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Can we get this question back from ELL, please?

Araucaria - Not here any more.

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Will websites like English Stack Exchange and its ilk become obsolete due to ChatGPT?

LaurelMod

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answered Mar 17 at 20:25

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Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here

Mari-Lou A

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modified Mar 17 at 12:51

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Editing Answers in This Site

Heartspring

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modified Mar 15 at 23:08

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1 answer

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Why was my question about word definitions and differences closed by mods and downvoted by readers?

Heartspring

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modified Mar 14 at 20:20

-1 votes

0 answers

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recommendations on grammar learning and writing for intermediate level [closed]

HailWo

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Mar 13 at 12:08

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1 answer

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LaurelMod

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answered Mar 9 at 12:25

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4 answers

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Should we update our site's policy against helping programmers choose names to use in their software?

HippoSawrUs

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modified Mar 7 at 21:05

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2 answers

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How do those "Your answer could be improved with additional supporting information" things work?

Xanne

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answered Mar 7 at 9:05

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1 answer

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IELTS test resources [closed]

Mari-Lou A

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modified Feb 26 at 10:48

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1 answer

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Has EL&U stopped tweeting?

David

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modified Feb 23 at 16:20

1 vote

1 answer

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Where to ask for advice specific to the writing of scientific papers?

Andrew LeachMod

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answered Feb 23 at 15:45

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1 answer

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Should we capitalize divine pronouns on here?

LaurelMod

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answered Feb 23 at 4:56

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2 answers

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Are the times on questions deliberately or accidentally imprecise?

LaurelMod

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modified Feb 18 at 12:40

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0 answers

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Why were comments locked on my post?

Heartspring

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modified Feb 17 at 20:30

84 votes

4 answers

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Is Python a snake or a programming language? If the latter, why is it choking my dog?

alphabet

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answered Feb 7 at 22:18

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0 answers

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What's difference between oed.com and oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com

Nam N

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Feb 7 at 10:05

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1 answer

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Detecting output of Large Language Models

Mitch

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modified Feb 4 at 18:08

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1 answer

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2022: a year in moderation

Matt E. Эллен

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answered Jan 31 at 9:25

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1 answer

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COCA corpus: Is it possible to display a list search result as parts of speech?

LaurelMod

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answered Jan 30 at 19:05

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2 answers

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What are the main historical grammar reference books? [closed]

tchristMod

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answered Jan 29 at 16:17

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2 answers

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Why can't we help programmers with English language usage?

tchristMod

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modified Jan 28 at 20:53

3 votes

2 answers

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If a question is too easy, should it be closed, or should it be migrated to ELL?

MarcInManhattan

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answered Jan 28 at 18:40

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1 answer

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After I fix my closed question, how or where do I ask for it to be reopened?

Andrew LeachMod

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answered Jan 20 at 8:50

2 votes

0 answers

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What are the best text-to-IPA converters that match the IPA transcriptions in the Oxford American English dictionary?

Nam N

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modified Jan 18 at 2:53

1 vote

1 answer

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Why was my question (which exists on academia with lots of upvotes) migrated to ELL?

Sebastian E

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modified Jan 15 at 13:42

1 vote

0 answers

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What does the "save this question" button do [duplicate]

Phil Sweet

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asked Jan 13 at 17:41

-7 votes

2 answers

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Why is this community so elitist?

G. Rem

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modified Jan 13 at 9:47

-6 votes

2 answers

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Unreasonable expectations for questions and pedantic gatekeeping

MarcInManhattan

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answered Jan 12 at 8:46

2 votes

1 answer

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Meta and Reference Sources: The Invisible Man?

NVZMod

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modified Jan 11 at 18:10

4 votes

1 answer

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Is the background color of the ELU SE website based on the background color of the Etymonline website?

tchristMod

132k

modified Jan 10 at 14:35

8 votes

0 answers

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Editing a question for long-term value vs. preserving the original poster's point of view

Sven Yargs

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modified Jan 6 at 2:41

4 votes

3 answers

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Relatively recent instances of foreign language grammar entering standard English usage

tripleee

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answered Jan 5 at 5:56

1 vote

1 answer

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Question closed for reasons I find inaccurate

CommunityBot

1

modified Dec 28, 2022 at 22:00

4 votes

1 answer

76 views

How did I get an "Unsave this answer" flag?

LaurelMod

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answered Dec 27, 2022 at 12:49

22 votes

12 answers

911 views

Community Promotion Ads - 2016

Glorfindel

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modified Dec 24, 2022 at 5:23

11 votes

9 answers

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Community Promotion Ads - 2015 [duplicate]

Glorfindel

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modified Dec 24, 2022 at 5:21

4 votes

1 answer

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"Community" edits are often useless and confusing

LaurelMod

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modified Dec 22, 2022 at 17:19

2 votes

0 answers

242 views

An answer about spelling was deleted. Why?

Mari-Lou A

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modified Dec 21, 2022 at 21:45

5 votes

0 answers

95 views

Ahhh! I lost my consecutive days streak

Jim

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modified Dec 20, 2022 at 22:39

58 votes

6 answers

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Should we allow Google NGrams to be presented as statistical evidence without qualification? Should we define a set of standards for their usage?

Sven Yargs

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modified Dec 18, 2022 at 6:09

9 votes

3 answers

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Discourage using number of Google results as a source.

LaurelMod

62.4k

modified Dec 15, 2022 at 15:14

1 vote

1 answer

62 views

How can word choice questions be closed for being opinion-based?

CommunityBot

1

modified Dec 13, 2022 at 16:02

15 votes

2 answers

179 views

Need a way to search for stop words

Charles Rockafellor

101

modified Dec 10, 2022 at 23:25

1 vote

0 answers

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Possible bug: The system tells me to select a reason even though I've already done so

MarcInManhattan

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asked Dec 10, 2022 at 6:21

-5 votes

1 answer

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Check to reopen a perhaps wrongly duplicate-closed question on the right indefinite article before a slash phrase (or before a parenthetical phrase)

Andrew LeachMod

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answered Dec 8, 2022 at 12:53

6 votes

1 answer

132 views

Why was my Ngram comment removed?

tchristMod

132k

modified Dec 5, 2022 at 17:37

0 votes

1 answer

49 views

Would it be possible to preface each theoretical grammar answer with the specific name of the theory being used?

MarcInManhattan

5,509

answered Dec 4, 2022 at 20:22

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