<p>I've argued the other way in the thread cited, both by commenting against this point of view and by answering the question. </p>

<p>But we can agree that questions such as these do seem to straddle a border. The question is how much of the question is on each side. </p>

<p>My position is pragmatic. If a usage question is only in small part about meanings or senses that are statistical, then I agree that it belongs elsewhere. Where the primary thrust of the question is statistical, and we can reckon that the answer should be of use or interest to many people here, then it should stay. Thus a question about cause, say, would have some statistical flavour, but more crucially is common to many sciences, and indeed disciplines, so the grounds for keeping it would not be clear; but this question to me seems firmly in our camp. </p>

<p>The fact that the question is phrased in English is incidental here; that's the language of the forum any way. </p>
