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The Culture category includes proposals in subjects like language, religion, society, groups, and politics.

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Bottom Falling Out

Common Pop-culture references that sound like outlandish idioms. Metaphors based on national culture. …
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Putting a floor under Grammar questions

1) It should be definitely something a language learner can absorb whole in one sitting. (not learn/remember but get enough to know "I saw this in that resource page; I can re-visit that entry and rea …
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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 ha …
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Why not combine "English Language Learners" with EL&U?

My personal opinion? There will be no fragmentation in the end. Simply, ELU will die out. Their standards for questions are so ridiculously narrow, with anything "too basic" being unwelcome, anything …
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What about homeworks?

We are bound to get smartasses who will want us to do their school homeworks for them eventually. Their questions will be sufficiently nontrivial, they are unlikely to meet any common closure criteria …
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Will proofreading be allowed on ELL?

I think it would make sense if we put a limit of one sentence, not an overly long and complex too. More sentences are allowed only to give context to particular proofread sentence, but not subject to …
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Drawing the lines between ELL and EL&U

meanings/usages of obscure or archaic words The problem is learners often don't know the word is obscure or archaic (and use it in common speech and sound like morons!). I think recommending a br …
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