Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2017

Welcome to the Wikipedia Language Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is a monthly archive index. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 1

1. Apartments

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 2

1. I'm looking for an adjective:
2. Tamara de Lempicka: her surname as pronounced in France and America

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 3

1. I need another word for "nontrivial", in the expression "nontrivial assumption".
2. Scatty (Irish?)
3. Do animated emojis improve consistency of interpretations?

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 4

1. ¿Investigador o auxiliar de investigación?
2. Typing one space or two?

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 5

1. Hard or hardly??

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 7

1. Why did people historically use so many fancy vocabulary terms and long sentences?

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 8

1. How much of Esperanto was created by Zamenhof

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 9

1. Is it 42nd or 42d??
2. North Korea BEST NOT make any more threats

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 10

1. Comma after "in other instances"

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 11

1. Is a heifer a nulliparous cow or virgin cow?

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 12

1. "Inuit" in Inuktitut

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 13

1. Looking for a word in Arabic
2. 40 in Russian

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 14

1. Order: However

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 16

1. Help break up a very long sentence

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 17

1. Yankee go home? Or Yankees go home?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 18

1. Which one has a negative connotation - heathen or pagan?
2. Translation from German wanted

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 19

1. vox populi vs. voci populi
2. at vs for
3. Sábado and Saturday
4. "Insanitary" vs "unsanitary"

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 20

1. ESL accreditation group for China?
2. German town - Ölper or Oelper?

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 21

1. Why do Australians say "Coo-ee?"

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 22

1. Origin of "the cucumbers of peace"
2. French lyrics (paroles de chanson) of three French songs
3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 22#What_does_.7B.7Blang.7C2.3Dד.27.7D.7D_stand_for.3F|What does [ד'] Error: {{Lang}}: missing language tag (help) stand for?]]

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 23

1. ¢ vs ⌀
2. How to create a new article in another language

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 24

1. Languages easiest to learn for English-Chinese bilingual native speakers?
2. Latin. Does anybody here understand Latin well?
3. Is it rude to say "bon appetit" to an actual French person?

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 25

1. DOP

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 28

1. About Draft:Where are my friends (nursery rhyme)
2. Do right-to-left languages make writing easier for left-handers?
3. Why do we have the letter X despite it not having a special sound??
4. Chinese characters
5. What kind of (British?) accent is [http://www.kan.org.il/Program/?catId=1111 this]?

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 29

1. Does philo- words automatically mean a person is not part of the thing but "loves" it as an outsider?
2. Have, Haber, Happening

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 30

1. Þa wealas ne cwǽdon on Lǽdene sprǽce [Why do the Welsh traditionally speak a Celtic language?]
2. Bergensk?
3. Sasuke Uchiha