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Synonimize [word-order] to [syntax]?
Syntax is defined as (emphasis mine):
[...] the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences (sentence structure) in a given language, usually including word order.
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Should we add a Classical (and/or Literary) Chinese resource section to "Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese"?
The current central resource question is focussed on Modern Chinese. Should we add a Literary and/or Classical Chinese section?
Alternatively, should we just add a link to the current Classical ...
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Is there a way to typeset the variants of 起?
I'd like to edit both the Mainland and Taiwanese 起 variants into the title of Can 起 be written in two different ways? to make it clear what the question is about from reading the title. However, I ...
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Is preforming a survey on topic?
From time to time, some users would post a survey to gather some statistics. For example, "How many Chinese characters an average Chinese know?"
The table below contains 71 idioms. Native ...
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Are requests for resources on-topic?
It seems there is mixed guidance about this.
Current situation
On meta, it's possible to find a few, very old threads about this:
Questions about resources for learning chinese
FAQ: What is On topic ...
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What's the future for the "Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese" page?
I've been pretty clear about my attitude towards the Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese page for a while now.
It's obsolete. (It had many broken links, but I just edited.)
It's full of non-...
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Reaffirming consensus: Posts are permitted in both English and Chinese
I'd like to reaffirm an 8-year-old consensus [+4/-0] about posting in Chinese and English, which led to this on the on-topic page:
Should I post in English or Chinese?
Questions and answers can be ...
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How do I make the following puzzle on-topic?
How do I make the following puzzle on-topic?
a. Just ask people to solve it.
b. Post the puzzle with the answer and ask which hint is not accurate
Recklessly run around
Make things up
A big mistake ...
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When editing posts, is it okay to remove expressions like "I'm a native Chinese"?
While editing, I frequently come across posts introduced by the typical disclosure:
I'm a native Chinese speaker
...or one of the many variants. Then the post proceeds to answer the original ...
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Is idiom puzzle game on-topic?
I posted 2 idiom puzzle games and asked for suggestions on improving the hints because I am a native Chinese speaker, some hints I feel are obvious may be too hard for non-native speakers. A user ...
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Is Tangut ("an ancient northeastern Tibeto-Burman language") on-topic?
This is motivated by the question here: How to solve the final round of 2020 China National Linguistics Olympiad?
Question: Is Tangut on-topic?
Chinese.SE Meta (here) is the appropriate place to have ...
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Burninate [readers] tag?
The readers tag has 5 questions, and no tag wiki excerpt:
Is there a place to find extremely simple stories?
What book is this passage from?
https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/21525
What ...
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Merge [structure] into [sentence-structure]? What about [constructs]?
It seems to me that these tags are about the same thing. The dominant tag is sentence-structure with 243 questions and a tag wiki excerpt:
Questions concerning the types of words and phrases which ...
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Can we pick another question for the tour page?
The current question on the tour page is was What are the common ice-breaker sentences in Chinese?. I see multiple issues with it:
It functions as an advert for ChineseHulu.com.
The question is ...
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August 2020: survey of the off-topic close reasons at language-related Stack Exchange sites
Heading towards streamlining closure, I went through and categorized the current off-topic the close reasons at the language-related sites (using this Data Explorer query thanks to Glorfindel).
Take-...
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Burninate [doraemon] tag?
I'm going to bet that this burnination request is not controversial. Nevertheless I'll pay my respects to my fellow users.
This tag is used in 7 questions (4 of which are closed) by the same asker, ...
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Burninate [gender] tag?
Currently there are 6 questions tagged gender.
I feel the tag is very narrow and used in a somewhat inconsistent way (see below). It can be better represented by other tags. In particular:
Does ...
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Merge [poem] into [poetry]?
I propose merging the tag poem (4 Qs) into poetry (48 Qs) (thereby getting rid of the poem tag). Again, this seems about as obvious as it gets. I'm mostly just posting this for the record.
I guess ...
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Which topics should be redirected to other SE sites?
This post is about deciding which topics should be asked in Chinese Language SE. There are several colliding topics with other SE sites.
These correspond to the following tags in the Chinese Language ...
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Merge and synonymize: [personal-pronouns] -> [pronouns]
I propose merging and synonymizing personal-pronouns (5 Qs) into pronouns (19 Qs) (thereby getting rid of the personal-pronouns tag).
To me, this seems about as obvious as it gets. I'm mostly just ...
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Why are questions asking for personal opinions (opinion-based) off-topic?
I would like to understand the reasons why questions asking for subjective opinions such as personal approaches for learning Chinese (see for example Is it common to learn individual characters before ...
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Should questions stemming from a trivial misunderstanding be closed?
While editing questions tagged [vocabulary] (as per this meta post), I came across this question:
Does 家医院 just mean hospital?
The format of this question looks fine, in itself, but it's based on an ...
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What to do when an otherwise valid post contains political statements?
An answer to a recently edited question contains the following sentence (emphasis mine):
In China (Beijing, Shenzhen , Shanghai ) we seems never say: 构建. Seems 构建,软体 only spoken in Taiwan province.
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How can we tidy up the [etiquette], [politeness], [social-norm], and [formalities] tags?
I don't think we need all of the tags: etiquette (9 Qs), politeness (20 Qs), social-norm (9 Qs), and formalities (20 Qs). I'd like to get it down to one tag that encompasses all these concepts, if ...
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Synonymize [regional-variation] to [topolect]?
