We have tags "translation" and "english-to-russian". They now cover the same questions, and it's not good.
What do you think we should do about it?
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I support it. It would be nice if you split the post into the question and the proposed answer, so that people can vote for it or propose their own ones.– texnicCommented Jul 17, 2012 at 7:25
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I suggest that
- we keep "translation" for questions like "How do you say X in Russian";
- we remove "english-to-russian";
- we add tags such as "English", "German", "French", "Spanish" and so on specifically for questions that involve other languages. They would cover not only the cases of translating language-specific words into Russian (such as "How do you write West-End: "Уэст-Энд" or "Вест-Энд"), but also all kind of special loanwords from these languages, similarity in syntax, and so on.
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For per-language tags, that's what we do on French Language. A tag like german basically means “you are more likely to be interested in this question if you speak German”. On the other hand, we use translation in both directions, in principle only when the question is in principle about translation. “How do you say X in Russian” isn't really a translation question, it's a question about how to say something in Russian and is best tagged according to what the difficulty is (a vocabulary domain, a point of grammar, …). Commented Jul 27, 2012 at 21:12