I was recently re-tagging a question clearly about transatlantic-differences which had previously been tagged american-english and british-english.
I decided to remove the two English tags in favour of transatlantic-differences.
Should I have?
I was recently re-tagging a question clearly about transatlantic-differences which had previously been tagged american-english and british-english.
I decided to remove the two English tags in favour of transatlantic-differences.
Should I have?
I wouldn't bother retaining the individual region tags for North American vs. Insular English if it's about transatlantic differences of the customary variety.
After all, one only gets five tags total, so it would be all too easy to waste all those enumerating myriad transpondian dialects.
The following question, British Mass Nouns versus American Count Nouns has three tags, american-english, british-english and transatlantic-differences
This question, If someone says "They insisted that he left", is there any ambiguity in BrE or in AmE?, doesn't have [american-english] because the OP is asking about ambiguity in BrE.
This question, What is the US English for "soppy"?, doesn't have either [american-english] or [british-english], just [transatlantic-differences]. I think this question should be tagged [american-english], too.
And this question, Difference between "everlasting" and "eternal", has both [transatlantic-differences] and [differences] and I don't see any reason why this question should be tagged [transatlantic-differences].
I know a few enthusiastic users have contributed a lot to streamlining the tag system on ELU for the last couple of months, but IMO, there is no harm in tagging as many tags as possible. We can tag maximum five.
If you think a question is about [transatlantic-differences], but tagged only [american-english] and [british-english], please just add the tag without deleting the two in the same way as we tag differences while leaving other related tags such as grammar, meaning, meaning-in-context, etc.