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Related to the questions about vocabulary which should be answerable by simply looking in a dictionary, should there be a limit on very basic questions?
Examples of questions which may be too basic:
- How do you form the future tense of the word kuras?
- What are the personal pronouns in Esperanto?
- Is it mi havas hundo or mi havas hundon?
It seems to me that Stack Exchange should not be a beginner's course in Esperanto - and there are already good ways to get questions like the above answered. They're highly individual as well, so keeping them around to be reused doesn't have as much value.
What do you mean with "highly individual"? Ideally, any response would answer the question universally and explain the accusative etc. As Vanege writes below, new, similar questions will then be marked as duplicates.–None–2016-11-02T15:40:19.223
I think you caught my meaning. When a person is learning Esperanto, they have a lot of questions like "why does this sentence have an -n here" and "why is there no -n here". As for closing questions as dups, I'm not sure how that would work. That's like holding a class and the teacher answering "read the book."–None–2016-11-02T16:55:05.840
We add a link to the "canonical question" saying it is a duplicate of that one and they find their answer there. :-)–None–2016-11-02T17:27:43.557
This is interesting, btw: http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/3131–None–2016-11-03T13:56:54.717
And do look at this about "closing too easy questions": http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/3251–None–2016-11-03T14:00:51.110
1http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/3131 is about Stack Overflow and programming languages which in most cases don't allow to introduce new words in the grammar. What said there is not valid for natural languages, nor for sites about a single language.–None–2016-12-22T06:53:00.580