Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2017

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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 1

1. Taskrabbit and Upwork
2. sign off approvals

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 2

1. Which novel has a novelist protagonist who can't proceed beyond the first sentence of his novel?
2. Voiced and voiceless consonants in Russian

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 3

1. work on your presentation
2. Gender in early Indo-European
3. [Closed] Would Brits, when with their family or friends say something like "Can you pass me the salt?"
4. Proto Indo European excerpt

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 5

1. bring new ideas to the table
2. Tribal Shamanism vs Organized Religion?
3. Lysander and Lysandros

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 6

1. What is "乾亨行"
2. get smart to sth.
3. not at a soccer game instead of a client meeting
4. What language can be typed by more humans than any other?
5. Present participle of verbs ending in -ie

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 7

1. BBC oddity

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 8

1. leading to... or leading to the...
2. Esperanto for "cannabis activist"?
3. "true gun"

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 9

1. Japanese Pronunciation--1940s
2. Arabic mosque sign

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 10

1. Japanese to English

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 11

1. Cuneiform
2. What's the linguistic equivalent of a foreign accent in a written text?
3. Old names

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 12

1. Vegetable
2. Meaning of "scientist"
3. "You're gonna need two hands" sentence construction

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 13

1. Which one is true?
2. What are these adjective pairs called?
3. Concave base of a glass bottle

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 14

1. Marked Features?
2. "At the end of the day"

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 15

1. "Not good at mathematics"

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 16

1. Is there a term for this?
2. "couple" as singular noun or plural?
3. Which languages are we?
4. British/American English
5. Sandy bulls

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 17

1. Sequence of tenses for abstract statements
2. Take/bring home
3. Old map translation (1700s Latin/French/Spanish/Italian)
4. Early PIE Ergativity?

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 18

1. Origin of this saying?
2. German to English

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 21

1. Katakana characters
2. One subject two verbs
3. Turkish

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 22

1. Meaning of "traves"

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 23

1. Hempl's theory on G

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 24

1. grammar
2. Dictionary, name of items under a headword
3. Naturally Sound?

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 25

1. Surprise packet

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 26

1. "she's a Portsmouth"
2. how do you count number of words that you know?
3. I wish to know what texts other than the Tanakh and Talmud are sacred.

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 27

1. grammatical term
2. Colloquial Arabic imperatives

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 28

1. Word sought

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 29

1. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 30

1. Tower of Babel
2. Use of "portmanteau" for Japanese concatenated words
3. capitalization of plc

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 March 31

1. Imitation of Russian?
2. Obama is the 44th President?
3. Беринг (фон Беринг), Владимир Михайлович
4. In or at a roadstead?