Timeline for Audience-specific texts for our "grammatical rules or specific characteristics of a language" close reason
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| Oct 14, 2021 at 9:55 | comment | added | fi12 Mod | These recommendations sound good to me as well! | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 17:00 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @Tsundoku I think so too! I think the question I have is whether it's necessary for the short version of the close description to cover both when the longer version will spell it out more clearly. :) | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 16:31 | comment | added | Tsundoku Mod | The lion's share of off-topic questions that we get are questions such as English - Were We Taught or We Were Taught? and Japanese question is 「あなたと彼女は親戚ですか？」 and 「あなたは彼女の親戚はありますか？」have the same meaning, i.e. from language learners who have come to the wrong site. They are looking for grammatical or lexical explanations. The example in my previous comment is much rarer, but I think we can catch it with the same close reason. | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 16:00 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | So, it's the more "Why is a language this way"? | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 15:56 | comment | added | Tsundoku Mod | Thank you for these recommendations. They appear to work well. Regarding the brief description and "linguistic explanation": the original wording would also cover questions such as Why was gender assigned to words, seemingly at random (in French, Italian and probably many others)?, which is not covered by "How to use language". An alternative brief description might go "Asks how to use language or about specific characteristics of a language." | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 14:01 | history | answered | CatijaStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |