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2018-08-22What are some good books to help a friend through mother's cancer?
2018-08-09Henry James quote. Bogus or legit?
2018-08-03Why promote an old book?
2018-07-14"""Chinese"" proverb source and translation?"
2018-06-26BALE-ay vs. bale-AY
2018-06-02Russian oligarch
2018-02-25Help me find this dimly remembered poem?
2018-01-05What is passive voice, and why is it so bad?
2017-12-17Can you identity this or translate this Russian/other Cyrillic language?
2017-12-10Fabulous Florentines
2017-11-14Half of the class are women? Is women?
2017-10-10"Do ""psychics"" who perform cold readings believe in their own ""powers""?"
2017-08-16Help me be a better informed opponent of Islamophobia.
2017-08-05Really good historical fiction?
2017-07-08Can you identify this Impressionist-y painting?
2017-06-04Interesting, recent non-fiction that is available on Kindle
2017-06-02I don't drink...or do I?
2017-05-08Book recommendations for extended travel in southeast Europe
2017-05-08Book recommendations for extended travel in southeast Europe
2017-05-07bounded compassion among buddhists
2017-03-31Best intro books to Russian history
2017-03-31Religious scholars: help me find commentaries on Bible stories
2017-03-31Best intro books to Russian history
2017-03-30Best intro books to Russian history
2017-03-25How would Jerome K. Jerome have pronounced Montmorency?
2017-01-06Against Athens
2016-10-25How do I handle this HR issue?
2016-10-19Daily life in the USSR
2016-10-19Daily life in the USSR
2016-09-28Help me remember this weird poem
2016-09-12"Is there an English verb that means ""to go mad""? "
2016-07-30Should I go on a trip with my relatively new partner?
2016-07-14can it be over now
2016-06-22You can't make me! o(>< )o
2016-06-06Help flesh out an itinerary for eight days in Taiwan
2016-05-02How to age and not become mentally/socially rigid and cranky?
2016-04-26Need sleepable earplug suggestions.
2016-04-11Which alphabet is this?
2016-03-29My husband won't listen to me talk about work
2016-03-21Books on reading premodern texts from a modern perspective
2016-03-20"Looking for examples of ""Ostranenie"" -or- Defamiliarizaion"
2016-02-21Need a Russian translation, please.
2015-12-25Trying to interpret cause of death on a death certificate from 1922
2015-12-19Deciding whether to resume contact with an estranged friend
2015-12-14I was really hoping you'd tell me that story about the thing again
2015-11-26Book Suggestions for Casanova/Rabelais/Nabokov Reader
2015-11-22Break-ups, exes, anger and forgiveness - a question!
2015-11-11I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation
2015-10-01Secret Peas
2015-09-30Examples of literary microphenomenology or deep-point-of-view?
2015-08-06I am lost in search of a book
2015-06-22"Grammar Help! Dealing with ""s"" with nouns and possesion"
2015-05-30What is as old as he is?
2015-05-17"Would Wittgenstein distinguish between ""all that"" and ""that which""?"
2015-04-04What are the rules for explanatory notes?
2015-03-09Romanize me!
2015-02-12" What is this ""to""?"
2015-01-31Can anyone translate the Georgian lyrics to this Giya Kancehli song?
2015-01-26Russian genitive vs feminine; or, is someone wrong on the Internet?
2014-12-23JazzFilter
2014-12-07Did Guatemala really ban the Magnificat in the 1980s?
2014-11-07Brother in Law tried to stop my wedding. How do I deal w Thanksgiving?
2014-11-02What French movie is playing in this short?
2014-10-31What are the French neighbours saying?
2014-09-12Poem ID: two lovers meet in a shop and touch hands over handkerchiefs
2014-09-04Why is Russia?
2014-08-27"What is the proper pronunciation of the name ""Zijad"". "
2014-08-211970s science fiction short story about a young mother going crazy?
2014-08-15Immigrant parents won't drop the subject of their former country, help
2014-08-13Jazz Duo Albums
2014-08-09French immersion school with Anglophone parents - terrible idea?
2014-08-08'I-90' or 'The 90'?
2014-06-16Where does 'verse originate?
2014-06-11What is the greatest recording of the Blue Danube Waltz?
2014-05-29Ottoman Turk translation help?
2014-05-12What is this (probably) Lithuanian last name supposed to be?
2014-05-04Studying Russian Literature in France
2014-04-29Not sure about 5 year relationship... What do I really want?
2014-04-11Books that allude to books that do not exist.
2014-03-07"What's the origin of the phrase ""Christ, what an asshole""?"
2014-01-19Books (or documentaries) to teach me to watch films intelligently?
2013-12-31"A ""Great"" Anniversary"
2013-12-22This sentence is an example of the passive voice that I'm desperately
2013-12-16How do I find out if a foreign work has ever been published in English?
2013-12-12Lorem Ipsum mug for my boss (anyone read Latin?) and gift advice.
2013-11-20Adrienne Rich poem
2013-09-07Book about the Stones.
2013-08-29"Is this really an ""ancient Chinese proverb""?"
2013-08-05"""That which I do not forgive in you lies unforgiven within myself."""
2013-07-16"Dostoevsky's Novel ""The Idiot"""
2013-07-06What's this lovely Greek song?
2013-06-20hyphens vs. en dashes
2013-05-28What other languages have easy to learn written forms?
2013-05-11Decent introductions to Laotian history?
2013-04-18Polylingual Fiction and Poetry
2013-03-12A race by any other slur
2013-02-03Hokis - Armenian slang?
2013-02-03Hokis - Armenian slang?
2013-01-02How would you tell someone else to pronounce this phrase?
2012-12-23Calling number 9...
