Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2016

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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 1

1. New Oxford dictionary
2. Chinese references in Bertha Sneck
3. Relatives

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 2

1. Odd punctuation for the subtitle for the film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2. Good sources of poetry commented
3. What does the phrase "goodness and light" mean in this context? Update: the phrase was "sweetness and light".

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 3

1. Comprehensive book about language features
2. Accented forms of English...

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 4

1. Use of 'junior', 'III' etc in US names
2. "Octember"

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 5

1. German sources for Panama Papers article
2. What does unjoined Arabic "feel" like?
3. Irregular comparative and superlative
4. Drama- Vocal styles for audio-plays.

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 6

1. Cases in Esperanto
2. American English Language
3. North Korean name for Vietnam
4. Does Pachelbel have anything to do with Easter?
5. Does the word "niggard" have to die?
6. Temperatures get higher or lower, not warmer or cooler

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 7

1. Unexpected hanging paradox
2. It's all Greek Dutch to me

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 8

1. What are the reasons/advantages of reading and writing from left-to-right versus from right-to-left?
2. British "chemist"
3. Most languages spoken per person
4. When an action (verb) occurred in the past, but is written in the present tense (historical present tense / narrative present tense)

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 9

1. Manual keigo
2. Hiragana#Table_of_hiragana's completeness
3. Are the following sentences accepted in the spoken English language?

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 10

1. What is she saying?
2. No puedo cambiar la lengua de Wikipedia

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 11

1. What did "lorry" mean in 1940s US?

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 12

1. Can English make a distinction between two different kinds of When-questions, about the statement: "Yesterday they believed, he would die tomorrow" ?
2. Wireless in Animal Farm
3. Are all the cooks gone?
4. hallelujah, etc.

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 13

1. Dutch Brabantse Pijl, why not Brabant Pijl

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 14

1. Are Yiddish and German mutually intelligible?
2. IPA question

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 15

1. Sou desu ne.
2. Young adult fiction vs young adult
3. Jchekovitch spelling

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 16

1. What is the proper formatting of date ranges for two partial years?

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 17

1. multikulti
2. Mesopotamian name for Egypt
3. Language of Wikipedia templates
4. Chinese translation needed for new article?
5. Controversy around definition of present perfect?
6. Go figure in Australia

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 18

1. Bilingualism in Canada
2. list of verbs in different languages
3. translation of the article on "leverage buyout" in French
4. Why no "distrustworthy"?

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 19

1. Help from Hungarian speaker
2. Strategic walking
3. Rajita

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 20

1. Essay
2. the differance

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 21

1. Dictionary with words grouped by topic

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 22

1. Language on sign
2. Period for sentence end after period for abbreviation end?

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 23

1. What is the part of speech? What is the possessive form for "which" or "that" when applied to non-humans?

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 24

1. Finnish / Swedish name order
2. Temple
3. A Swedish, a Norwegian, and a Dane go into a bar
4. language change
5. Request for a translation

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 25

1. Why synonyms?
2. MC Edge
3. "to kill a mockingbird" "killing a mockingbird"

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 26

1. English ⟨th⟩, European Spanish ⟨ce, ci, z⟩ and [θ], [ð]

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 27

1. A Commons root
2. Besides Turkish (and maybe Azeri) and Modern Hebrew, are there other languages whose word for "and" is pronounced [ve]?
3. Complete vs. completed
4. Style guides, stacked punctuation
5. International English
6. Inward and outward-facing circles of people

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 28

1. Order of sentence, putting one element in the front

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 29

1. translation Italian-English

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 April 30

1. translation Italian-English
2. Question about brand translations
3. Translation from Arabic? to English
4. Language used in Minion (film)?