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Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here

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Editing Answers in This Site

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

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

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

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IELTS test resources [closed]

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Has EL&U stopped tweeting?

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

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Should we capitalize divine pronouns on here?

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Why were comments locked on my post?

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

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

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Detecting output of Large Language Models

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2022: a year in moderation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Why is this community so elitist?

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Unreasonable expectations for questions and pedantic gatekeeping

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Meta and Reference Sources: The Invisible Man?

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

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

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Relatively recent instances of foreign language grammar entering standard English usage

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Question closed for reasons I find inaccurate

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

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Community Promotion Ads - 2016

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Community Promotion Ads - 2015 [duplicate]

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"Community" edits are often useless and confusing

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An answer about spelling was deleted. Why?

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Ahhh! I lost my consecutive days streak

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Discourage using number of Google results as a source.

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

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Need a way to search for stop words

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

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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)

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Why was my Ngram comment removed?

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


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