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Edit Post #278643 Nominated for promotion almost 3 years ago
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Comment Post #285121 I guess it's a catch 22; the lack of such questions discourages you (and I presume others) from asking those questions in the first place, and the community doesn't diversity. That was kind of what I mentioned in my own response, actually. We need to be more visibly accepting of a more diverse range ...
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Edit Post #285125 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Answer A: How can we grow this community?
I think the answer is a lack of a clear scope. I mentioned this in various comments in the past, but are we a linguistics site (like Linguistics SE), a language learning site (Like English Language Learners SE), a language study site (Like English Language & Usage SE), or all of the above? Some us...
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almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #285121 Please bring up non-site-specific suggestions on Meta, either on the [network-wide sister post to this](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/285075) or as another post. As something that could potentially affect a number of communities, it would be good to post there for visibility.
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almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #285121 Rather than the etymology questions being too rampant, I feel that the main problem is that there is no activity in other fields. If, say, we ignore the etymology questions, then the last activity here was almost a month ago. Clearly something has to be done to increase participation in other fields,...
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Comment Post #285121 For now, I have featured the etymology resource for visibility. I hope that it will encourage users to look through there and expand it.
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Comment Post #284466 What would be the difference from just up and down voting?
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Comment Post #284296 We had some discussion [a long while back](https://languages.codidact.com/posts/279346) about the differences between questions about *language* (language learners stuff, word requests, the whole shebang - stuff that would be on topic on SE's language specific sites) and *linguistics*. It's a really ...
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Question Reactions are here! Suggestions?
Reactions are officially here! Reactions are another way for the community to give feedback on a post; for more information, see this Meta post. I've disabled the default "Works for me", "Outdated", and "Dangerous" reactions for now, since I don't feel like they work well for this community. Th...
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Comment Post #284291 "Running too hard." doesn't have a verb in it.
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Comment Post #282717 > "Have you eaten it?" would only be present perfect tense when referring to the experience of having eaten something @#54189 "Have you eaten it?" is present perfect tense, because that is the grammatical category it falls into. While I don't disagree that it can sometimes be used interchangeably ...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #282717 @#54189 Isn't that just the normal usage of the present perfect, and not especially unique to 'have'? Or am I misunderstanding something. We can do the same for say, 'eat', e.g. "Have you eaten it?"
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284305 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Which phrase is correct? (Is using plural form for singular object make sense?) (Does using plural form for singular object make sense?)
Do Support Let's see exactly where the sentence comes from. There are two processes going on here, "do support" and "inversion". The full, standard non-question sentence is, of course, "Using the plural form for a singular object makes sense." In "title-ese", of course, we tend to drop such thi...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #282717 @#54189 I'm not sure what you mean by that.
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Some grammatical fixes (mostly verb agreement)
about 3 years ago
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Thanks to Jirka Hanika for the Shakespeare reference
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Edit Post #284168 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Does using plural form for singular object make sense?
One misconception: They/them has not been strictly plural for quite a long time. Even Shakespeare used it. > There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / as if I were their well-acquainted friend (From Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, written sometime around the late sixteenth century) U...
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Comment Post #283427 Unfortunately, I do not know either of those languages, but it suggests that it's one of the languages that use the Persian script. Perhaps you could find a Persian or Urdu-literate person to verify this conjecture?
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #283363 I'm seeing them correctly highlighted. Could you share some more information?
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Comment Post #282933 While this might be interesting as a trivia question, it doesn't really have anything to do with the languages themselves.
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over 3 years ago
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Comment Post #282769 Grammatically, "Had I had it?" is just the question form of "I had had it." which is just the past perfect. I don't think this is common though, since most would ask "Have I had it?" (disregarding the inherent awkwardness in asking something about yourself.) One *very* common usage of "Had I had ...
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