Timeline for Can we be nicer to folks whose English isn't that great?
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| Dec 12, 2020 at 6:22 | comment | added | M H | For purposes of understandability, accuracy, & readability, editing mildly seems generally reasonable & helpful: eg, where appropriate, typographical adjustments, minor punctuation & capitalisation adjustments, & correction of misspelled words etc, seems adequate, and is constructive & useful. Thank you :) | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 22:44 | answer | added | HackSlash | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 1, 2018 at 12:02 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Cause for what its worth, english is kind of the common language of the internet. What sparked this off was essentially personal attacks. Besides, Its not only ESL folk who have bad english | |
| Apr 1, 2018 at 11:35 | comment | added | Arjan | On the other hand: why would Super User be the only resource for people to get help? I wouldn't dare to ask a question on, say, a French or Portugese website. | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 19:46 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170904-how-americanisms-are-killing-the-english-language> and <https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/08/12/ten-things-you-might-not-have-known-about-the-english-language/>). (its = possessive, it's = "it is" or "it has".)
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| Mar 29, 2018 at 5:08 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | That's one point of view - but the full context, that preferring narrow scopes, which are implicitly things we can fix is important. My goal is literally to raise awareness of a specific issue, in the hopes such things are fixed, commented on or flagged, or better yet people are mindful. If there's a specific class of action I feel is unhealthy, it gets its own question. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 2:47 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @JourneymanGeek In your comment "There's nothing worse than vague complaints." only adds negative/aggressive noise. That's the kind of things I am talking about, and is too often present on Stack Exchange. | |
| Mar 22, 2018 at 22:34 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Honestly? I wanted to narrowly scope a specific issue I saw. There's nothing worse than vague complaints. | |
| Mar 22, 2018 at 20:58 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | I think the title could be "Can we be nicer". At least, neutral. My experience is that many interactions on this website aren't that friendly/neutral. (I'm not here to make friends, but aggressive comments may deviate the attention from the question/answer.) | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 12:23 | answer | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 20, 2018 at 15:09 | comment | added | slhck | Meh, it's really hard to ignore poor English sometimes—especially when it leads to posts that are impossible to answer—but then again we have to accept that we can't teach people another language here. I sometimes suggest people to use Google Translate instead of attempting to formulate the question themselves. | |
| Mar 20, 2018 at 4:22 | history | edited | Journeyman GeekMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited body; edited title
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| Mar 20, 2018 at 4:22 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Only if you called me a terrible person or otherwise insulted me. Now, in a perfect world, you'd go "Oh, let me fix that for OP" ;p .... Do I need to capitalise English language? Or is it English Language? | |
| Mar 20, 2018 at 4:21 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | Would it be too ironic and recursive if I pointed out that, in English, the names of languages (e.g., “English”) are typically capitalized? :-) | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 23:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/975875035050205184 | ||
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:46 | answer | added | allquixotic | timeline score: 39 | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 4:46 | comment | added | Robotnik | Help Center -> Be Nice is relevant here: "Be welcoming, be patient, and assume good intentions. Don't expect new users to know all the rules — they don't. And be patient while they learn. If you're here for help, make it as easy as possible for others to help you. Everyone here is volunteering, and no one responds well to demands for help." | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 3:45 | history | asked | Journeyman GeekMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |