Questions tagged [culture]
The Culture category includes proposals in subjects like language, religion, society, groups, and politics.
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Drawing the lines between ELL and EL&U
Proposal: English Language Learners
Since the proposal has been re-opened and given the excitement its closure caused, I think it is appropriate to further discuss the delineation between ELL and EL&...
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What are the advantages of single language sites over collective ones?
It has already been asked at the current Lojban proposal, but not at the Esperanto and Constructed Languages proposals, why it would make more sense to have a SE site dedicated to this single ...
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Defining topicality
Proposal: English Language Learners
How shall we clearly define what is on-topic for this site and what is confusing enough that it should properly go to English Language and Usage?
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Is a mass down vote vandalism
Proposal: *Atheism and Agnosticism *
It appears that someone came through and down voted pretty much every question in the last few hours. I don't see any offered rational, so it would seem to be an ...
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Is creation of new language-devoted sites still allowed after the "Internationalization 'State of the Stack' - SE 2.0 Sites edition" was issued?
I ask not about sites like "Programming (in Chinese)" and "Cooking (in French)", but about sites devoted to specific language like German Language or Spanish Language.
Important point: I assume that ...
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ماذا سنفعل بالمشاركات التي تنسخ العربية بحروف أجنبية؟ What to do about transliterated posts
Proposal: Arabic Language
ماذا سنفعل بالمشاركات -خاصة الأسئلة- التي تنسخ العربية بحروف لغة اخرى؟ فمثلا السؤال:
What is the difference between the usage of 'Rasoolahu' and
'Rasoolihi'?
يسأل عن ...
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كيف نوازن بين مستويات المستخدمين؟ How do we balance the levels of users?
Proposal: Arabic Language
هذا الموقع ستجمع -بمشيئة الله- صنفان رئيسان من الناس، هما:
العلماء
الطلاب
والطلاب صنفان:
صنف تتكلم العربية أصلا
صنف لا تتكلم العربية أصلا
وكل صنف على مستويات متفرقة، ...
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Should every question for Arabic Language have an English translation?
Proposal: Arabic Language
Since the proposal for the Arabic Language is also for learners/beginners, does it make sense to have questions only in Arabic, without any English translation, as short as ...
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Country specific Proposal
Would it be a good idea to have a proposal about a specific country. The questions in it can be about their culture, history, policies etc.
I can see religion specific proposal in Area-51, such as on ...
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Reinstating the English Learners' Proposal
Proposal: English Language Learners
Following the conclusion of the Definition phase, this proposal was recently closed in support of our English SE site. After a lot of discussion here and ...
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Bottom Falling Out
Proposal: English as a Second Language
ESL will provide a venue for questions that are too basic for EL&U, but how does the new site draw the line for itself?
In the parent site, relatively easy ...
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Is this only about the Latin language or also about its contexts?
Proposal: Latin Language
Should this site be only about the Latin language, its grammar and its styles? Or are questions about its context also ontopic:
Latin literature (eg discussion of various ...
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What should define Mythology?
Proposal: Mythology
What should Mythology be about? How can we make sure it stays on topic?
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ترجمة اﻷسئلة واﻷجوبة الانجليزية translate english?
Proposal: Arabic Language
يبدو لي حين نطلع إلى البيتا أنه سيوجد أسئلة مطروحة في غير العربية وكذلك اﻷجوبة، فهل علينا أن نشترط لكل شي غير عربية أن تترجم إلى العربية؟
translate:
I see that when the ...
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Can we ask word-meaning or basic grammar rules here?
Since Arabic SE will be a Q&A site for non-native & native Arabic Language learners,
can we ask meaning of an Arabic word?
Can we ask to explain the grammar of a sentence?
Can we ask questions ...
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Do questions have to be in English?
Do questions have to be written in English? Or is asking in other languages ok?
Proposal: English Language Learners
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Are English questions allowed about Arabic
Proposal: Arabic Language
Would this proposal allow English questions about Arabic?
For example:
How could I tell whether تَنَاوَلْتُ is past I or present she?
All I have seen so far are peple ...
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How are we going to tackle the problem caused by BIDI languages?
Since Persian is a right-to-left language and English is left-to-right, their combination either doesn't work or does not look good. What are you going to do about this issue?
Proposal: Persian ...
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Merging All the Language Proposals into one language website
Proposal: German language
I was wondering if we should make one language SE site, where all these matters are discussed e.g; Translation from Language A to B, Grammar and Usage issue, instead of ...
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Should the person who starts a proposal be automatically a moderator?
For the Proposal of Mythology.
Should the person who started a proposal automatically become a moderator? If I make a proposal I want it to be a website in which I and others feel comfortable.
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On the Closure of English Language Learners [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
English Language Learners Continues…
Proposal: English Language Learners
I wasn't sure about the need for this site when it was proposed. But in keeping with the spirit and ...
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Why will this dupe of Atheism succeed where the former beta failed?
Proposal: Atheism/Agnosticism
This has been tried before at http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2732/atheism.
As that page says,
The Atheism site didn't have enough activity during the ...
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Christianity: Are rational questions allowed?
