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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 1

1. Helviti and Helvetii
2. Learn Language.
3. Wikipedia languages
4. Defensive Alliance, Offensive Alliance, Defensive and Offensive Alliance: What's the difference?

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 2

1. Generic term for Asian characters
2. High-Table origins of some old slang terms
3. Znüni and Zvieri

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 3

1. Fallacy?
2. How do languages that use symbols (like Chinese) deal with new or unfamiliar words?
3. Arabic language.
4. Is there a term to describe two words that, when pronounced together, create ambiguity as to what the two words are?
5. Good style
6. Is it sheer laziness

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 4

1. Paragraph numbering
2. "bless you" in Japanese
3. -ear- pronounced -ar-
4. Help with Arabic
5. The meaning of "Kohad" in different languages
6. Name of grammatical relation

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 5

1. Using a lower case letter for all caps names containing "Mc" or "Mac"
2. translation from estonian wikipedia
3. Logical connective
4. Pleiades in Old English and Celtic languages
5. What's the meaning?
6. Statements versus promises
7. Better word for "interrupted"
8. Silent G in Ecclesia Gnostica?

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 6

1. Tournament Seeding
2. Recipe
3. List of Popes
4. The Cia-Cia writing system
5. Rusty Latin
6. question
7. Rose Bay Willow Herb

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 7

1. "Tomorrow, when the war began"
2. Language surveys
3. Closing a letter with " Sd/- "
4. Seeking a philosophical motto for an egg cup
5. Need a speech word for wrongdoing of another
6. A tense question

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 8

1. Pronunciation of Korean?
2. Pronunciation of Richard Paget?
3. "Word waterfall" in Icelandic
4. Could "thing" in Isaiah 55:11 have been "object"?
5. Tyw7
6. portugese profanity

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 9

1. Word for too hot food frustration
2. Dollar sign
3. small arabic translation
4. History of Berber latin alphabet
5. A kind of lexical gap?
6. Japanese quote
7. Plural of "formula"

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 10

1. Polygons
2. Wishings
3. Willy nilly
4. Think

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 11

1. Polish Tenses
2. title of German mathematical paper

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 12

1. (at) home
2. A question for US-English speakers of the eastern coast
3. Children's radio story from the late 50s or early 60s
4. Plural in Polish language

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 13

1. can i get hindi edition
2. What word did the Chinese of the Medieval period (particularly the 12th c.) use to refer to Europeans?
3. Äöü(ß)
4. Gothic day names

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 14

1. Chinese classifier
2. German pronounciation
3. Use of past participle
4. Argue

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 15

1. Chinese
2. French Phonology
3. What
4. Finnish pronunciation
5. What's the term for using something outside its purpose?
6. "February 2009 anti-clerical demonstration in Hong Kong"
7. Asfashf "hipped-gabled"

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 16

1. "two cents plain"
2. vowel length and gemination in Hebrew dialects
3. advance organisers
4. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
5. What is the preferred term, if there's one, for a person who asks a question here?
6. -ant or -ent?
7. Translation to Russian

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 17

1. What does this mean?
2. Pronunciation of "blind"
3. Roofs and rooves, and whom
4. Indonesian assistance
5. Under or underneath, or beneath, or below?
6. Correct form
7. sdf "politics organs"

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 18

1. Yiddish word
2. Hitting below the water line
3. "Five more years till carousel"
4. "Welcome" in modern aramaic / syriac

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 19

1. quebec/canadian word for pacifier
2. Appropriate business email sign-off in English, bonus points for Chinese version as well
3. Latinise the term 'creative juice' please?
4. 'runs in the family' jokes?
5. French "unnecessary" sh-like sound after some words
6. Republic of South Africa being referred to as S. Africa or similar

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 20

1. Books about learning how to speak without hesitations
2. "Science is a verb now"
3. So glad to find this
4. Same Etymology, Different Pronunciation

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 21

1. Variant spellings in early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania
2. Translations needed
3. Lego
4. Happy Christmas
5. Grammatically correct but impossible sentence
6. I'm sick of the high-hat
7. Inglourious Basterds

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 22

1. Ancient Chinese
2. How is Wikipedia pronounced?
3. Dutch naming convention question
4. The word "damascan"
5. Translation - Switzerland
6. Earthy man
7. Mathematically possible
8. "Everloving" as an oath
9. Monduan
10. Pronunciation of Rudolf Caracciola

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 23

1. Leaving out the word "the" when English is not one's primary language
2. Google translation of "Petit Papa Noël"
3. Translations

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 24

1. stable
2. Pokémon
3. Ambiguous sentence
4. Afrikaans given names

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 25

1. Schwa vocalization in Hebrew pronunciations
2. Which one?
3. Pronunciation of Zdzisław
4. Combining similar syllables in spoken english?
5. "Slippy"
6. Google as a verb
7. Swedish question
8. Translation from Czech
9. "Jackpot"

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 26

1. "Short a" in American English

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 27

1. 전용훈
2. Tongan orthography

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 28

1. German orthography
2. Jokes about Scotland/Scottish People in the German Language
3. Best textbook for beginner learning Italian?
4. Electronic comparison of pronounciation
5. Mandarin and Rosetta Stone
6. Which versus who
7. Nicknames in the English language

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 29

1. English to Chinese translation (simplified and wade giles please, pinyin could help) (Mandarin & Cantonese please)
2. Is there a test to determine the number of words in your vocabulary?
3. Delta
4. Translations
5. Unions et descendance
6. Rothschild
7. Will Cantonese go extinct eventually?
8. question plus a plea

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 30

1. "Grappling" as an adjective
2. Norwegian translation requested
3. Non-Profit Organization
4. Basic phrases in Irish
5. "Ellipses" in writing
6. Is there a word for this?
7. Difference between an aim and an objective
8. Need a word
9. Capitalization
10. Cryptic Crossword Clues

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 31

1. College vs. University
2. Translation please
3. Fly/Fliege
4. english-chinese
5. German word
6. "The bigger ___, the smaller ___" is IS necessary?
7. What's better: "a/the cow of David", or: "a/the cow of David's" ?
8. Aroud the corner
9. "Lisses"