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February 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 1

  1. French and German
  2. Me and Thrak
  3. Joint = travel?
  4. Testing accuracy of language reconstruction techniques
  5. Number of morphemes in English
  6. "syllogistic bombs"
  7. Johnny Rotten
  8. Phone numbers
  9. What do actual Japanese people think of weeaboos?

February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 2

  1. Are palatal stops palatalized alveolar stops or palatalized velar stops?
  2. Arabic, Albanian, Russian, and Khmer questions
  3. "Validus" in Arabic

February 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 3

  1. This German Life?

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 4

  1. Alternate scripts for Latin
  2. School district Arabic, Russian, Vietnamese, and Korean help
  3. Past tense double-letter usage
  4. Liberated wife
  5. How and why did the Dutch R change?

February 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 5

  1. The word "but"
  2. Berry, bury, barry
  3. Present (Physically there)
  4. Is procreation a true synonym of conception?
  5. He/she/it/they when referring to an unborn child?
  6. Catalan to English translation
  7. What's the word for...

February 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 6

  1. Requested translation - Chinese to English
  2. Meaning of word Kashir or Kashar
  3. Abbreviations for Volts: alternating current and root mean squared

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 7

  1. Alumni - only graduates?

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 8

  1. japan's culture
  2. What is meant by the caption in :File:Tokugawa Ieyasu handprint.jpg?
  3. , before and in Am Eng
  4. German: rüstung vs panzer

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 9

  1. Plural of "series"
  2. Maldonado
  3. Hebrew-English relationship
  4. Indian English
  5. Old Albanian
  6. Advance(d) orders
  7. Arabic triliteral roots
  8. Future Past

February 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 10

  1. Alveolar lateral trill
  2. Minerai
  3. Bad French intolerance stereotype

February 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 11

  1. Tense vs. Time in Grammar
  2. Why is president referred as "she"?
  3. Using "God" in a nonreligious context?

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 12

  1. Kanji elements
  2. Japanese names.
  3. Marc Ouellet
  4. "aa" in German
  5. Du kannst mich mal
  6. Concepts or meaning outside of the scope of the English language

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 13

  1. "These ones" ?
  2. Quirky placement of modal verbs (American English)

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 14

  1. A frightfully fascinating question

February 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 15

  1. Secular variant of Legalism (theology)
  2. Attorney, lawyer, lawmaker?

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 16

  1. A Latin challenge

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 17

  1. "Go to hell!.."
  2. "Ask the devil's mother!.."

February 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 18

  1. Ruslan and Lyudmila
  2. ἔδει μὲν γὰρ τὴν δι᾽ ἐναντίας
  3. Arabic help

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 19

  1. Complete Set Character
  2. Iesus
  3. "...than what ..." in comparative expressions
  4. Happy-go-lucky hater
  5. mofusil

February 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 20

  1. Spanish help
  2. Euphemisms for "fried"
  3. Daryl Katz
  4. Pronunciation of oxymoron

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 21

  1. Part of speech for interjections
  2. L'Oréal
  3. What is the opposite of 'empirical'?
  4. German and French requests

February 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 22

  1. "conservative"
  2. His number of days has come

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 24

  1. Symbols in Latin text
  2. Request for Hausa Language in the world languages you mentioned in your web site.
  3. Trace, track, trail
  4. Definition of Syllable

February 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 25

  1. Spanish question
  2. Where is this sentence from
  3. What's the "Hand" means in "Hand of the Heavenly Brider".
  4. Pronunciation of colonel and lieutenant
  5. Ger>Eng. Unter Menschen
  6. How do translators know when to translate literally or figuratively?

February 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 26

  1. Yasui Santetsu
  2. Really hard to figure out phrase
  3. love handles
  4. Authority control

February 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 27

  1. be between husbands
  2. expectocrasy
  3. If not for him
  4. introductory paragraph

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 February 28

  1. Xavier in Arabic
  2. Is the Wikipedia on?
  3. Spanish punctuation
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