Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2015

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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 1

1. Opposite adjectives in English
2. Comparative Phonemes

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 2

1. Chinese poem
2. Why are the s, sh, and th phonemes so prevalent in English?
3. Is there a word for this phenomenon?
4. Meaning of the term "collect prayer"

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 3

1. About Draft:Asociación Latinoamericana de Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios
2. Languages that have formal or polite terms borrowed from foreign languages
3. decedent hamburger
4. Border between simple and progressive
5. How do the French spell "Tricolour"?
6. Singular versus plural noun and verb

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 4

1. English subtitles for Ukranian(?)

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 5

1. Beaver Cleaver
2. Followup to Like how does "medicus" become "miège"?! It's a crazy language.

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 6

1. Japanese preference for purintā over purinta, etc
2. What are examples of 轉注 reciprocation meaning on Chinese character systems
3. Letter C in German
4. Letter Y in German
5. two thousand fifteen
6. Question about sexual interest
7. Comprehensive source on stress in America English for learners

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 7

1. Japanese grammar
2. Bring back my Bonnie to me

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 8

1. Identifying languages in the Charlie Hebdo "I am Charlie" PDF
2. IPA for Okinawan
3. German question
4. Jive followup (not a question)

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 9

1. ’In real terms'
2. Why "justice" and "France" don't have articles?
3. Conditional tenses of "can," "may," and "ought."
4. On/At the weekend
5. Why no "off board"?
6. xxxiii = chips?
7. Questions about punctuation in a prayer

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 10

1. Term for some stronger flavor that masks another flavor, often weaker, during short time intervals?

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 11

1. Charlie Hebdo
2. Broadcasted
3. Charlie Hebdo cartoon
4. Indians vs. Indians

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 12

1. Translation request: Hungarian to English

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 13

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "iconoclast"

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 14

1. Moving
2. English understanding problem

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 15

1. Romaji
2. Can "invention" and "discovery" be used interchangeably in this situation?
3. True meaning of the word Malad

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 16

1. Esperanto translation of Coxhead's "Academic Word List" ?
2. Japanese term for bowing in Judo
3. Arabic for French international school?
4. What is "Perutation?"

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 17

1. Pronunciation of 完全版
2. Another Arabic question

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 18

1. Infrastructure word
2. Translation of Latin titles

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 19

1. More Arabic
2. What is the word for this?

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 20

1. Biased towards or biased against?
2. Is it okay to have double contractions?

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 21

1. Secretary
2. Why is K^w a consonant?
3. Identification and textifiction of three images
4. What can cause stark idiolectal differences in the speech of children anent their parents?
5. Grammar question

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 22

1. danah boyd
2. Another Arabic inquiry

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 23

1. Greek keyboard
2. Proper verb tense
3. Spacing Modifier Letters
4. Seeking a French translation
5. Arabic question: Schmidt's Girls' College

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 24

1. Does verb conjugation serve any function in modern English?

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 25

1. Theonym
2. Another Arabic request

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 26

1. Using parentheses
2. Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd in English and Welsh
3. It's Greek to me
4. what is the meaning of swarajit (in bengali)?
5. Sorting Arabic names

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 28

1. How pronounce "CARMEN" ?
2. IPA & Stress

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 January 29

1. Infinitive-like gerund?!