Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Split migration off from the closure tree?
There has been a string of meta questions about ELU migrating low quality questions to ELL. The most recent was this one. This question stems directly from that one.
To help prevent poor questions ...
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Why would one vote to close my question because it has nothing to do with ELL?
Someone voted to close my question for a reason that I do not understand. It looks to be a straightforward question about the usage of word in the English language. What would be the reason for these ...
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When are list-questions on topic?
Perhaps this is a bit too broad a question, but we'll see. Here goes.
Right now, the consensus seems to be that list-question SWRs are opinion-based or too broad (and thus off-topic). List-question ...
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What's difference between oed.com and oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
Could you help me to compare oed.com vs Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
Are they both from Oxford University? Where can I find a list of Oxford official website?
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What are the best text-to-IPA converters that match the IPA transcriptions in the Oxford American English dictionary?
There are so many text to IPA converters available but I am having difficulty finding a text-to-IPA converter that consistently or closely matches the IPA transcriptions in the Oxford American English ...
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An answer about spelling was deleted. Why?
December 7, 2022
An answer, which was highly upvoted, has been recently deleted by a mod.
After searching briefly on the net, the content seems to be original and the author's explanation more than ...
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Finding synonymous alliterations
Any recommendations on an online alliteration generator that searches through synonyms of two (or more) given words? That seems to have been how Something of something alliteration generator worked, ...
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Why are "Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references..." off-topic?
I recently had a question closed for lack of research/ answers being in "commonly-available references".
My question is, why is this considered a good reason to close a question? Surely, the ...
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Can I get my question reopened please?
My question: In English, are trains female? has been closed due to apparently being a duplicate of What is the gender of an aircraft?
Obviously, aircraft and trains are not the same thing, and my ...
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Metaphor classification
When I asked a metaphor related question, that is now closed, I was told to read the following article by Richard Nordquist about the different metaphor types. I am now looking for a more ...
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How to find list of adverbs with their usage related to corresponding verbs and adjectives
I am a Programmer and working on a NLP project that suggest adverbs to the adjectives and verbs in the sentence. I need grammar suggestion regarding this.
If anyone can tell the way or resource to ...
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What's an example of a good proofreading question?
I see a lot of potentially poor quality questions when I go through the review queue, but I don't know how I'd recognise a good quality proofreading question. The close message says a specific source ...
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Please consider reopening a question about a fairly recent, politics-specific meaning of 'pivot' [Question has been reopened]
The question is what did Mr. Tester mean by saying to Dennis Muilenberg that you are 'pivoting' in the Congressional testimony of 737 Max? It was closed nine days ago with the following ...
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Is this question, asking for an insulting term, clear enough to provide a good answer as opposed to a laundry list?
I refer to this question: Insult for someone who “doesn't know anything”?
I VTC'd on the basis of Unclear What You are Asking, because I didn't find any context. Is the person to be insulted lazy, ...
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Editorial Questions Regarding the Question about Stealing Non-Rival Goods
Why I am Asking
There was a little editorial dispute between me and another user, who was not the original author of the question. The complaintant was requesting clarification from the author, ...
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Why was my question concerning the existence of a word put on hold?
I asked a question here Is there a word for somebody who likes to be taken care of and pampered? and it was put on hold because of the following,
"Questions on choosing an ideal word or phrase must ...
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"These sort of things": is it grammatical? (2,670,000 hits on Google) | Does reopening my question seem justified, and will you help me do it?
Considering that Peter Shor said:
'Except that it's not an exact duplicate. This question deals with "these kind of X", with a plural determinant and a singular word from kind/type/sort, and those ...
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"confused in using ON or Open" merged with deleted question
The question confused in using ON or Open (submitted three months ago) was merged with a question that was deleted at some point in time after the merge action. It still cannot be answered or edited.
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What should I do when I notice that a question posted on ELU was posted on another site?
I am referring to this question Where does the [sic] go in this sentence? The OP mentioned he had posted it on https://travel.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3725/correcting-language-errors-in-...
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Related questions that I think were incorrectly merged
Word meaning coincidence of reference to the unusual
Phenomenon of learning a new word that you've never seen before, and then seeing it being used (currently merged with the above)
A single word ...
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Should a moderator merge the questions about the pronunciation of the name "Sean"?
Why do we pronounce Dean as /diːn/ but Sean as /ʃɒn/?
Why is Sean pronounced Shawn?
I think I was the first one to vote for closing the first as a duplicate of the second, and now I feel stupid for ...
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Separating answers to gauge community response
In this answer, I replied with documentation from both sides of the debate:
That and which are equivalent.
That and which differ.
Would it be more helpful to the community to separate these into two ...
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Is downvoting every single post in a question without leaving any comment constructive?
I have relatively short experience on EL&U and I found some questions where every post was downvoted in a matter of one minute or so. I mean it is very unusual to see every single post in one ...
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Reproduction of copyright notices
The issue of copyright infringement of referenced (non-ELU) works has been discussed previously, with citations and fair use provisions considered. However, the ELUmeta questions I looked at didn't ...
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Why "Questions that may already have your answer" doesn't populate the right set of similar questions?
I posted this question after searching a few times(through Google and within ELU Search).
