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It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...

I asked a question titled as "When to use “à” and “de” after adjective (e.g. impossible, difficile)? " and it got closed as a duplicate. However, the linked question is written in French titled as "...

Et recel d'idéalisme + incitation au jugement de valeur... ;-) Horresco referens! Yo! Malgré l'accroche provo pour le plaisir et la galerie... ceci n'est que broutilles mais comme j'ai bien noté qu'...

Dans le cadre d'une réponse à une question, est-il autorisé d'insérer un lien vers une ressource que l'on soupçonne fortement de ne pas respecter les copyrights ?

Je ne trouve pas de réponse à cette question dans le « help center », ni à partir des « tags »; quelle rubrique comporte ce code et possiblement tous les codes couleur de cette sorte et autres codes?

Cette question « meta » concerne seulement les corrections sur le fond et pas du tout sur la forme. La possibilité matérielle qu'a un auteur de corriger ses propres réponses n'implique apparemment pas ...

I have this question I would like to ask on the main site, but I don't think it is ideally fit for a question per-se, it is more like something I'd be curious about. I was thinking of making it a ...

L'apparence et l'interface de notre site viennent de changer. Il s'agit d'une vague de changements qui concerne tous les sites du réseau Stack Exchange. Quelques sites avaient déjà la nouvelle ...

Les questions ici sont-elles juste des questions en lien avec la langue française, ou peut-on aussi poser des questions à propos de programmation en français? Je pose cette question, car j'ai vu qu'...

According to the Help Center: What about translations? We are not a translation service, nor do we purport to be experts in languages other than French. Asking about the meaning of a difficult ...

I want to translate the word "boilerplate" but no as in the general meaning but in the programming context, as in "boiletplate code". There is already a question with the general way : Comment ...

Bonjour, En me baladant sur l'Area 51, j'ai vu que la beta avait commencé il y a plus de six ans, sans jamais en sortir. Les critères ont plutôt l'air en forme, bien que le nombre de questions par ...

I ask this question because, in my opinion, it is painfully telling (of what, I’m not sure, hence the question) about many of this site’s visitors and at least one of its registered voters when an ...

Les questions portant sur l'usage et la grammaire des articles sont identifiées par l'étiquette articles. Je me demande si nous devrions créer des étiquettes plus précises, comme article-défini, ...

I am wondering if very localized questions that would not be use to other people are okay to ask on French Language Stack Exchange. I have read many grammar websites, but often I come across ...

Si on décidait de citer un extrait du contenu d'un site web, ou d'utiliser les données ou informations qui s'y trouvent, quel genre de notice ou d'attribution devrait-on inclure et comment la présente-...

A few days ago, when I saw this question ("Radio or podcasts for French language learners?"), I was quite sure it will be closed as opinion-based or too broad or something like that. And in fact (...

This recent answer made me wondering about a point: is it good to provide an answer if the main part of it is actually provided by a link. I mean, this particular answer is good, itself (I don't want ...

I have a question about my French Language Stack Exchange post: Is this the correct way to see the differences between tant / autant / tellement / si / aussi? I made this summary based on several ...

It seems this question hasn't been asked on this meta (or I was not able to find it): is it allowed (or good, or acceptable) to provide an answer in the comments? This question has been asked on ...

Le titre de plusieurs questions est "Comment X génère-t-il le sens de Y ?" A ma connaissance, "générer" est un anglicisme pour engendrer, et de toute façon "Comment X engendre-t-il le sens de Y" est ...

Suite a une question sur le chat pour confirmer une traduction d'entrée en matière j'en suis venu à me demander quelle était la position du site sur une revue de traduction comme cela peut se faire en ...

I'm not using this website very often but as far as I noticed it seems like the "Be Nice" policy of Stack Exchange is not enforced here as it is on other Stack websites. For example in this question ...

Pour cette réponse, j'ai refusé la modification (version 2), car je croyais que c'était une injuste révision de l'opinion de l'auteur quant à la description de la particularité du français décrit. ...

I saw this question concerning worthy French writers has been put on hold, though I believed it could be useful and generate a few good recognized authors most people would agree on. Since reading ...

