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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 1

1. Seeing the forest for the trees
2. Citation parameters
3. Big meal?
4. NAKAMA
5. Yes, they'll?
6. American English
7. Metaphysics
8. Learning the Proto-Indo-European language

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 2

1. Question about term
2. Hauling ass
3. Translation of 18th-century Danish text
4. Multilingual list of Indian kin terms
5. Arguement

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 3

1. "If I was" vs. "If I were"

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 4

1. French pronunciation
2. TEOTWAWKI
3. "why" as an -- interjection, is that really it?
4. Trying to recall an idiom
5. Just how rude is the Arabic phrase 'imshi'?

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 5

1. Compering?
2. Ubuntu

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 6

1. "Front-loaded" antonym?
2. Tense in reported speech
3. For Latin speakers, can you find examples of "conscius sibi"?
4. American English (2)
5. German advanced learner's dictionary?
6. Az anyanyelv tisztelete
7. Polish: Etymology of the word lęk

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 7

1. Initialising Mac, Mc and O' surnames
2. mah nishtanah
3. Translation of pietatis causa
4. Translation for Spanish text
5. Longest place name in South America
6. Shetland language or dialect

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 8

1. Delas/delas Alas?
2. Medieval manuscript terminology
3. "Sentenced to jail time"

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 9

1. Essentially. When is it correct to use it?
2. Custom bespoke - Redundant?
3. What are these words called?

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 10

1. Punjabi
2. Is "onto" one word
3. Language extinction - a recent phenomenon?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 11

1. Yup'ik nasals
2. "personifactory"?
3. Norwegian translation

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 12

1. Meanings from word boundary ambiguity
2. Of
3. Where are you at?
4. "Innovative"
5. Crêpe
6. Nice/niece/knees
7. Phonemic/phonetic language
8. Spanish and Latin etymology

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 13

1. Poker dots
2. Avestan letter

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 14

1. "as jealous as a spaniard" - simile
2. Absolutely

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 15

1. Present Perfect Tense
2. Latin: Pro bono publico
3. Continuity problem in His Dark Materials series (specifically, Once Upon a Time in the North?

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 16

1. Happy in the UK
2. Learning a new language
3. Of "something" v Possessive Case

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 17

1. Une famille bourgeoise républicaine
2. French question
3. Root origination
4. Predicate Adjectives in Russian and other slavic languages with zero copula
5. Help needed with Chinese map
6. Translation into Russian
7. How do I say Jasmine Rice in German?
8. question to ask yourself to determine if you're in a dream
9. Building name (Korean)

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 18

1. Explaining when to use in, at, on and into to someone whose native language is Semitic
2. Crossword puzzle help
3. Whose English is most "authentic"?
4. English names for forms of baby motion

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 19

1. Cascella
2. currently pursuing her PhD (etc.) at/ from a certain university?
3. Oojimy?
4. What language would be practical?
5. Is kennen lernen treated as if it were one word?

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 20

1. Translation wanted over at the Science desk
2. Glossary of terms

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 21

1. Translating Ionesco
2. Etymology of patent leather
3. Regional accents of Northern Ireland
4. BBC's at it again
5. asterisks for multiplication

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 22

1. Freshman, sophmore, junior, senior
2. Studying English
3. Hungarian Translation
4. "carpet" vs. "carpets"

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 23

1. Dash it all man, what's a Canuck to do?
2. Grammer (sic)
3. Deeply popular

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 24

1. India in Himachali
2. passive to be?
3. Wrong and right on languages

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 25

1. Medical term: Appropriate morpheme for "interstitial fluid"?
2. English Term...requires citations?
3. One's "calling" ?
4. places one has visited, in German

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 26

1. Name for a Welsh speaker?
2. how not to end on a preposition

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 27

1. Rhotic-related stuff, 'r's where they shouldn't be
2. zebra line as a media jargon?
3. Bizness/Bijiness in Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase
4. "Bugger off"
5. Wood trimmer (person)
6. Name translation

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 28

1. Misspelling one word in Urdu
2. Temperatures in Japanese

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 29

1. translation needed
2. Question about Chinese reading
3. “Glitze Glatze Glotze”
4. Russian: troika and perestroika

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 September 30

1. to discharge a responsibility
2. IPA for Paul Robeson
3. Japanese: McD toy translation