Tags for when a language is referenced

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The French Stack Exchange site has a nice tag anglais to mark questions that refer to the English language (such as “how do you translate this English phrase?”). It also has other tags for German, Italian etc.

I think this is something people might want to follow. For example, a German speaker might want to follow the German questions and jump in when a question is asked about a German expression.

Should we create these tags and then retrospectively add them to all of the appropriate questions?

asked 2016-09-21T12:34:42.367

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2I support this proposal.–None–2016-10-10T14:06:18.150

+1 for the idea, but there probably needs to be a limit on what kind of languages count. I doubt myself tagging something [tag:czech] would bring any help but clutter.–None–2016-12-13T22:14:30.537

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There is no need for a tag, in this case. As long as the language is specified in the title, the search engine is able to find all the questions referring a language in the title. For example, I can find all the questions containing Esperanto in the title.

asked 2016-09-21T12:34:42.367

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1An advantage of having a tag over having the language in the title is that it’s possible for people to favourite the tag and get a list of the questions. There are plenty of examples of questions that don’t mention the language in the title (and some don’t mention it at all):

http://esperanto.stackexchange.com/questions/1058/how-is-an-emergency-translated-into-esperanto (German) http://esperanto.stackexchange.com/questions/295/how-does-one-say-what-do-you-mean-in-esperanto (Bulgarian)–None–2016-09-27T16:53:54.137

Since we would be adding the tag to the existing questions, we can instead edit the title. Tags don't exist just to be used as favourites; if that is the only reason for the the tag to exist, then something is wrong. I doubt users are going to favourite such tags, thought.–None–2016-09-28T06:09:50.713