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Upvotes on Questions, Answers, Comments, etc
Might just be me, but why does it seem like no one is voting on questions and answers on Linguistics.SE - I'd run some queries to attempt to prove this, but beta sites are not listed on the Data.SE ...
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Updating FAQ for conlang questions
The community discussed Should we include Conlangs in our scope? a few years ago. It was decided then that conlang questions will remain on-topic at Linguistics SE.
However, Constructed Languages SE ...
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Organizing our Linguistics Blog
SE sites do not have a blog by default but we can request one. I ask you to read this blog entry, which is related to this topic.
Keeping in mind that we should post there at least once a week (not ...
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Why is there no International Phonetic Alphabet input method on this site?
To be accepted as a serious international linguistics site; it is my opinion that we should implement an input method for the International Phonetic Alphabet, for example the Type It IPA Keyboard
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Good examples of etymology questions
I've said before that etymology has a tricky relationship with linguistics:
Linguistics is the study of language systems. Etymology questions belong here when they're asking about systematic issues....
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How should we treat new users?
What should we do about new users when they break the rules? What shouldn't we do?
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Do we want hats?
In 2011, the Gaming Stack Exchange hosted an event called Hat Dash, where users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges):
Certain actions would trigger the ...
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What's the reasoning behind our policy against questions on a single language, and is it good?
As we all know we have a policy that we discourage questions that are on a single language.
I understand that this would filter out things like English usage questions that laypeople thing often ...
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What is the cross-linguistic tag?
I don't quite get the usage of the cross-linguistic. Does it mean that the question concerns more than one language? In that case, aren't questions by default cross-linguistic? Is it something like "...
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Why are questions about CFGs and related stuff so unwelcomed by the StackExchange Linguistics users?
I've found myself engrossed in studying the formal language/grammar theory lately. Yet, I can't solve every problem I stumble upon along the way. From my experience, StackExchange Linguistics users ...
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Tag for language spoken in former Yugoslavia
I've just asked a question about regarding the language variety spoken in Serbia, Croatia, and other areas of former Yugoslavia. I understand the naming of the language is a contentious political ...
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Spring Clean-Up!
I'm retaking this question and slightly change it to address a larger issue.
Since we don't want any broken windows on our site, but only nice shiny questions, we are going to do some spring clean up ...
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What should the site-specific close reasons be?
Stack Exchange has three standard closure reasons, “details”, “clarity” and “opinion. We can add three site-specific reasons (we do so), which I refer to as “language-specific”, “text” and “trees” ...
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Can we give better guidance on questions
TL;PR
The help center gives some positive guidance about on-topic matters, and some negative guidance about what not to do. There is a specific point about the "Not 'Please make me a tree'" rule ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
You lost your “beta” label in 2019, so welcome to your very first edition of Community Promotion Ads, for the year of 2020!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-...
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Does the no-tree rule improperly conflate two valid reasons to close?
One of the main reasons for question-closure (someone else can figure out the stats) is "questions about drawing trees". Two rationales have been given for this rule: (1) we don't do people's homework ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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How do you make nice consonant/vowel charts and tables?
Wikipedia has some nice vowel charts, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_vowel_charts.
Example (Korean vowels):
Example (Australian English diphthongs):
Similarly, there ...
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Upcoming journal editions: read 'em and ask on the Stack (and get prizes)
As the new monthly issues of your favorite journals are published, we want to remind you to ask those burning questions that pop into your head as you read through novel approaches, methods and ...
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Stack Exchange Fellowship and Grant Program: Looking for reviewers to assess thesis proposals
Stack Exchange will be introducing a Fellowship Program awarding grants for original and independent research projects. Undergraduate Honors Theses, Independent Study Projects, Masters Theses, and ...
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Should we accept only questions on theoretical linguistics topics?
Actually I'm not totally sure what is and isn't theoretical linguistics myself, I assumed it would be stuff like X-bar theory and generative grammar and anything with really difficult to read research ...
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Serial downvotes on my questions
I notice that I get downvotes on my questions following some pattern:
The downvotes are on questions only, so they don't leave a -1 in the SDV's (serial downvoter's) reputation
The downvotes are ...
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Is this question about etymology and meaning really off-topic?
This question, as I stated in the final section and in the title, is about the etymology and meaning of "atturna" in Sicilian. It mentions a piece of a song because it is the only place where I found ...
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Should we merge the "historical linguistics" and "language change" tags?
Currently we have the two tags historical-linguistics and language-change.
I thought I'd take a crack at making tag wikis for them since I have an intuition of what they mean but for some help with a ...
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Since SE’s decision to put a halt on non-English language based SEs, is linguistics the correct place to put them?
For example, I have seen some questions related to non-English grammar on here come up from time to time. Persian. Turkish etc.
