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How to deal with questions on English grammar and usage

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Languages & Linguistics has been getting some questions about relatively basic issues in the English language. There's nothing wrong with these questions as such, but they don't really fit the main purpose. Would it be worthwhile to create a new community for "English Language"? We could talk about disallowing such questions, but given the generally low level of traffic, that may be too drastic.

Summary: What's the best approach to questions about English grammar and usage: Disallow them? Give them a new home? Do nothing?

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Jirka Hanika‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago

Some of the questions about languages other than English are also rather basic for any native speaker of those languages.

Our current "main purpose" is currently defined as "General Q&A about specific languages, language in general, and linguistics"; different members have different backgrounds and different interests within this wide scope. Tagging is our primary general tool for everyone's ability to filter the questions appropriately, but I guess that we need to see way more traffic to be able to optimize the tag set meaningfully and to start hitting the limits of what mere tags can accomplish.