What is the Chinese term "金童玉女" in English?
  7. Overlapping subsets
  8. how does english sound to others?
  9. Past tense uses of the verb "to text"
  10. Celtic/Irish/Welsh Symbolism Sign Language

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 23

  1. Ballots and votes

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 24

  1. Russian spam
  2. Map of world languages
  3. Template for this Article needs to be copyedited by a native English speaker ?
  4. Quick question [agreement of verb with compound subject]
  5. Japanese Question
  6. Accents of Hitchcock and Karloff
  7. Kamikaze
  8. Japanese Merchant Ships

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 25

  1. Japanese translation
  2. A note on masculine as default grammatical gender
  3. Punctuation [in Charade, and in Shakespeare?]
  4. Kde domov muj? [Czech pronunciation]
  5. Does a word/phrase exist for this type of "getting caught"?
  6. Pronunciation guide
  7. Phobia name

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 26

  1. Magazine name
  2. Truck driver who likes to drive in stocking feet
  3. Subject / verb agreement
  4. Laugh(ing) like a drain
  5. Good name?
  6. American 'save the world' films

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 27

  1. Itinerant job?
  2. Swimming halls and pools
  3. Mandarin Chinese: “Wŏ bú shì hěn qióng。“ vs. “Wŏ bú shì qióng。”
  4. Adding extra letters to words

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 28

  1. Shorthand and ignorance
  2. Planet / Star in Cantonese
  3. Russian translation
  4. latin-english translation
  5. Although, therefore, ....
  6. Salutations
  7. Frequency of Initial Letters of the Alphabet worldwide or on wikipedia
  8. Morphology of figures of speech
  9. Questions about Late Egyptian
  10. Origin of the word Skerrick
  11. That'll teach you to ...
  12. Chinese question

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 29

  1. Opposite sex insult
  2. Form of the name "Harbour Town": why the letter "u"?
  3. Expression [meaning of "dressed up to the sixes and nines"]
  4. Latin question
  5. Russian Song Lyrics

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 30

  1. Translating Articles
  2. MATTHEW HENSON
  3. Translation from Spanish or Portugeuse
  4. Age [use of hyphens]

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 31

  1. using commas
  2. Laying or lying
  3. Can someone identify this poem?
  4. Meaning of Máj
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