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Oct
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awarded | Popular Question |
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Sep
27 |
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Why "подруга", not "друга" For what it's worth, the 16th installment in the Словарь русского языка XI—XVII вв. series has подругъ (masculine): i.imgur.com/EtcVl.png |
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Sep
23 |
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awarded | Yearling |
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Sep
23 |
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awarded | Yearling |
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Aug
5 |
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awarded | Scholar |
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Aug
5 |
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accepted | How to temporarily induce low latent inhibition? |
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Jun
22 |
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awarded | Scholar |
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Jun
22 |
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accepted | What is the order of adjectival premodifiers? |
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Jun
15 |
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Using code spans to format words in another language? Thanks for the clarification! I'll be fine with whatever formatting style we adopt as our guideline as long as it's uniformly applied and widely accepted in academic literature. |
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Jun
15 |
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Using code spans to format words in another language? @kotekzot Some (admittedly limited) experience with inline glosses in the language-related references I have read and consulted apart, no particular reason at all. Also, as Cerberus pointed out in the EL&U chatroom, you'd have to watch out for ambiguities with bare parentheses. He is more experienced with the formatting practices than I am anyway, and he kindly offered to comment on this issue. |
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Jun
15 |
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awarded | Nice Question |
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Jun
14 |
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Good tagging practice @bonomo 1. I think you wanted to say, "just people made of the same meat who also devoted a considerable portion of their time to studying a given subject." 2. — 3. In my experience as a regular in the ELU chat, subpar tagging practices turned out to be problematic in the end. The moderator and a few people have had to spend quite a while fixing them (and are still doing that occasionally). So, yes, if personal experience counts, it is backed up by real-life examples. |
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Jun
14 |
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Good tagging practice @bonomo Now that is a reasonable suggestion, but please note that hippietrail's set of guidelines is based on what is already established practice on mature sites like EL&U. Additionally, I don't think that a regular user can create a tag without also creating a question, so this is basically a reference to all of us who are busy asking questions and coming up with tags for them (and those of us who are re-tagging the questions). |
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Jun
14 |
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Good tagging practice @bonomo Sorry, but I can't even begin to describe how misguided this is. First, the whole point of the private beta stage is to come up with something we could proudly present to the public at large once we go open. Good tagging practice, formatting guidelines, and so on are part of what makes a site attractive to experts, who are ultimately our target audience. Without them, any site just grows stale and dies. Second, certainly there should be limitations constraining the runaway production of low-quality questions. Third, if we ignore this now, it will become harder to fix later on. |
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Jun
14 |
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awarded | Quorum |
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Jun
14 |
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awarded | Teacher |
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Jun
14 |
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Can we have inline quotes? My opinion is that this feature would be extraneous due to the existence of a generally accepted practice, namely, italicizing such words and using quotation marks for relatively long phrases and sentences. For example, see this and this. |
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Jun
14 |
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Using code spans to format words in another language? added 209 characters in body |
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Jun
14 |
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awarded | Critic |
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Jun
14 |
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awarded | Editor |
