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Meta Split off Linguistics into a site category?

So to be honest, I have basically zero interest in any of the etymology, language usage, or language learning questions here. I'm here for the linguistics questions. And there's really not a lot of...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by curiousdannii‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Moshi‭

#2: Post edited by user avatar curiousdannii‭ · 2020-11-19T02:43:22Z (almost 4 years ago)
  • So to be honest, I have basically zero interest in any of the etymology, language usage, or language learning questions here. I'm here for the linguistics questions. And there's really not a lot of overlap between them.
  • What if we made split off linguistics as its own top level category (so next to Resources)? This keeps the two areas of this site community much closer together than they ever would have been at Stack Exchange, but does give space for theoretical and descriptive linguistics too.
  • So to be honest, I have basically zero interest in any of the etymology, language usage, or language learning questions here. I'm here for the linguistics questions. And there's really not a lot of overlap between them.
  • What if we made off linguistics as its own top level category (so next to Resources)? This keeps the two areas of this site community much closer together than they ever would have been at Stack Exchange, but does give space for theoretical and descriptive linguistics too.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar curiousdannii‭ · 2020-11-19T00:39:02Z (almost 4 years ago)
Split off Linguistics into a site category?
So to be honest, I have basically zero interest in any of the etymology, language usage, or language learning questions here. I'm here for the linguistics questions. And there's really not a lot of overlap between them.

What if we made split off linguistics as its own top level category (so next to Resources)? This keeps the two areas of this site community much closer together than they ever would have been at Stack Exchange, but does give space for theoretical and descriptive linguistics too.