Update - Grammar Formatting Adjustments October/02/2023

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!

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doughnut → donut

This is the most reluctantly I have ever hearted an update (笑)

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This one brings me joy. I bet this took ages but a very big change in the scope of it all. Thank you!

Despair. Bring back the Queen’s english! :smiley:

In fact based on the above point, please can we ensure that when using the “English: Traditional” way of speaking as opposed to the “English: Simplified” that it actually marks the answer as correct? Most of them do but there’s still quite a few that mark the answer as incorrect and it’s killing me having to answer these in “English: Simplified” as I don’t know how to spell most things in American. Thanks!

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Cracking open a can of highly concentrated freedom to celebrate.

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As someone that learned The Queen’s English, but can sympathize with the struggle of non-natives, I disapprovingly approve of this post :triumph:.

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Long live the Queen! …Wait…

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A formatting aspect that I’d love to see addressed is how the centered alignment of the review text moves around when inputting an answer, making the experience more frantic than it needs to be.
There is no straight-forward solution as far as I can tell, but some ideas are:

  • option for aligning reviews to left instead of center
  • generally separate the input field from the rest of the sample sentences by newlines before and after the underlined input box
  • option to not preview the answer inside the example sentence, have it only in the input box at the bottom (probably the easiest to implement)
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Thanks for the update write-up, @Keaka -san!

:smiley: :popcorn:I always love this part! :nerd_face: Thanks again!

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