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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 1

1. Hungarian Verbs
2. "I love me" vs. "I love myself"
3. Pronunciation of "k" in Swedish
4. Is English losing the distinction between the nominative and the accusative?

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 2

1. Siyahamba in German and Italian
2. Refer oneself by given name

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 4

1. spelling of '"sunami" , sinami, sanami. meaning a violent tidal wave found in news items last year.

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 5

1. about wikipedia
2. What do you call phonetic nativization of borrowed words?
3. Pronunciation of "New Zealand"
4. ik heb hem geslagen
5. How Similar is Modern Greek to Ancient Greek?

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 6

1. Half/full-assed question
2. Cut in line, as opposed to "But In Line."
3. whose communication is more crippled?
4. tones in hist.ling.

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 7

1. Grammar question about possessive case
2. Chicago Style

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 9

1. Noun cases

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 11

1. Chinese help - 猿仙松林 or 松林猿仙?
2. hairy yellow sparrow wasp
3. Jamaican lingo
4. Wikipedia changed to Simplified Chinese as the default of varieties of Chinese locales?

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 12

1. Russian possessive adjective in -ina
2. What does everyone say in this Fall of Gaddafi video?
3. Nomenclature for a simulation typeface
4. More about spänn/spenn
5. Largest language without monolingual speakers?
6. What is the pictured Aboriginal language?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 13

1. Correct pronoun
2. "me and you" or "you and me"?

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 14

1. German noun genders
2. Origin of the 'try and do it' construction?
3. Curious and suspicious adjectives
4. past/passed its "best by" date?

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 15

1. "Adepti...Regna Celestia potiti"
2. Double posted

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 16

1. New page in English
2. Subjunctive case?
3. Tankies
4. Translation help
5. place name pronunciation
6. Swallow the old tongue
7. Aspie in Spanish?

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 17

1. 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺
2. Prepositions
3. Can "gutting" or "gutted" refer to road construction?
4. Store "special", in Europe
5. Do italian priests address all people as "tu", or is it just television?
6. I find that term to be offensive
7. Misaimed description
8. Substratum in Swedish?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 18

1. Asterisks after a word
2. Joke Name
3. Newly invented spellings for children's names

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 19

1. Sermilik Glacier and Sirmilik National Park
2. Symbol

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 20

1. chinese
2. Follow-up on unusual children's names

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 21

1. car insurance
2. Chinese characters
3. "Reverse Definition(?)"

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 23

1. Is Japanese an Altaic Language
2. Dr. Barnes' Eyemart Express
3. Translation request

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 24

1. zero article?
2. Plot of Chinese movie
3. "Ahom" in Assamese script
4. How to pronounce inuktitut sounds (syllables) ᔨ, ᔩ (ji), ᔪ, ᔫ (ju), ᔭ and ᔮ (ja )?
5. Confusing
6. AAAT Speed index pronounciation

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 25

1. Llama mama

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 26

1. Classificaton of proto-languages

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 27

1. Italian question
2. "To google" or "to Google"?
3. How to formulate a sourced lack of source?

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 28

1. the phrase "You don't talk about anything"
2. Latin translation needed
3. Portuguese help re: :File:Af447diag.svg
4. Navajo language

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 29

1. Arabic song lyrics
2. Which language?

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 30

1. a or an for words starting with h
2. Khud = ?
3. Translation: German to English
4. "Ni" vs "du" in Swedish

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 31

1. synchronic differences in basic word order
2. How can a sign language have local accents?