Proposal: Christianity
Should this also allow questions that critically ask about the validity of the Christian faith, the Christian bible history and such? And questions about what the bible says ...
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Default Language for Questions in Portuguese
The Portuguese Site is at the Proposal Phase. Some questions are entirely written in Portuguese (I think it is wrong) and some others in English (what I think is correct because Stack Exchange is a ...
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Would a general Languages.SE supersite (synchronized with the current language sites) be feasible?
If people are interested in this, please 🅼🅰🅺🅴 🅽🅾🅸🆂🅴; I suggest describing your interests and expertise in an answer: the proposal (once proposed) will be immediately closed if there's no pre-...
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Isn't Buddhism a Religion?
Proposal: Buddhism
Shouldn't the description for Buddhism at least include the word religion? I understand this is controversial from the POV of many Western practitioners but Buddhism is a religion ...
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Why limit the new group to ESL?
Proposal: English as a Second Language
People often ask questions which are too basic for ELU, though the people asking are not ESL students. Why not broaden the new group to accept all basic ...
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Should Ethics be allowed?
Proposal: Veganism and Vegetarianism
When I originally created the proposal I was advised to disallow ethical questions as the tend to be opinionated and subjective.
However, it's inevitable that ...
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Pertinent quaestiōnēs linguā Latīnā? Eās ut nōn hortēmur?
Proposal: Latin Language
Or in English: Are questions in Latin on topic? Should we encourage that? And how about answers in Latin?
I'm currently imagining latin.stackexchange.com as having a similar ...
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How to deal with dialects?
Proposal: Arabic Language
This question recently made me wonder about this proposal: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/62022/arabic-language/67683#67683 whereby it essentially asks for a map ...
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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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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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How is this going to differ from knowyourmeme.com?
What's to stop this site from just posting answers copied from knowyourmeme.com?
Proposal: Memes
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"New" Latin words
Proposal: Latin Language
Is it acceptable to ask or answer using terms from neo-Latin and Contemporary Latin (created to describe more modern things or ideas)? For instance, Contemporary Latin has a ...
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Qur'an reciting (Tajweed) related questions - أسئلة في التجويد
Are questions related to Tajweed of Qur'an on-topic on Arabic Language; since Islam covers questions related to Fiqh
هل تعتبر الأسئلة المتعلقة باحكام تجويد القرآن الكريم ملائمة لموقع اللغة العربية؟
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Is there interest in a general "Semitic languages" site?
Proposal: Hebrew Language
Proposal: Arabic language (اللغة العربية)
Both of these proposals have been proposed before but were closed, and are now only in the definition phase. Moreover, it's a pity ...
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Are questions about specific languages on topic?
Proposal: Language Learning
There are lots of language specific proposals on area 51, does this matter? Can people ask about language specific things on this site?
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Why did the previous proposal fail and how can we avoid it
Proposal: Italian Language & Usage
The previous proposal failed after 2 years at some 60ish percent commitment I think. What were the reasons and how do you think we can avoid it this time
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Five more people for the Portuguese Language proposal
Proposal: Portuguese Language
At the time of writing, we've gathered 108 followers and have 38 out of 40 questions with 10 votes or more.
We have less than five days left to find (& upvote!) 2 ...
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How is this different than Philosophy?
Proposal: Ethics
Especially considering that ethics is within the bounds of the philosophy site, now in an open beta?
ethics — the nature of the right thing to do
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When will this site begin?
Site: literature.
The Literature proposal now has 210 committers but the beta site has not yet started. Am I missing anything or it's going to begin soon?
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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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Islam: Only answers with references to credible sources should be allowed in this site otherwise they'll be chaos
In a QnA site for religion only answers with references to credible sources should be allowed in this site otherwise they'll be chaos.
There should be no personal opinion questions or answers.
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Questions about Arabic orthography
Proposal: Arabic Language
Are questions about the Arabic writing system and orthography within the scope of this site? I mean questions like the placement of vowel marks, the dots under “ي” or the ...
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Would it be a better idea to propose "Indian Languages"?
I remember that there was a proposal like "Indian Languages" may be deleted due to inactivity. And there was a question like "support Indian Language proposal instead of initiating separate" which ...
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How broad is the site?
Proposal: India
I am feeling like the site is too broad, since asking questions about each and everything related to India would be too fragmented. Can we have a list of topics which should be there ...
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Які мови дозволятимуться на сайті? / What languages will be allowed for use in questions and answers within the proposed "Ukrainian Language" site?
Якими мовами можна буде писати запитання і відповіді на запропонованому сайті "Ukrainian Language"?
What languages will be allowed for use in questions and answers within the proposed "Ukrainian ...
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Jainism and Cārvāka
Proposal: Hinduism
Is Jainism and Nastik (Atheist) Hindu philosophy such as Cārvāka also in the scope of this proposal?
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Long marks in posts?
Proposal: Latin Language
So I've seen that some questions have macrons in them. How necessary will they be?
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Biblical Hermeneutics as a subset of Christianity?
Proposal: Biblical Hermeneutics looks like it's explicitly about Christianity, and I believe it would be best merged with the Christianity proposal.
Although honestly, I'd probably prefer to see a ...
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