7

FYI, I noticed this on ELL this morning, and it shows up here as well:

This question doesn't meet a [sic] English Language & Usage Stack Exchange guideline.

This question doesn't meet a [sic] English Language & Usage Stack Exchange guideline.

Eddie Kal has posted on Meta SE about it.

14
  • 2
    I'm guessing it's going to be hard to code "does the next word start with a vowel sound". But perhaps it's per-site modifiable.
    – Matt E. Эллен
    Sep 15, 2020 at 18:56
  • 5
    The current recommendation is to change it to "This question doesn't meet [site name] guidelines".
    – Davo
    Sep 15, 2020 at 19:10
  • 1
    That makes sense.
    – Matt E. Эллен
    Sep 15, 2020 at 19:16
  • 1
    Quick, efficient, and preventing a great deal of embarrassment.
    – Mary
    Sep 16, 2020 at 1:19
  • 1
    Another option would be to change from "a ... guideline" to "one or more ... guidelines." That version would sound better if "doesn't" were changed to "fails to" earlier in the sentence.
    – Sven Yargs
    Sep 19, 2020 at 1:00
  • 3
    @MattE.Эллен If you think that it might be “hard to code ‘Does the next word start with a vowel sound?’ ”, then you may well be delightfully surprised albeït mayhap unastonished to learn of this already coded solution at one’s disposal, along with its underlying implementation, …
    – tchrist Mod
    Sep 19, 2020 at 14:26
  • 3
    @MattE.Эллен … not to mention its historical precursor along with its own respective implementation. My point is that in programming communities where a premium is placed on ɴᴏᴛ generating ungrammatical nonsense by careless programmers deaf to the intricacies and exigencies of English morphophonology, pre-packaged solutions are readily available in plenty—the contrapositive of which is also lamentably true.
    – tchrist Mod
    Sep 19, 2020 at 14:26
  • @tchrist that's surprising, and pleasing. When I get the chance I'll take a look to see how it's done.
    – Matt E. Эллен
    Sep 19, 2020 at 18:11
  • 1
    Shows how much people actually read those banners!
    – marcellothearcane
    Sep 20, 2020 at 19:58
  • 1
    @tchrist Ah, Perl. Those were happy days... Gazes dreamily into the distance / Notices a certain cookbook on the shelf
    – Andrew Leach Mod
    Oct 16, 2020 at 14:21
  • 1
    This problem still exists as of 2 Jan 2021, even though it was first posted on Meta SE back in June 2020. I've therefore posted a follow-up question here.
    – Chappo Hasn't Forgotten Monica
    Jan 2, 2021 at 9:00
  • Not fixed as of 1 Mar 2021. And the link in the commment above gives a 404.
    – Davo
    Mar 1, 2021 at 12:18
  • Eight months now. Welcome to the site for "linguists, etymologists, and (serious) English language enthusiasts."
    – Davo
    May 28, 2021 at 18:53
  • The original bug report is one year old today. This bug still has not been corrected. meta.stackexchange.com/q/349877/349502
    – Davo
    Jun 23, 2021 at 13:03

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
1

It's STILL not fixed, but I did get the necromancer badge on meta.stackexchange.com for bumping it.

Recent Achievements

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .