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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What can I do to improve my questions that my questions will be accepted again (regrettably I have got the question ban)?
I don't know what to do. The question ban has come all of a sudden - there was no warning or admonishment. When I look at my questions there is hardly any possibility to fix them. The last 6 questions ...
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On average when is it a good idea to reopen a question?
in average? on average?
Does the community think it a good idea to reopen a ten-year-old question for the following reasons?
It has been viewed 152k times which tells us the dilemma of choosing ...
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Why have I got a question ban?
I'm asking questions on this site and I haven't got any admonishments or warnings up to now. All of a sudden I have got this question ban. I would like to know the reasons of this procedure.
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Why are questions summarily locked?
The questioner wanted to know about this syntax:
The sentence is: "Could we have found a buyer who would continue operations, I would have certainly preferred to sell the business rather than ...
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Can I download / buy Cambridge English Corpus / Cambridge Learner Corpus? Where to download these corpus?
I seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_English_Corpus .
Can I download / buy Cambridge English Corpus / Cambridge Learner Corpus? Where to download these corpus?
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Why was this question downvoted and who downvoted it?
Why was this question downvoted and who downvoted it? I don't understand the reason of downvoting this question. And I can't read the name of the user who downvoted (too small reputation score I think)...
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Book of literary genres and character types?
Saw a writer interviewed once and he talked about having a well known reference book that delineates story genres and fundamental character types.
Unfortunately, I neglected to write down the title. ...
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"I'm against this question primarily because of the username and icon"
Is this type of racism and bigotry allowed here?
Why is “cold X” a bad thing and “hot X” a good thing in English?
I'm against this question primarily because of the username and icon, but it's ...
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Etymology - Specifically for medical science and/or adjacent studies
I absolutely love recommending the study resource "Etymonline" to students seeking to build their vocabularies in topics with very old and eclectic dictionaries, like medicine.
However, the ...
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Are questions about APA formatting on-topic?
I have a question relating to the proper formatting for multi-paragraph block quotes under APA-7. This would appear to fall under "usage", but I know that StackExchange communities tend to ...
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Is there a comprehensive grammar of British English from the early twentieth century that you recommend?
I am a native English speaker and I would like to read an old-fashioned grammar of British English: one that is prescriptive, one that predates generative linguistics
I have been enjoying "The ...
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How can we know what dictionary an entry on Dictionary.com is from?
Dictionary.com just got a lot worse. For example, looking up helium gives you entries from four dictionaries, labeled "American", "British", "Scientific", and "...
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We should not be pasting definitions from online dictionaries into answers when their terms of service prohibit such use
Some online dictionaries prohibit such copying of their content. Some examples below (not meant to be an exhaustive list, and any bolding for emphasis is mine) :
First, from the Stack Exchange terms ...
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Is requesting a English word or saying back to its native language on-topic?
Currently my understanding is that is completely on-topic to request a translation of a non-English word or phrase to an equivalent word or phrase in English; e.g, single-word-requests,idiom-requests.
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What are the highest quality textbooks for learning English grammar? [duplicate]
I am a native English speaker, but I think my grasp of grammar is too weak. So, I want to know what textbooks or reference books others deem worthy of using to deepen and broaden their understanding ...
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