Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2017

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December 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 1

  1. Word/expression meaning tomorrow+morning

December 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 2

  1. Old-fashioned window
  2. Kombinat
  3. Russian carbide
  4. By the side of the road
  5. "Long dog"
  6. German mitrechnen

December 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 5

  1. the meaning of tortoise's strategy
  2. Glottal stops in Aussie English (continued)
  3. Sauchiehall Street

December 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 7

  1. as respects instead of as regards?

December 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 8

  1. Items in a list
  2. Vehicle registration plates of Tunisia

December 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 9

  1. "This is not something [what / which / that] I would say [about] I am proud of" (once more...)

December 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 10

  1. types of literacy

December 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 11

  1. What is it called when a character has multiple readings depending on context?
  2. How does one translate these sentences into Spanish?

December 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 14

  1. Has anyone amalgamated German, French, Italian and Romansh into a constructed language?
  2. Roman Urdu
  3. Tone letters in minority languages of SW China
  4. Use of singular personal pronoun for a whole species/group/etc
  5. Can grammatically incorrect sentences translate across languages?
  6. Speak it well or poorly?

December 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 15

  1. Character amnesia

December 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 16

  1. Entitled

December 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 17

  1. What language is this in

December 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 18

  1. Comma or no comma?

December 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 19

  1. What is the antonym of "per se"?

December 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 20

  1. If English and Spanish are made official in the US, then would Spanish cease to be taught as a foreign language?

December 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 21

  1. Spanish b’s and p’s
  2. Follow-up grammar question
  3. Allons, enfants de la Patrie

December 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 22

  1. past partecipe of verb of XVIII (1795)
  2. "he acts as if he don't Care"

December 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 23

  1. 背徳漢
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Welsh "I am" question

December 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 24

  1. Pantchova

December 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 25

  1. Listing in Esperanto
  2. Change to the article Christmas

December 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 26

  1. Norwegian names with matronyms
  2. Son of my Father

December 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 27

  1. Nachts Scheint Die Sonne
  2. -er / norse r

December 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 28

  1. Two questions about Japanese alphabets
  2. Present perfect

December 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 29

  1. Little river cove with no flow
  2. Languages that don't require pronunciations in their dictionaries
  3. Homographs and word-repetition
  4. Looking for linguistic terms
  5. Anybody know how to lip read?
  6. Drawing a Ѯ

December 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 December 31

  1. You are worth the struggle.