Questions tagged [culture]
The Culture category includes proposals in subjects like language, religion, society, groups, and politics.
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Важливо / ReadMe for the “Ukrainian Language” proposal
Ця сторінка є не обговоренням, а інформацією.
Ukrainian Language proposal — це сторінка пропозиції (англ. proposal) щодо відкриття на базі платформи Stack Exchange сайту питань і відповідей про ...
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Korean Language Discussion Room has been created
Proposal: Korean Language
To keep the interest in this going and to encourage more new users to commit here I have set up a chat room at
http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/30769/korean-language-...
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Our proposal is in commitment. Thanks to everyone!
Proposal: Korean Language and Usage
As we can see, our Korean Language and Usage proposal has finally reached commitment stage after a year. To be honest, I had braced myself up to see this ...
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English for Language Users
Proposal: English Language Learners
My basic issue is that ELU is for linguists, etymologists, and (serious) English language enthusiasts.
ELL is supposed to be for English learners
And we still ...
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I advertise this proposal on ELU
Proposal: Language Learning
ELU
SIne ELL has graduated, I place it there too
ELL
You can go there and upvote it. 6 upvotes will make it be shown on the ad panel.
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To follow is not enough, 40 questions with +10 are also needed!
Thus, if you want the site, you have to vote. This vote decides, which questions will be ontopic there, and which won't.
Although the site have the needed 60 followers soon, it is not enough. Simply ...
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About the description of the proposal
Proposal: Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit language is proposed as a new language site under culture. Currently the description of the proposal is as follows:
Proposed Q&A site for academicians, ...
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SwagOverflow - Clothing
I haven't seen a StackExchange site about clothing yet. If there is, please forgive me.
I have a place in mind, where you could ask questions about your outfits or clothes, or what to buy. Doesn't ...
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Four more people for the Korean language proposal
Proposal: Korean Language and Usage
At the time of writing, there are 133 followers and have 35 out of 40 questions with 10 votes or more.
We have less than three days left to find (& upvote!) 5 ...
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غرفة دردشة للمقترح Chatroom for this proposal
Proposal: Arabic Language
لقد تم تكوين غرفة دردشة مؤقتة لهذه المقترح لها هدفان رئيسان هما:
ترويج المقترح، أو على اﻷقل تأييد الترويج لها
جمع الملتزمين ومؤيدو هذه المقترح في مكان واحد إلى حين وصول ...
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How does Biblical Hermeneutics mesh with the new Christianity.SE site?
Proposal: Biblical Hermeneutics
Question: Christianity.SE has 7 questions tagged hermeneutics at the moment. How many of those have
at least one answer that qualifies as good/great
Enough validity ...
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Are these some ways psychology topic might differ from cognitive stack?
Proposal: Psychology
Don't issues relating to cognition link more to brain science and neurological research while issues pertaining to psychology also embrace theoretical topics such as personality, ...
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How down to 7 from 3 questions?
Proposal: Hinduism
How did this happen? I doubt that only 10 vote questions are downvoted by someone?It was down to 9 actually, I changed some of my votes to make this 7 now..
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What are the guidelines (next to the obvious ones) that new proposals should adhere to?
I am involved in the the currently proposed Q&A site Buddhism, and as a user who is relatively new to Stack Exchange I'm learning e.g. there what does and what does not seem to work in Stack ...
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Suggestion to Change the Title of the Existing English Forum
I support the idea to create a new forum for ESL people. On the other hand, the title of the existing English forum, English Language and Usage, becomes somewhat misleading in that case.
I naturally ...
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Duplicate of Linguistics
Proposal: Etymology
Questions about the etymology of words, or about the field of etymology, are already on-topic on the Linguistics beta site. The etymology tag is among the most-used tags there.
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I think Arabic language Q&A should support RTL design
Proposal: Arabic Language
I think this website should support the RTL design in general (the look & feel), and support combined text (English & Arabic) in questions and answers.
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Why should this be launch while there are lots of LDS questions on Christianity.SE?
Proposal: Mormonism
lds is one of the most frequented tags on Christianity.SE. How is this not just its subgroup? If it is, I'd vote for close - splitting Christianity.SE community just because ...
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We need more diversity, talk to your colleagues!! (About perceived duplicates and unsuccessful proposals)
First of all I'll say I love love love StackExchange. And I think it'd be awesome if communities from more fields of knowledge would spill their expertise to the CC internet.
TL;DR
We should be ...
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Is the 'Yoga and Meditation' proposal really also about meditation?
Proposal: Yoga and Meditation
The proposal name is 'Yoga and Meditation', but in the proposal description I only read about Yoga. There is no mention of meditation. Is this site really about both, or ...
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This proposal is not a dupe
Proposal: French language
I don't agree that this is a duplicate of 'correct French usage'. It's a more generic forum that covers that, and translations. It seems too granular to split French ...
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If you're asking about a historical society, surely it'd be on topic on the existing History site?
Proposal: Indus Valley Civilization (Ancient India)
This seems like it should be on topic on History.SE.
Is there a reason we need a site for a specific civilization?
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Expand the proposal to a taxonomically broader scope
What do you mean by "Alternate?" No matter how you look at it, though, I'm pretty sure it's already covered.