2012-11-27History of Austria-Hungary?
2012-11-18Political Dynasties Forbidden by Law?
2012-10-25Trees: Latin translation and etymology
2012-10-09Rotten Tomatoes for Jazz?
2012-09-29Can somebody help me track down the source claiming Leonid Kantorovich was responsible for safety on the Road of Life during the Siege of Leningrad?
2012-09-14What is the best Croatian-English dictionary for a Croatian student in the US?
2012-09-08It was the most extraordinary line I ever stood on.
2012-09-05Help a kid learn Spanish when you don't know yourself?
2012-08-28Mystery writing on teapot
2012-08-23Which dictionaries are prescriptivist/descriptivist?
2012-08-14WW1 Documentaries and Books
2012-08-06Tardii? Tardisis? Tardisopoli? THEE TARDIS!!
2012-08-02What is this mystery language?
2012-07-26Translate Me This
2012-06-04Outdoor Swimming in the Hudson Valley
2012-05-26Help with noisy neighbor's loud music.
2012-05-17Grammar correction in older fiction?
2012-05-05Help me find online resources for how to pronounce difficult words
2012-05-05Help me find online resources for how to pronounce difficult words
2012-05-05H like Humor and Hurt
2012-05-04H like Humor and Hurt
2012-05-04H like Humor and Hurt
2012-05-01Living with my Wife's Cats
2012-03-21"Is ""la alcachofa"" correct?"
2012-03-16Don't let the shrimps kill me!
2012-02-27Women in Islamic Cultures Book Suggestions
2012-02-16From Russia with [illicit] love
2012-01-25What is the etymology of the word 'prepend'?
2012-01-22Local needs advice on where to eat in Princeton, NJ
2011-12-25I usually think and write good.
2011-12-13My kingdom for an atlas...
2011-12-08You say ukuleleist; I say ukulelist.
2011-11-28Why didn't those crazy kids get together earlier?
2011-11-18Help me beanplate baby's last name
2011-11-11Oh Mr. President!
2011-09-30Can you solve this Latin grammar puzzle?
2011-09-29Can you solve this Latin grammar puzzle?
2011-09-28Collapse Of Soviet Union
2011-09-21"""to be"" or not ""to be"""
2011-08-13Who is admiring who?
2011-07-18The jerk store called; they haven't carried that model since 1964
2011-06-02RUSSIA
2011-05-31Spelling Post Approval
2011-05-26Books on the Siberian gulag, ca 1939?
2011-05-23How do you phrase a dedication in Russian?
2011-05-15Whiskey, War and Whigs - Great Books On The Founding of the United States?
2011-04-30Good translations of Cervantes and Tolsoy?
2011-04-20"Where did ""as all get-out"" come from?"
2011-04-19"Where did ""as all get-out"" come from?"
2011-03-27Did they ever build children into bridges?
2011-03-14Looking for books on labor history. (Focusing on anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, communes, etc.)
2011-03-02Watson! Komdu hingað! Ég þarf þig!
2011-02-28Watson! Komdu hingað! Ég þarf þig!
2011-02-24Do linguistics grad students have time to breathe?
2011-02-21Years of Travail: The Birth of Labor and Radical Politics in the US 1870 - 1945
2011-02-08The Times They Are a-Changin'
2011-01-31lemony, lemony, lemony nuns
2011-01-23And then I realized I was warping young minds, not shaping them
2010-12-11Personal Campaign Finance Reform
2010-12-04Once upon a time, there was a language textbook with a small, boxy declension table...
2010-11-13Did Marx come to disavow aspects his earlier writings, i.e. The German Ideology?
2010-10-27"Lyrics of Gesualdo's ""Tenebrae""?"
2010-10-24Sun Ra recommendations?
2010-10-11How can people in totalitarian societies seem so happy?
2010-10-05Why doesn't the OED have better coverage of mathematical terms?
2010-08-27I want to learn more about jazz!
2010-08-21"Help me find this ""skeptic Marxist"""
2010-08-12help me keep my cheap wine from becoming expensive vinegar
2010-07-25oy yoy yoy
2010-07-11Am I an idiot or is she too grudgemental?
2010-07-08"Iowa - ""the shining star of radicalism""?"
2010-07-05A walk in the hills
2010-06-21"Latin for ""and this too shall pass"" please? "
2010-06-05Help with hyphenated adjectives, plz
2010-05-01My mind just went kaput
2010-04-09Quranic Grammar Headache!
2010-03-23Where can I eat good barbecue in Gastonia, NC?
2010-03-16Mame-loshn?
2010-02-24If a customer service professional is wearing a nametag, should I use thier name?
2010-02-16My family left Aleppo in 1912 + I'd like to go back
2010-01-12I'll make you a trade, but am I saying this backward?
2010-01-12I'll make you a trade, but am I saying this backward?
2010-01-07Graduate school is hell; what is a job an ex-grad-student can possibly get?
2010-01-06Is this sentence grammatically correct?
2009-12-15Need to edit
2009-12-06Late Antiquity goes to the movies (and the bookstore).
2009-11-25That is the question.
2009-11-24Help me subjugate the subjunctive, or I might get moody.
2009-11-16How can I get better at reading aloud?
2009-11-13Are adverbs mere adjective spinoffs?
2009-11-05What is this tune?
2009-10-23This made so much sense last night while falling asleep
2009-09-17What are the great patterning works of literature?
2009-09-17What are the great patterning works of literature?
2009-09-14Me and him went shopping?
2009-09-09Gandhi quotation attribution help
2009-09-09Bedeute es mir bitte
2009-09-08Verbum -> Parole due to religious scruples?
2009-08-09travel to dagestan issues
2009-07-15Help me save my marriage