The tag description for "grammaticality" says, "Grammaticality refers to whether something obeys the rules of grammar for English." The tag "grammatically" has no description, but its 23 questions all seem to be concerned with whether something obeys the rules of English grammar. Four of the questions under this tag follow the format of "Is ________ correct/grammatically correct?" and several others ask which of two options is correct. It seems that all of these questions fit the description of the "grammaticality" tag, so does the "grammatically" tag have some other purpose that sets it apart?
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2'grammatically' sounds like a typo preserved– MitchCommented Jan 12, 2015 at 16:24
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1Should all the questions with that tag be tagged as "grammaticality" instead? That tag has close to 3,000 questions, so it was definitely there first.– NicoleCommented Jan 12, 2015 at 16:26
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What @Nicole said. I've done a few (some of which had both tags, which seems totally daft to me).– FumbleFingersCommented Jan 12, 2015 at 19:04
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1Well-spotted, I've never noticed the anomaly. Synonym tag should be voted on, asap,before people forget.– Mari-Lou ACommented Jan 13, 2015 at 7:44
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Ahh, only two users have bothered to vote so far. C'mon how much time does this take?– Mari-Lou ACommented Jan 13, 2015 at 14:51
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1@Mari-LouA: the system has some rather draconian rules about who is allowed to vote on tag synonyms. Frankly, I'm surprised it allowed me to suggest the synonym at all.– MarthaªCommented Jan 13, 2015 at 16:21
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I tried to vote on it, but I don't have enough rep from that tag, apparently.– NicoleCommented Jan 13, 2015 at 16:45
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To upvote the synonym one needs to have 2,500 rep and at least 5 points earned by asking or answering any question tagged "grammaticality". There are plenty of users and mods who fit the criteria– Mari-Lou ACommented Jan 13, 2015 at 17:38
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2@Mari-LouA: that's to transfer "grammaticality" to "grammatically", which we presumably don't want. The other way round requires users who have rep on "grammatically"; there are only 11 such questions, so it may take some time.– Tim LymingtonCommented Jan 13, 2015 at 17:49
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There are now three votes for the suggested synonym which Martha has posted in her answer.– Mari-Lou ACommented Jan 13, 2015 at 17:56
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@Mari-LouA: 2 days later, and it's still at three votes. I'm not sure if there really are that many people who meet the voting criteria, even though I don't believe Tim is correct about which tag is the significant one. The problem, I think, is with the "5 points", which sounds like "5 rep" — i.e. trivially easy — but actually means "net five upvotes" and isn't very easy at all.– MarthaªCommented Jan 15, 2015 at 20:53
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Oh, I thought it was the equivalent of one upvote on a question. Five points can't mean the same as five upvotes, that's 50 points!? But even so, there are better "qualified" and more experienced users than I who must have earned those points. Tchrist, regdwight, medica, fumblefingers, andrew leach, hellion, john lawler etc.– Mari-Lou ACommented Jan 15, 2015 at 21:21
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@Mari-Lou Perhaps they haven't seen this post, then.– NicoleCommented Jan 15, 2015 at 21:26
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Perhaps they don't care...– Mari-Lou ACommented Jan 15, 2015 at 21:27
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2I just gave the last needed vote, so it's a synonym now :) I would have done so earlier had I been online :)– oerkelensCommented Jan 17, 2015 at 16:04
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I have suggested grammatically as a synonym of grammaticality. I believe that if the synonym is approved, re-tagging becomes unnecessary, but that may just be wishful thinking on my part. In any case, if the system will let you, please vote on the synonym suggestion.
(It should go without saying that I believe the "grammatically" tag is a typo for "grammaticality".)
ETA: the synonym is now approved (thanks for the last vote, oerkelens!), and I was right: the system automatically re-tagged all the relevant questions.
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It seemed like a typo to me, too, but I wondered if 23 different people could make the same typo. Besides, the creation of the tag must have been approved, right?– NicoleCommented Jan 12, 2015 at 22:18
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5@Nicole: if the person who originally created the tag had high enough rep, then no, there was no approval required. Subsequent users of the tag probably started typing "grammat...", at which point both tags came up, and they chose the wrong one -- the two words look almost identical. Or, for the ones who used both tags, they decided "well, let's just cover all our bases".– MarthaªCommented Jan 12, 2015 at 23:01
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2Another possibility: someone wants to add the (nonexistent) tag "grammatically-correct" to a question. As soon as they get to the hyphen, the possibilities list goes empty, so they backspace until the list comes back up again, and choose the closest (read: only) match, namely grammatically.– MarthaªCommented Jan 12, 2015 at 23:05
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2I retagged a few before I got bored and decided to let others finish the job, but in retrospect yours is a better approach. It turns out I can endorse your synonym proposal, but I recall that on other similar occasions in the past I've not been able to do this because I don't happen to have enough rep gained from questions associated with the specific tag involved. Your reasoning as to how 22 people managed to select the "inappropriate" alternative (after one initial mistake) sounds convincing to me; dealing with it your way should mean we'll avoid it cropping up again in future. Commented Jan 13, 2015 at 15:56