If you mean fictional histories, I would say they belong at scifi.stackexchange.com.
If ...
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Is it encouraged to discuss topics related to Literary Chinese(文言文) here?
Proposal: Chinese Language & Usage
Although we chinese seldom use Literary Chinese in ordinary life, there are still many words or usage from Literary Chinese. I think it is good to learn some.
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Could be a good idea the creation of a proposal for disabilities issue?
I'm speaking about this thing:
Where do a user can ask something about disabilities? Some thing like, for a "normal" person; "how does the screen readers work on Chrome?" Or, for a blind person, "Can ...
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Would the user that proposed this, consider broadening the topic a bit?
Proposal: Samoan Language
The Sanskrit language proposal is looking after 2 months like it won't get enough attention to survive the Definition phase, and discussions have already been started about ...
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Germanic languages
In learning the West Frisian language I'm amazed at how, after learning the pronunciation of the Frisian alphabet, how closely related is English and Frisian grammar and vocabulary. So much so that ...
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Would a general Languages.SE site be feasible?
There seems to be a lot of language sites not surviving. Perhaps a solution is to create a Languages.SE (or Polyglot.SE) site where:
Each question has a unique, required language tag. [In addition ...
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Would the person that proposed this, consider expanding the scope to “Scandinavian Languages”?
Proposal: Danish Language
Please see: Would a shared SE for Scandinavian languages make sense?
And: What are the advantages of single language sites over collective ones?
If you see the "Sanskrit ...
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Wouldn't a single location for questions on Germanic languages and dialects be more beneficial to scholars than individual websites?
I would like to propose an omnibus "Germanic Languages and Dialects" category. The category would have tags that can help scholars link specific Germanic languages, dialects, their grammar, syntax, ...
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Upvote not giving rep
I wrote an example question for my Dream Interpretation proposal which was downvoted then immediately upvoted back to zero. However, it appears I am still carrying the downvote but not the upvote. Is ...
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Чи можна вводити типові питання українською мовою? / What languages can I use in example questions for the proposed “Ukrainian Language” site?
Чи можна вводити типові питання для запропонованого сайту “Ukrainian Language” українською мовою?
What languages can I use in example questions for the proposed “Ukrainian Language” site?
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Proposal: International Scouting
I think it would be nice to have a StackExchange site for scouting (http://www.scout.org/). There could be tags in the site representing questions specific to a certain country (e.g. Boy Scouts of ...
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Would questions about exams on topic?
Proposal: Language Learning
Some examples:
Do I need a TOEFL to study in Canada?
TOEFL vs IELTS?
Why doesn't GRE Physics have on my country?
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A way to have a translation of some terms, طريقة للإتفاق على ترجمة بعض المصطلحات
Proposal: Arabic Language
أقترح أن يكون بالإمكان مناقشة بعض المصطلحات لإيجاد بعض التوافق بين الناطقين بالعربية و هذا نظرا لأنّ كثيرا من المصطلحات المستعلملة و خاصة في الأنظمة مثل ويندوز و أندرويد لا ...
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Scripts other than English
Suppose we are proposing a new language site. Would it be okay or even preferable to have scripts other than English? I think it would be better as it lead to more use of the language the site ...
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Duplicate of SFF.SE
Proposal: Star Wars
This is entirely cvered by BOTH Science Fiction and Fantasy and Movies SE.
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Why is a propsed site still on the list and in definition stage?
I tried to create an English and Chinese Cross Learning site. It is closed already due to duplication, which is fair as I did not make a distinction. I hope to target beginners with less academia ...
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In which category shall I put a proposal about comics and cartoons?
In which category to put a proposal about comics and cartoons? Perhaps in the "Culture" category?
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Can I discuss/ask about the relationship between composer's life and their song style?
Proposal: Music Fans
As this forum is titled "Music Fans", while music and songs are written by composers who most likely get their inspiration from their lives/philosophical principles/sociocultural ...
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Is it possible to integrate a keyboard for sites of Languages with non Latin script?
For sites like Russia SE, Arabic SE etc, is it possible to integrate a respective keyboard to the sites?
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director specific site; where would you start
I'm curious whether there would be interest in director-specific stackexchange sites (or what the process would even be). Something like hitchcock.stackexchange.com?
I have looked at movies....
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Move 'Bharat' to 'Culture' category?
Proposal: Bharat
While creating the proposal, I failed to notice that i have selected wrong category i.e. 'Life'. Please move it to 'Culture' category?
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Maybe it dosn't fit, but this is ok
I'm pledging my support for this idea, it's such a good one.
Maybe the ideas of this tend away from the usual SE format, but maybe in this case and this case alone this is ok. I hope SE is flexible ...
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Is this just for within the legal boundaries of the city, or are the suburbs included?
Proposal: Philadelphia
Do questions about the outlying suburbs count as on-topic? Is City Line Ave. the boundary, or can questions cover topics that include areas like Bala Cynwyd, Belmont Hills, ...
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How is it helpful to the proposal to downvote without commenting the reason?
The purpose of upvoting and downvoting during this period is to establish what are good and bad types of questions for the future site. If you downvote something without explaining why, you are ...