Turns out , it had already been asked and answered before here and consequently, my question was marked as ...
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Three duplicates that I think should be merged (pronunciation of "coN-" words)
I don't see any value in keeping the following three questions distinct. However, there are some valuable answers to each of them (but not too many answers). So, I think all of the answers should be ...
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How can we contact or engage the moderators?
Presumably one of the roles of moderators is to correct users that are performing clearly erroneous reviews. I thought the two users who rejected this edit could probably use some guidance, which ...
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Should you make an aggressive edit on a post that already has answers?
In this question
Is there a word for someone or something that literally defies the laws of physics?
The question was initially badly phrased asking for words meaning something that really does defy ...
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confused if this question be asked here or in ELL
Sometimes I get confused where to ask questions, here or on English Language Learners. Anyway, could "What is the term of someone who like to have the center of attention, talks about him self and ...
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Would a tag for 'grammar terms' help?
This question is motivated by this comment:
There should be a tag "grammar terms". The tags etymology and Latin are rather vague and do not characterize the problem of this post sufficiently. And I ...
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tag: function word
I miss a tag like function word. The most difficult words in the dictionary of English and all other languages are function words.
The thread "Is this subjunctive?" in ELU concerned with "come+time" ...
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Why does this site fall under "culture/recreation"?
If you look at the StackExchange footer - shown at the bottom of all the network sites - you will see that English Language & Usage is categorised under "Culture/Recreation". I'm not sure if it is ...
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Closure of question that cited Etymonline, OED, & a logic textbook?
Why was this closed, in view of claims to 'please include the research you've done...'?
As stated in my OP, I consulted Etymonline, OED, and a logic textbook.
Update on 2015 May 6: I thank the five ...
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Where to ask for an acronym?
I am looking for a well-known military acronym (like KIA, SOP, or POW) ending with a specific letter. I've went through a rather long list of acronyms, but none are really well-known (or unambiguous).
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Should queriers of etymology declare awareness of linguistic traps?
This meta question motivated this. By linguistic traps, I mean those listed at https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/12077/5306, such as the Etymological Fallacy.
For me, though it'd be easier not ...
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What is this “ɹɐʍɯɐq” nonsense?
EDIT: Rewrote offending word in upsidedownascript so as not to provide free advertising for the spamvertiser.
I may be seeing this only today. Maybe it's been going on since a long time but the only ...
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Why was my question closed as 'off-topic'?
I recently asked this question on ELU: Should there be a comma in "You again?"?
The answer to this question may be obvious to some of you, but for me, it isn't. I tried searching on ELU and ...
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Should Humor and Jokes tags be synonyms?
I was surprised to learn that humor and jokes were not synonyms.
Humor
Questions about humorous expressions, jokes, puns, etc.
38 questions
Jokes
For questions about jokes. But be careful, many ...
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Boilerplate Comment Etiquette
There is an app for making boilerplate comments on SE. This makes quickly posting identical comments easy, which helps with site maintenance tasks like flagging or suggesting improvements to posts. In ...
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Who is user 19341?
I asked the same question at Stack Exchange Meta, and I think it is also good to ask the question here.
I found that Google Chrome omnibox suggests me "english stackexchange users 19341" when I ...
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Should [meaning] and [meaning-in-context] be mutually exclusive?
meaning-in-context and meaning have a fairly high overlap rate of 26% which means that 26% of all questions tagged meaning-in-context are also tagged meaning. The full list of ~375 don't reveal ...
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Duplicate Comments & Un-flagging Comments
I've three related questions:
If I believe a comment is essentially a duplicate of an earlier one, what is the proper etiquette, if any? I assume it's better to up vote a comment I agree with, rather ...
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Migrate a question after it is answered
The question in question here was:
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/14967/can-i-use-on-when-i-add-the-content
Although the question on this forum was from a person trying to learn English, ...
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Oh Sunday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be
I am new here (6th day) but love it.
Today is Sunday, and I notice that the quality of the questions is way down. I'm guessing that it's crunch time, and a lot of people with homework questions are ...
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In what circumstances should I provide two answers to a question? (if any that is)
I know that the feature is there, and pops a little warning dialog box, and my feeling is 'never' but I haven't found any examples, or much guidance.
For example, on this question about a word ...
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Why was my question closed as being "too broad"?
Is there a word in English for a man who leaves his pregnant wife and child?
Similar, highly-rated questions do exist, and it seems no more or less specific than those, so I can't understand why this ...
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What is the reason that this question is considered as 'off-topic'?
I posted the below question, and there were a couple of helpful answers.
Is 'dead on arrival' a slang?
As of now, this question has been closed as an 'off-topic' question.
https://english....
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What is a standard textbook about editing writing by non-native speakers?
What is a textbook that teaches editors and proofreaders good practice, methods, techniques and resources for editing the advanced writing of non-native speakers, for example academic writing or ...
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Do you like the new layout?
A few days ago the layout of SE sites front pages has changed, to a considerable extent IMO.
I know that it is probably the result of a hard and carefully thought process of programmers and site ...
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Any good POS tagging websites?
I thought I had found one that was pretty good (Parts-of-speech.info), but I just entered the sentence "The kids hoot." and it told me "determiner noun noun." If it can't identify &...
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