Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2015

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= August 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 1

1. Dynamics vs. tempo
2. Old vs. young and new
3. Profundicate
4. Linguistic skeuomorphism
5. Horrible posh accent

= August 2 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 2

1. "Age" versus "aged"
2. What do I call her?

= August 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 3

1. odd usage of the phrase 'as well'
2. "In all those fields, supportive evidence were to be found/ were found/ have been found".
3. "your first parlay"
4. MS Word changed short hyphen to long hyphen
5. Word for married woman's male sex partner outside of marriage?

= August 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 4

1. corrective discipline
2. "Escalation" in management
3. Kruti Dev Font Licensing
4. Subjunctive
5. Ancient Egyptian pronounciation
6. Traps in action

= August 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 5

1. "The Assyrian", "The Hun", etc

= August 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 6

1. "Canadian-based" or "Canada-based"?
2. present perfect tense
3. Apostrophe s
4. Curse words against the Virgin Mary in English?

= August 7 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 7

1. Chinese exonym for the American continent
2. Luau in British English

= August 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 8

1. Honesty demands that...
2. English transcription

= August 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 9

1. Demonym - Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, Scotsman, etc.
2. How is "Atlas V" pronounced predominantly in the Space Community?
3. Case Assignment in Fused Relatives Cross-Linguistically

= August 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 10

1. Bad, wicked, decadent - words with definitions and uses that mean the opposite of the primary definition
2. etymology of 'normal' as related to army study in Tennessee circa 1913-15
3. The government will announce today ...

= August 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 11

1. Japanese help: Students at the Japanese School of Istanbul

= August 12 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 12

1. multiscript collaboration about a thusand year old perfect magic square written in :en:Gurmukhi numerals

= August 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 14

1. "Ya ponyo"
2. Los Angeles abbreviation

= August 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 15

1. What is the correct wording? Me or I?
2. By default

= August 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 16

1. Genitive apostrophe

= August 18 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 18

1. Steve Jobs and Apple

= August 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 19

1. Korean: "노닐던"
2. Need help deciphering banking jargon

= August 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 20

1. Mongolian pronunciation of Оюу Толгой
2. "Good people" just mean "citizens"?
3. Nigerian English
4. Pun lost in translation in "Danger: Diabolik"?

= August 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 21

1. Elder / Eldest / Older / Oldest

= August 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 22

1. What is the correct wording? Me or I?
2. How to translate this phrase into Latin?

= August 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 23

1. Can write and read but can't speak the language

= August 24 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 24

1. Compare: and vs with
2. "Dog" and "nine"
3. Term for choosing a term that sounds more palatable to an audience?

= August 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 25

1. Any ambiguity in "Have you lived in the UK for 5 years ... ?" ?
2. Soft sign and palatalisation in Russian
3. Peggy is diminutive of Margaret?
4. Slovenian question
5. replacing a word with its initial (e.g. "F word")
6. Request for translation from Spanish

= August 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 26

1. Linguistic history of China

= August 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 29

1. Out-and-out
2. Transliteration of French into Hebrew

= August 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 30

1. Life hack?

= August 31 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 31

1. Antiquated Superlatives for Victorian-style poster.
2. How to write a numerical expression in words