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Tagged with grammar feature-request
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Please fix the grammar on the first sentence of the Stack Exchange Network description popup
Currently, when you click the button towards the top left saying "Stack Exchange", a popup titled "Stack Exchange Network" appears. Below it, it says (emphasis added by me):
Stack ...
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Make tooltip text ending on user tab sorting order consistent. Only the "participation" tab contains dot at the end
Tooltip for "participation" tab contains the . at the end, but there's no dot for all other tabs:
I suggest to remove it here as well. Adding the dot to the all other instead I can't ...
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Capitalization for image placeholder
I found out that in process of posts improvement by this user, the phrase "enter image description here" used as a default image description placeholder is often (always?) being capitalized ...
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Settings are inconsistent on whether descriptions end in periods or not
On the user settings page (your Meta SE one is here) the smaller-font descriptions sometimes end in periods and sometimes don't. This guidance says "Don’t use periods in interface copy unless it’...
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Make full stop usage consistent in badge descriptions
In the Badges page, out of the 80+ badge descriptions, only 5 have full stops, and the others don't have.
The five are: Fanatic, Enthusiast, and the three Tag Badges, it can be seen here:
Can this ...
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"This question doesn't meet a <SITE> guideline" is incorrect if site name begins with a vowel sound
I was reviewing close votes on Ask Ubuntu, and noticed a grammatical error in the reasoning message:
Currently, it says:
This question doesn't meet a Ask Ubuntu guideline
It should say:
This ...
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AI for proper grammar and spelling
I've noticed that there are a lot of people who edit posts. Even though they do an awesome job (I have a large vocabulary, but my grammar could use some work), I've noticed that most of (at least my) ...
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Automatic grammar fixing in questions and answers
I would like to add automatic grammar fix when posting questions or answers.
For example, automatically capitalizes i's, when the letter is used as the word I.
This is something seriously ...
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Unnecessary "and"s in reviewer stats
I've noticed that the reviewer stats in the review queue contain awkward uses of polysyndeton:
user has approved $count edit suggestions and rejected $count edit suggestions and improved $count ...
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possible grammar of "Voting that a post is a duplicate"
Upon voting that a post is a duplicate of another post, a comment under your name is automatically posted that looks something like this:
possible duplicate of "<post_name>"
This is hardly a ...
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Weird grammar on the moderator flag dashboard
I noticed that the /admin/dashboard page has some weird grammar:
Where should I start?
Start at the top. This list is ordered by a combination of number (and type) of issues, the reputation of the ...
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Mass renaming of "How to"-titled questions
Many questions (including mine) happen to be titled How to ... ?, which is not good English.
This is bad.
Maybe that's how I "learned" the "rule" about How to ...? in the first place...
Shall we ...
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Adding grammar / language help to stackexchange
We know that certain people, especially the ones with English as their second language, are struggling to get answers at SO. I happened to notice a fitting example moments ago, here.
All of us could ...
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Grammatical error (inelegance at the very least) in a close reason
I posted this on meta.unix.se but it applies to the whole network so I'm reposting here. One of the canned messages for closing a question reads
Please clarify your specific problem or add additional ...
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Hold questions that use "text speak"?
Would it be possible to hold questions that use "text speak"?
I'm probably showing my age, but I despise reading posts like:
i can't <...>. pls help me. thx u.
Would it be possible to ...
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Is "How to..." a good title?
I see a lot of titles that start with "How to..."
Personally, I think that is a bad title, but in A: How do I write a good title?,
How to UPSERT in Oracle (update or insert into a table)?
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Change wording of "unclear what you're asking"
The current description of "unclear what you're asking" misuses the pronoun "it" in the second sentence, and this issue has really been bugging me. Specifically, the pronoun is being used to refer to ...
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Flag for grammatical review [duplicate]
My first language is not English. It is very helpful when there is a native speaking user that improves the English of my question or answer. This makes my question or answer more helpful and it ...
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Optional writing scanner for lazy writing
In keeping with the community's encouragement of carefully worded questions, I wonder if Stack Overflow could pop up a advisory box with writing tips when certain phrases are detected? My purpose in ...
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Spellchecker / grammar checker [duplicate]
There seems to be a fair few questions and answers on SE sites with simple spelling or grammar mistakes in them, and as I am the sort of person who cares about such things, I used to spend the time ...
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Careers has incorrect grammar in tooltip on My Profile Page
On the page http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/edit, when one is adding experience, with the IsCurrent checkbox ticked and the <input id="tags"> with focus, the class="field-help" for="Tags" ...
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Automatic capitalization of "i" [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can 'u' and 'i' part ways?
I've observed that a significant number of people use "i" instead of "I"
Sample:
i create a iframe to get acess token in facebook ...
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Revival badge description typo
"Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more.
This badge can be awarded multiple times."
Should it maybe be:
Answered more than 30 days later than the first answer, ...
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Can 'u' and 'i' part ways with Stack Exchange?
I appreciate the benefits that the quality filter brings to the site, but I've noticed that posts are still making it through with a lot of lower case 'i' instead of 'I' and 'u' in place of "you".
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Two @/ats, One comment... Change the message?
I just tried to @/at two people in one comment and I think the message reads rather weird:
I am notifying two people, but, this message just reads very weird to me. (Others think the same! I checked ...
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What does "Reputation on deleted posts and votes is not shown here" on the user reputation tab mean?
Reputation on deleted posts and votes is not shown here.
is at the bottom of the Reputation tab of the User page.
I know it means reputation gained or lost on deleted posts is not shown, but I don'...
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Make an alot appear when someone tries asking a question with "alot" in it [closed]
If someone tries to submit a question with "alot" in it, make an alot appear, and tell them to go easy on the alots and ideally improve their spelling and grammar alot.
Thanks alot!
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Can we change "You have 1 new answer; 1 new comment" to something grammatically correct?
When you get new answers and comments, Stack Overflow tells you "You have 1 new answer; 1 new comment." As far as I understand, that's not how semicolons work. Here are a couple suggestions for what ...
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fix-my-english-please tag
I suggest a (special?) tag every non-native English speaker may use to encourage native speakers to fix the spelling and grammar errors one made1.
1 As long as it's relevant to understanding the ...
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Use of login/logout is inconsistent and incorrect
The terms login and logout are used inconsistently and incorrectly. The links up there in the header and the associated buttons should use the verb form log in and log out because they're actions.
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