Is it ok for a native speaker of English to ask questions here, so long as the topic is related to someone who is learning English?
I am a regular user of Lang-8 (1), and I have two types of questions as a result of participating in that site:
1) Sometimes I'm asked a question about English, and I consider it non-trivial enough to ask on Stack Exchange.
For example, https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/94679/referring-to-adult-age-sons-and-daughters-as-children was the result of someone asking me a question on Lang-8.
2) Sometimes I'm correcting the English of a learner, and I have a gut feeling as a native speaker that it's wrong, but I can't exactly say why.
For example, someone described Japan as being "a long country from south to north", and I suspected that it should be "a long country from north to south": https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86763/is-north-to-south-a-more-common-set-phrase-than-south-to-north
Would both of these kinds of questions be welcome on ELL?
(1) Lang-8 is a website where you practice a language you're learning by writing journal posts in that language. Your posts are corrected by native speakers of that language. In return, you correct people writing posts in your native language.
If anyone's interested, the following questions were also prompted by reading the English of non-native speakers (mostly from Lang-8):
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/100342/more-specific-antonym-to-lodger-than-landlord
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/100150/is-it-unidiomatic-to-say-an-australian-person-or-an-aussie-person
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/97650/is-it-safe-to-use-old-to-mean-previous-for-a-person
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/97020/should-words-be-capitalized-for-being-religious-terms
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96894/for-people-can-you-say-a-british-like-you-can-say-an-australian
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96115/which-of-couldnt-cant-and-doesnt-for-13-13-13
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96087/whats-meant-by-wishing-for-a-child-as-red-as-blood-and-white-as-snow
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/95776/does-safety-level-mean-the-same-thing-as-level-of-safety
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/94679/referring-to-adult-age-sons-and-daughters-as-children
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/94440/is-geisha-girl-used-to-refer-to-actual-geisha (tourist brochure, not Lang-8)
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/92128/when-is-less-used-and-when-is-free-used
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/87146/do-lamb-and-ram-share-a-common-etymology
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86763/is-north-to-south-a-more-common-set-phrase-than-south-to-north
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/77996/is-huge-slightly-informal
Proposal: English Language Learners