Hello everyone, I hope you’re all having a great day!
Today I’ve got a small announcement that we’ve just finished working on the formatting of grammar point example sentences and study questions!
The short and sweet of it is, I’ve gone through all of the example sentences found under the ‘Examples’ tab for all the grammar points and adjusted their formatting to improve consistency across the site.
To go into a bit more detail, this consisted of a lot of smaller changes that, although considered minor by some, we felt could use adjusting. Some of the smaller changes included the normalizing and addition of punctuation marks such as English and Japanese quotation marks, colons, commas and periods.
For example while going through everything I noticed there were many example sentences which used direct quotations that were missing either Japanese quotation marks 「 」, or colons. Those have since been added to provide improved clarity and context to the examples.
Another thing that was adjusted at this time was the use of different countries’ English. Some words that were previously written using the U.K. spelling have been changed over to the U.S. spelling. This ranges from simple words like doughnut → donut, to more subtle changes like the use of the double l in words such as ‘skillful’ or the move from s → z for words such as ‘apologize’. While we understand that there is no standard or correct English between the two, we felt that having a more consistent approach would be beneficial for everyone here, especially our non-native English users.
Overall we hope that this leads to a more clean and consistent experience for all of our amazing users and as always thank you all so much for you continued support!