Tag Housekeeping Requests

Question

This is a page where simple tag housekeeping can be requested. If you have an idea for, for example, a tag synonym, this is a good place to record it.

If your simple request turns out to need more discussion than you thought it would (e.g. more than a couple of little comments), then that item should be moved to a separate Meta question of its own.

After some opportunity for discussion and voting on the proposals, moderators will proceed as follows:

• If consensus has been reached, moderators will carry out any necessary changes and add the tag status-completed.
• otherwise, the tag status-declined will be added.

To keep the post clean, answers marked will be deleted after some time (users with enough reputation still can see those answers, so there is no doubt they are still reachable in case of need.)

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Note: please avoid making new requests in comments. Each request should be posted as a new answer to allow users to properly notice, discuss and vote the proposal.

Answer 1

Creation of the tag español rioplatense, for the español rioplatense dialect , which includes regions of Argentina and Uruguay. The tag Argentina or Uruguay alone wouldnt be correct if the word is from the español rioplatense dialect, or both of the tags should always be included.

Answer 2

There is a tag, uso-de-palabras, which seems equivalent to meaning-in-context. Could these be made synonyms? (With uso-de-palabras as the primary tag.)

Answer 3

_{Movida la primera parte a Traduzcamos toda la lista de etiquetas predeterminadas de Meta}

Creo que etiquetas como housekeeping, asking-questions o reference no son representativas, sino algo así como meta etiquetas que bien podrían eliminarse.

Answer 4

We have formal but not the opposite. I propose we have one tag for the whole issue of formal mode of address vs. informal. So, I'm suggesting all of the following be synonyms of each other: tutear
usted
mode-of-address
formal
informal

Answer 5

En La Tertulia, un participante propuso:

Que los tags extranjerismos y palabras-extranjeras sean sinónimos.

Otro opinó:

Según lo que explica la RAE en Tratamiento de los extranjerismos, yo entendería palabras-extranjeras como el subconjunto extranjerismos crudos.

Ahorita hay tres preguntas etiquetadas con palabras-extranjeras.

Answer 6

We have a bit of a mess with foreign words. There's extranjerismos -- very nice. But we need to define a synonym that incorporates "foreign" -- maybe foreign-words. I think I need help from the moderators for this.

Also, there is another tag that appears to be redundant, palabras-extranjeras. My guess is, this should be made a synonym of extranjerismos.

Answer 7

Do we have a tag for questions about the second person plural, and how in some areas this is expressed with ustedes and in some, vosotros? If not, we need one! But I don't know what to call it. It's a major difference between Old World and New World Spanish, so it's important.

We already have a tag for ustedeo, but it means something else:

Preguntas sobre el uso del pronombre "usted" como segunda persona del singular / Questions about the usage of the pronoun 'usted' to refer to the second person of the singular

(By the way, I'm going to try to modify that definition, to insert the concept of formality.)

Answer 8

I think we need a tag for the concept of the omitted subject. This is a special grammatical concept of Spanish that is interesting and important for Spanish learners, and therefore we have plenty of questions about this. Example: usted and its usage

I'm not sure what to call it.

Answer 9

This is not urgent but I'm writing it now so I won't forget. Could we please have a tag for datives that would point to objetos-indirectos?

Answer 10

I think we need a tag for paradoxical gender (e.g. la mano) and maybe a separate one for feminine nouns that start with a vowel and therefore use the masculine article in the singular, e.g. agua, asa. I'm not sure what to call them. The first could be género-paradójico but I have no idea what to suggest for the other.

Answer 11

Question: why are expresión and modismo not synonymous? When I look at the definitions, they seem to be interchangeable. Is it just me who can't find much of a difference between the two?