Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2017

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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 1

1. How is Chinese writing taught to complete foreigners?
2. Jin Kazama
3. Scientists who study meteors
4. Jacques-Philippe Cornut

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 4

1. Distinction between b and p
2. Chinese watching soap opera with Chinese subtitles?

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 5

1. Lexemuel Ray Hesler

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 6

1. Word search
2. "would actually contain" versus "actually used to contain"
3. Consonant doubling in regional pronunciation of Latin
4. Where in North America is this the accent?

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 7

1. Expressions of degree

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 8

1. Can lo que es be used at the beginning of a sentence?

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 9

1. Loanwords vs codeswitching
2. "Making up words"
3. Pronunciation of 'integral'

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 10

1. Ken-ya, or Keen-ya?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 11

1. Red October pep talk
2. Latin mono-syllabic words ending in -x
3. Do verbs normally have more inflexions than nouns or other categories?
4. Fill out the blank space: X depends on Y, if and only if Y____ <verb/adjective>_____ X.

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 12

1. Term used for masculine concrete objects similar to la que es?
2. Translation from German needed

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 13

1. Icelandic ð

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 14

1. French negation.
2. How to make an actual double negative in Spanish?
3. Storybook vs anthology vs short story

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 15

1. Definite article before words as words

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 16

1. unfunded mandate
2. Question about French-language source on animated short project
3. Would Americans be los gringos or los mestizos?

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 19

1. Digits separator in Canadian French
2. Etymology of Georgian Nekresi
3. When can the adjective go before the noun in Spanish?

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 20

1. "it is unusual for a toponym to be shorter than its source"
2. wrought usage in a sentence

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 22

1. How distant do languages have to be to be considered bi, tri or multilingual?
2. In what circumstances, does one use él, ella, or ello as it?
3. How would William the Conqueror have pronounced “William”?
4. Use of "dotard" by Kim Jong-Un

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 23

1. Word usage
2. Public housing in the United Kingdom
3. Pronunciation of coyote

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 24

1. Learning English Pronunciation

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 25

1. Dutch
2. Oldest living language
3. Brammer

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 26

1. Did anyone ever make an abridged dictionary with an "easy cutoff"?

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 28

1. Do mention it!
2. Protesting against

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 29

1. Why does Cantonese have a written form, but Shanghainese, Wuhanese, and Hokkien do not?
2. Word for old parents