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= January 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 1

1. Central Asia and Azerbaijani languages Turkish and Russian
2. Is "lost" in Latin "perditus"?
3. "Danish pasting"
4. Need your help translating the following document
5. linguistics
6. Vexillonerdologically (not to mention philatelonumismatovexillonerdologically)

= January 2 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 2

1. What's the go with hyphens and dashes?
2. 的 and spanish de
3. Tongue
4. Terms for deer
5. Basque Dialectical Differences

= January 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 3

1. The use of the verb "drink" to automatically and assumably mean "drink alcohol [without specifying alcohol]"
2. Radicals vs phonetic components
3. Alvarado
4. English names that sound like prostitutes' names

= January 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 4

1. Translation
2. Japanese translation help
3. Japanese 'r'
4. As-clauses in English
5. Small-c vs. capital C
6. When you were young

= January 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 5

1. How does the American accent make a distinction between "can't take" and "can take" (the stress being on "can")?
2. Welsh and cornish languages

= January 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 6

1. Latin translation ("Let the just proceed forth")
2. Rhyming phrases
3. Biannual as a noun for a half-yearly journal?
4. learning help
5. The development of Proto-Germanic -eu- in Dutch/Middle Low German
6. English genitive case of 'Chancellor'
7. Arabic: Attijariwafa Bank
8. Steve McLaren

= January 7 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 7

1. Arabic transcription

= January 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 8

1. Interpreting lyrics

= January 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 9

1. Pi/pie
2. Name of fallacy/rhetorical technique
3. Fake middle English
4. Similarity between spanish and english?

= January 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 10

1. Using the verb dominate
2. OPTIMIZATION
3. British place name Slurvian pronunciations
4. Russian word translation
5. Hello "SNOTRAG", goodbye "PORNOMAG"
6. War of Succession

= January 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 11

1. OE El-ge --> Ely
2. Are You Grammatically Correct Tonight?
3. logo21.gif
4. Sentences that mean the same thing and sound similar in unrelated languages
5. Japanese pun in Final Fantasy VI, can someone explain it?

= January 12 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 12

1. Wright or wrong?
2. ASCII Media Works
3. English pun on faithful
4. Eastern Arabic numerals
5. is 'liable to' standard English?

= January 13 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 13

1. Intervocalic alveolar flapping in "Importance"
2. Romanian
3. Chinese
4. Rainforest layers in Chinese
5. What is the correct english form?
6. Antonym for "Envy"
7. Quran translation in some Europe language

= January 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 14

1. Anti-semitic
2. In which month was Giorgio Baldizzone born?
3. Please explain this joke
4. Korean help

= January 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 15

1. It would be remiss of me
2. A few lines in English, describing an old man. Help me improve my english and my vocabulary ?

= January 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 16

1. Maybe
2. Source translation needed from French
3. Extra H
4. Khasi

= January 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 17

1. Original sounds of ancient languages
2. Strange Limerick
3. Meaning
4. Three syllable three letter words
5. "A Few Words"
6. English
7. MLA Quotations

= January 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 19

1. î and â in Romanian—what happens if there's a c or g about?
2. Japanese
3. The Port Authority's Exact Words
4. "Both...and..." or "...so..."?
5. What is the longest English word that can in theory be written by repeatedly pressing the same key on a phone with an E.161 keyboard?
6. The words "Sodomy" and "Fornication" and "Adultery" -- fancy words for anal/oral sex, premarital sex, and extramarital sex?
7. English vowels

= January 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 20

1. Talking products and shopping stores
2. Pronunciation
3. Greek, German, English
4. at (the) Technische Universität Berlin
5. Japanese screenshot text to English

= January 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 21

1. /eɪ/ and /ɛ/
2. Apostrophes and soft signs

= January 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 22

1. the 17th century equivalent of 'decor'
2. Italian help
3. Pwned vs. Iwned
4. Spelling of Ngũgĩ from Gikuyu

= January 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 23

1. Chinese help
2. Killing me softly with his definition
3. Use of "without" to mean outside. Is it now outdated?
4. (The) Name Foundation Center for/of International Production Systems
5. Just a point of view about "American" categorized people =)
6. who run the world
7. singular or plural? Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit is/are?
8. Chinese reading help

= January 24 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 24

1. Kishmish
2. Sentence language subject to two meanings?
3. Japanese help
4. life vs lives

= January 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 25

1. Spanish subjunctive question
2. I don't have to vs I must not
3. Smash the granny
4. Yes I do

= January 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 26

1. Groundhog Day
2. Polish to English questions
3. what do we use the prague school for?
4. Spanish help: translating "cool smiles"

= January 27 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 27

1. English to Japanese questions
2. I should be getting wikipedia in English, I'm in the United States and always got it in English, but now I get it in Chinese it only happens with Firefox browser
3. John Boehner
4. Parenthetical German puns
5. "Accountred"
6. US or UK?
7. prə'naʊnt.sɪŋ on the cover of Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary

= January 28 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 28

1. French translation
2. unintended consequences of a "rape" comment

= January 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 29

1. Fictive judge in Burmese "fables": Princess Learned-in-the-Law

= January 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 30

1. meaning of expression "fur and wode"
2. Trawsfynydd
3. Flames, shoes and brakes
4. Dear [I don't know your first name]?

= January 31 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 January 31

1. "Of course"
2. Hebrew