The current tag wiki excerpt of topolect is:
Questions regarding regional variants of the Chinese language.
which is spot-on. The definition of the word "topolect", specifically applied to ...
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Front page not loading —— tag search error
Front page wasn't loading yesterday for a good five minutes with the follow error message:
It was not possible to perform this tag search at this time due to an unexpected error.
Did anyone else ...
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On-topic or not? "Can it be considered rude to start speaking to a stranger in mandarin in a western country?"
This question is currently open: Can it be considered rude to start speaking to a stranger in mandarin in a western country? It's about judging the appropriateness of striking up a conversation with ...
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What is the [vocabulary] tag for?
The tag excerpt for vocabulary (513 Qs) is currently:
It's the set of words used by a language, but also all of the words within a language known by a single person.
This breaks the tag excerpt ...
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What's the [definition] tag for?
Currently the tag definition has 35 questions. No tag wiki excerpt is available. The dictionary definition of "definition" (how meta...) is:
a statement of the exact meaning of a word, ...
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Mature audience's topics?
Whenever I post an answer on foul language or sex-related questions, it gets downvotes.
foul language is a part of the language.
I would like to see a sub-forums like this http://www.cantonese.sheik....
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Why is "What are some modern chinese girl names?" receiving answers instead of votes to close?
We received this question What are some modern chinese girl names? and I can think of multiple reasons for it being off-topic:
It's clearly "Opinion-based".
It "Needs details or ...
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Let's merge [speech], [spoken] and [speaking] into one tag
I feel the three tags speech (5 Qs), spoken (17 Qs), and speaking (41 Qs) are not meaningfully different, so I think we should merge them (creating suitable synonyms). It seems natural to keep the ...
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July 2020: survey of comments on questions containing the substring "close"
Using this Data Explorer query, I searched for comments that contain the string close on questions. I went through them manually, and took a snippet from each relevant comment.
This is just a ...
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What's the difference between [terminology] and [technical]? Burninate [technical]?
The usage guidance for the terminology tag reads:
For questions about technical or specialized words in fields like grammar, IT, politics, sports, etc.
Which is very much appropriate. The formal ...
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Should the [ime] and [input-methods] tags be synonym-ized, and if so which one should we keep?
The ime (30 Qs) and input-methods (10 Qs) tags arose in possible to streamline existing tags?. I think they're the same thing, but maybe there's some nuance I'm unaware of.
If they're basically the ...
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possible to streamline existing tags?
last week, i visited the site and found that there're 203 tags. to select an appropriate one amongst these options is stressful, imo.
so, can we streamline these tags into a healthier grid?
my first ...
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What is the [origin] tag for? Retag to [etymology]
Beside the fact that the origin tag has no usage guidance, isn't it a synonym of etymology?
The term "etymology" means:
(the study of) the origin of a word and the historical development of ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Chinese Language's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the three new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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Tag synonym: [difference] and [usage]?
The tag usage is pretty clear:
Questions that concern the use of expressions, parts of speech, words, verbs, etc.
The tag difference instead is, to me, absolutely obscure:
For differentiating ...
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July 2020: survey of the on/off-topic posts on Chinese.SE meta
This is just a reference post: I went through the Chinese.SE meta posts about on/off-topic-ness, and summarized (what I feel are) the important points below. The mark [****] indicates items I feel we ...
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Problems with rewriting the question of a post that has already been answered
My post Where is the verb in reduplication of adjectives "Noun + Adj + Adj + 的"? was originally confusing because I didn't understand some ideas and I asked too many things. Then, as some of ...
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Should we use different word limits in comment for Chinese and English?
There is a word limit for adding a comment, and that limit is 15 characters. Given that one Chinese character is roughly equal to a word (a few characters) in English, should we lower the limit for ...
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How to choose a duplicate target?
After replying to this recent question:
Why 的 in reduplication of adjectives “Noun + Adj + Adj + 的”?
I thought to myself that something like this must have been asked already. A quick search revealed ...
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Streamlining question closure: approximate roadmap
This is a rough outline of what I'd like to see in terms of closure reform. It will take time. It'll probably evolve with feedback as the process proceeds.
Stage 1: collate available information.
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Should we defer editing old off-topic posts until after they get closed?
This post What should I consider for a one month language program? was recently edited, after four years of inactivity.
While the edit itself is sensible (some unneeded tags were removed), it bumps ...
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Should there be a turn off comments option?
An uploader can turn comments off on his YouTube video.
Should this site provide a turn off comments option or hide comment option?
A comment thread can grow very long. Sometimes I wish I can set a ...
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Tag synonym: [verb-object-compounds] and [separable-verbs]
These two tags verb-object-compounds and separable-verbs identify actually the same thing.
However I can't propose the tag synonym myself, because I don't have 5 total score on those tags. It seems ...
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Someone seems to be copy/pasting question titles to Quora without attribution
It seems someone is reposing question titles from Chinese.SE onto Quora. The questions are all "authored" by Dex Jackson at Quora. (This same user was reported months ago on meta.SE.)
The ...
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How to delete a chat room?
I created a chatroom and now I no longer want it. How do I delete it? I can't find a 'delete chatroom' option anywhere in the room
I see many chatrooms have been inactive for days. Would they be ...
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Comparing our post scores with our peer sites
I adapted some Data Explorer queries to compare our post scores with our peers (questions and answers): see plots below.
I included posts created since 2019 (i.e., in 2019 or in 2020 up to the last ...