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Proposal: delete tags "meaning" and "word-meaning"
These tags are members of the pool of tags that no one really likes very much, but we also don't quite know how to replace them. I've never been fond of meaning; I think meaning-in-context is valid ...
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Proposal: Synonymize [syntax] and [sentence-construction]
So, we can't propose sentence-construction as a synonym of syntax because it is much more commonly used. We'll have to figure out a different way to go about it if this is important to folks. In the ...
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Synonymize [opposite-word] to point to [antonyms]
I think that is a great idea. Antonym is both a more popular tag, and more technical than opposite-word. Since this site caters to those who are not 100% proficient in English, a user could type in ...
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Should the "writing" tag be changed to "written-english"?
Up-vote this answer if you think the writing tag should be left alone and we should just remove it from the questions that aren't focused on written English.
Leave writing alone
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Should the "writing" tag be changed to "written-english"?
Up-vote this answer if you think the writing tag should be replaced with written-english and a synonym added.
Replace writing with written-english
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Accepted
Tags for “countable-nouns”, “uncountable-nouns” and “countability”
There is a lot of overlap, probably in part because two of those tags don’t have any usage guidance.
My opinion is that questions about whether something is uncountable or countable would be tagged ...
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(Completed) Should [answers] be a synonym of [responses]?
Certainly it should be unless someone can come up with a different meaning for it, and give it as tag information.
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Grammar and gramma tag
Thanks for spotting this. It's fine just to suggest an edit replacing the tag (grammar is fine, but if you can, use more specific tags, as the tag excerpt indicates). I've edited it myself now; the ...
GlorfindelMod
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Proposal: delete tags "meaning" and "word-meaning"
So, it turns out these meaning tags have a bunch of questions associated with them and a number of followers.
I would like to start by merging meaning into meaning-in-context. I think we only need ...
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Could we make [grammaticality] a synonym of [grammar]?
In a site for a language learners, it is probable users are using grammar when asking about the grammaticality of a phrase; if they were interested in the syntax of a phrase, they would use syntax, ...
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Let's clean up tags
Well, nobody kept up. Some of this has been done, some hasn't. Here is an updated list (which should be fairly self-explanatory):
Off-topic
x seinfeld
french Discussed here. Mainly used for "What's ...
LaurelMod
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