I am learning Turkish and I was wondering if it would be correct to ...
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Are questions about the historical development of languages on-topic?
I think the title says it all, but let me elaborate.
I would like to ask which languages have been known at certain time. Maybe one could elaborate the question by focusing on a special region or ...
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When are language-specific questions allowed?
This post pertains only to questions that ask only about and engage one language.
I already read this and the following reason which has been alleged of many of my own questions:
"Language-specific ...
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How should we call our chat room?
I recently renamed our chat name and description, and now they are:
lɪŋgwɪstɪks
wɛlkəm tu lɪŋgwɪstɪks!
But a proposal was thrown to ask the community about it and decide together. Do you have a ...
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Is the [homonymy] tag supposed to be for same pronunciation and spelling, or just either?
Is homonymy supposed to be for same pronunciation and spelling, or just either?
The tag guidance says:
a relation between a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but ...
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How can I enter angle brackets on this site?
Angle brackets are used in linguistics to denote orthographical writing in a context where the distinction matters like "$\langle$wh$\rangle$ is pronounced /w/ or /ʍ/ but not /hw/ in English&...
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Are primitive questions suitable for the site?
I am currently learning Modern Hebrew but I am still a complete novice.
Since I am learning on my own, I have to answer the questions I have asked myself. Yet, I do not always have an answer and need ...
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Where can I ask for a translation?
I tried to find what I was looking for elsewhere. That led me to this site. I saw a question similar to my own in the history section. I asked there. I got chewed out for it. I searched for someplace ...
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Are implementation questions about computational linguistics on topic?
I am implementing a machine translation system.
Are questions about how they implement something on topic?
I was about to ask how phrase-based SMT splits an input up into phrases. Then I figured I'...
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Meaning / use of "belongs elsewhere" for closing questions
An option given as a reason to close a question is that the question belongs elsewhere. When you select that, you are given only one choice (which you have to select), namely that it belongs on ...
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How to handle bullying?
I've just encountered the following.
A user of linguistic SE, considering himself highly competent while in fact completely misunderstanding the topic, found his pride in bullying my question and ...
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What about a Challenge Week?
In other StackExchange sites, a Challenge Week has been set as a sort of boost to the community.
What are its effects exactly?
Well, for example there is a considerable increase in the questions ...
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Can we no longer vote to migrate to meta?
I wanted to vote to migrate this question to Meta, since it's asking about reputation. But that close reason seems to have disappeared.
When (and why) did this change happen? "Migrate to Meta" isn't ...
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Would a question about an uncertain passage in a Greek poem be accepted here?
I once translated (and thus had to reconstruct, in part) the complete poems of Sappho. I am now posting those translations to my blog, along with other translations. As I will have to go over the ...
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How do numbers differ from numerals?
Tags numbers and numerals appear to cover exactly the same ground: names of numbers, which Wikipedia describes in "Numeral (linguistics)". Both are distinct from grammatical-number, which is about ...
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Stance on "Is X a better language for poetry?" questions
I'm wondering what the general opinion on questions like these is. I've came across a couple of so far, and personally i don't think they belong on linguistics SE. The tone of the question tends to be ...
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Community ad ideas for Linguistics
In order to promote this site, Alenanno created a community promotion ad to be placed on related Stack Exchange sites. (Currently this is only English Language and Usage, since ads are only enabled ...
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Tags "syntax" and "word-order"
It was argued on a question once that syntax and word-order are not the same thing, yet I see these tags used both in the same questions.
What do the community think about this?
If they are the ...
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Challenge Weeks Database
This is the Meta question we use to group all the previous Weeks!
Each answer is a Challenge Week, where you can see the questions asked for that Challenge, the topic and of course, the winner
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What is the etiquette of drawing up a question which explores some very vast principles on a concrete example on Linguistics.SE?
I asked this question on Linguistics.SE some time ago, which was closed as off-topic. Even though I believe some users found the question interesting as well (a discussion took place in the comments), ...
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How can I improve my question on McWhorter's explanation of why some verbs are inherent reflexive?
Can you please recommend how I can clarify How does 'remembering something' vs. 'remembering is something that happens to you' explain Inherent Reflexive Verbs?
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FAQ: Linguistic Terminology
I have problems understanding some answers/questions because the terminology being used is too technical. Where can I find out what is the meaning of a particular term?
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In a user's reputation data, what does "User Removed" mean?
When I checked my reputation data recently, I noticed that, in addition to entries like "accept", there was a little message that said "User Removed."
What does this mean?
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How come I'm logged in on meta, but main doesn't know me? ... on this SE and on ELU SE
On English Language & Usage SE and now on main on this SE: I am asked to log in, refused entry because I'm not in the database, and then ... on meta, it knows who I am.
And here I am. Asking ...
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