Questions tagged [specific-question]
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Please consider reopening my question
My question is closed as off-topic.
First, my question is not so elementary. It is not about the usual use of past perfect as in
When I came up with the idea of climbing all the statues taller than ...
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Question closed as duplicate but it wasn't
I asked a question about comma usage: Comma in "If in addition"
The question was closed as a duplicate. The question that my question is a supposedly a duplicate of is about parentheses and ...
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Can we reopen this question please? [Now re-CLOSED]
Edit note 2:
The patient and long-suffering OP has now re-asked aspects of this question in three separate posts. So, there's now probably no harm in leaving this one closed.
This useful question on ...
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How can I edit this question and start the reopening process to make additional answers possible?
dog-leg, dogleg, or dog leg? has one well-received and currently accepted answer but was quickly closed for lack of research. It was only my second question here, over three years ago now.
I'd ...
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Why is my question closed as "unclear"?
What's the correct word to refer to a believer of scientism?
I don't understand what's unclear with this question.
The comment says:
Wait... what is scientism exactly? It sounds like a very ...
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Determiner question
The question below seems to be very simple at first glance and swifty got closed:
Are articles pronouns?
However, the answer is not as clear as it seems at first glance. For those of us well ...
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Can we change the linked-to question here, folks?
This question here was rightly closed as a duplicate:
Which is grammatically correct: "There is tea and juice" or "There are tea and juice"?
It has currently been linked to the ...
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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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Is this synonym request truly unanswerable with facts and citations? Does it need to be edited? If so, how?
Term for wavelength-restricted or filtered light having a fairly pure color besides "colored light"? has been closed with the advice to
Update the question so it can be answered with facts ...
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Improper merger
The recent question about the early usage of optics meaning “point of view” has been improperly merged into an older similar question.
Can you please restore the new original question?
Thanks.
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Request to re-open "Rosie the Riveter"
I'm writing to request to re-open the question Rosie the Riveter. It was closed as off-topic, but there is an interesting association between the cultural icon of Rosie the Riveter and the expression "...
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Improper duplicate closure of another prefixes question
Is there a word category for those kind of words?
This question has been redirected to a question about a-adjectives, but the question includes other parts of speech. This has been hastily dismissed ...
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Why was this question voted to be put on hold as being POB by a user while his question is far from being objective?
Why was this question(https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/225083/on-referring-to-a-specific-definite-person-whose-gender-is-known-as-they)
voted to be put on hold as being POB by a user while ...