Any thoughts on bringing translation golf to French? After all, the same claim is made about the ratio of French to English words needed to say the same thing. It could be fun to put it to the test. ...

Concerning this question: Confusion with que / qui / dont / où OP asked a question that appeared to be homework. S/he was told it was unsuitable. OP vandalized the question. As close votes are ...

If one partially answers a request that contained many questions, then work out more of the questions, what would be the best way to include the new work? Edit the original answer, with the risk of ...

J'ai posté une réponse hier qui a fini par recevoir un downvote sans explications. J'ai cru comprendre en lisant certains posts en meta que cette communauté bénéficierait à recevoir plus de membres ...

Est-ce que la question sur le français en Belgique est vraiment indésirable sur french.SE? Cette question-ci: French in Belgium. Il s'agit bien d'une questions sur le français, même si ce n'est pas ...

Ce site est encore en phase beta, aussi je me permets de poser cette question au sens large; de poser une question par rapport à la définition même de ce qu'est french.stackexchange.com. En lisant ...

Je viens de rejoindre la communauté French Language, et je me demandais si les membres se tutoyaient ou se vouvoyaient dans les questions/réponses. En effet, c'est une question qui n'a pas lieu d'...

My comments were all removed under an answer to a question as someone decided they had become off-topic or there were too many of them. They were not transferred to chat. In fact, they were not off ...

Welcome to the question and answer site about the French language! I think that is not phrased properly. I would phrase it: Welcome to the site for questions and answers about the French language.

Il arrive des cas comme cette question où la personne pose la question à la fois en français et en anglais. Dans un tel cas, quel est le meilleur comportement à adopter ? Faut-il répondre en Français, ...

J'ai vu sur ce site plusieurs questions du type "Existe-t-il ... ?" qui n'ont aucune réponse acceptée, et qui n'en auront peut-être jamais. Le problème, c'est que si la réponse est non, on ne pourra ...

Bonjour, J'ai découvert ce Stack il y a quelques temps et je me demandais pourquoi ne metterions-nous pas une citation en Français sur la page d'accueil chaque jour. Les utilisateurs pourraient y ...

En parcourant les vieux sujets, j'ai vu que le fait que le site soit toujours en bêta tient au fait qu'il n'y a pas forcément suffisamment de trafic en regard des exigences de l'hébergeur Stack ...

Je m'amusais un peu avec les tags du site méta, et je m'aperçois qu'il manque le tag accepted-question, qui existe sur d'autres métas, pour classer les questions relatives à quel genre de question ...

Next to the "review" button I have a "5" icon, saying there are 5 posts awaiting review, but when I click on it and go to https://french.stackexchange.com/review there is no post to review. It's all "...

In my previous question, I mentioned that I find the tag études ambiguous. As Stéphane Gimenez pointed out, the tag études has mainly been used for questions about studying or learning the ...

The tag études does not have a tag wiki excerpt. The tag sounds ambiguous to me: Does it refer to studying or learning the French language? Does it refer to scientific / linguistic studies ...

I would like to know how often you find your solution in an existing question before asking yours. The philosophy of SE is to build a library of questions, and (I think !) the primary goal is to have ...

Some Background I am a Computer Science major in the United States with a passion for the French Language. I find frequently that I do not have the vocabulary to express myself (as with an foreign ...

I realize that this is only a beta version of the website, but if it gets finished, will they publish a French interface of this Stackexchange website as well? It only makes sense, as maybe native ...

In this question, I asked something about the sentence En avez-vous d'autres? I got a nice answer though, it seems that I didn't do a very good job for asking what exactly I didn't understand. In ...

As a French native speaker (from France) I'm sometimes surprised to read answers that go against what seems right to me spontaneously. Obviously the most frequent reason is that the answer comes from ...

I want to see if I'm allowed to ask such a question in the main site? Would you please translate the following paragraphs into French? a proposal for creating a remote sensing and ...

Though the OP might not have known a priori, a posteriori this question concerns 2 different syntaxes, as proven by this answer's bifurcation.

For the most part, the text of the help center is the same on every Stack Exchange site. This is unfortunate because some sites, including French Language, have specific requirements. In particular, ...