Questions tagged [grammar]
For reporting grammatical errors in UI elements and for guidance/suggestions on grammatical standards for posts.
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"How to ... ?" questions might be wrong grammar. Will it help dropping the question mark for all questions or warning the user or something the like?
I would like to find out by discussion whether and how this can become a good feature request.
"How to ... ?" questions might be wrong
I see "How to ... ?" questions every day. ...
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Can we actually suspend accounts excessive discussion?
Yes, you read that right, but no, we cannot. Yet here it is:
This account is temporarily suspended excessive discussion in comments.
I think the "due to" was skipped, and it should read &...
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Errors in blog post "Ask like a human: Implementing semantic search on Stack Overflow"
I probably should have included these earlier, but I didn’t realize at the time of posting. I also realize this post is rather nit-picky, but most, if not all, of these are valid issues anyways.
Here ...
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Make tooltip text ending on user tab sorting order consistent. Only the "participation" tab contains dot at the end
Tooltip for "participation" tab contains the . at the end, but there's no dot for all other tabs:
I suggest to remove it here as well. Adding the dot to the all other instead I can't ...
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Inconsistent punctuation in the '?' dropdown menu in the top-bar
In the top-bar, clicking on the '?' button (not sure what it's called), opens a dropdown menu for 'Tour,' 'Help Center,' 'Meta,' and 'About Us.' (Meta sites are slightly different, but the issue is ...
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Strictly Necessary cookies text: "then" not grammatically correct
When customizing cookie settings, the following is shown under Strictly Necessary (click for bigger/sharper image):
These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly and cannot be ...
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Capitalization for image placeholder
I found out that in process of posts improvement by this user, the phrase "enter image description here" used as a default image description placeholder is often (always?) being capitalized ...
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NLN flag description should have an Oxford comma
Company guidance says to "Use the oxford [sic] comma in sentences."* However, the description of the "It's no longer needed." flag, from the flag modal, says "This comment is ...
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Is attribution required when using LLMs to improve the grammar/formatting of a post?
Let's say a user has posted a question/answer with the following content. The English is slightly convoluted but it's good content otherwise:
On enormous territory of park there are lakes, rivers, ...
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Settings are inconsistent on whether descriptions end in periods or not
On the user settings page (your Meta SE one is here) the smaller-font descriptions sometimes end in periods and sometimes don't. This guidance says "Don’t use periods in interface copy unless it’...
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Grammar mistake in Sparkles the Unicorn Game [duplicate]
Page 3 of the Sparkles the Uniform Game has a grammar mistake in the second sentence of the page header:
There she is! You have are almost there!
Presumably the word "have" was ...
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The "You can accept your own answer in <period>" alert is missing a period․
When trying to accept your own answer too early, you get an alert like
You can accept your own answer in 11 hours
According to the Stacks design guidelines, it is missing a period; it's a full ...
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"log in" should be "login"
From https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/login?returnurl=https%3a%2f%2farea51.stackexchange.com%2fusers%2flogin-or-signup%2fdelegated%3freturnurl%3dhttps%253a%252f%252farea51.stackexchange.com%26type%...
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There is a full stop missing in the stackstatus header
I think maybe there's a full stop missing in the second sentence of the stackstatus header? It strikes me as odd that the first sentence has a full stop but the second sentence doesn't.
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