Hi! Recently I’ve been having an embarrassing problem. I often do reviews in public places, including during downtime at my office. But some of the words that have entered my queue recently are, well… a little embarrassing!
For example, while showing someone how Wanikani works, the kanji 乱交 popped up. No way around it, not a work safe word! It was fine that time, but what if it had been a coworker, or my boss?
Usually I end up just pushing through it as fast as possible, hoping no one sees, but it’d be nice if there was a “Work-safe Mode” that would limit any potentially NSFW vocab while toggled. That way, the words still get studied, but when practicing in a public place you can relax.
(on a positive note, because I’m so desperate to burn it I will never forget the meaning/reading of 乱交 lol)
It’s not really a solution, but have you considered using synonyms to allow for euphemisms in place of potentially inappropriate language?
crowd relations
people getting up in da guts
collective gutsticking
group loving
struggle snuggling
I would love to go on for humor’s sake, but really, there are better and funnier lists out there. I think I might start using “shaboinking” myself, but “spelunking the slime cave” sounds like something straight out of a japanese fantasy novel… hehehe… I am so mature
LOL. I had to look that one up… wow. I doubt that the core WK team would add this feature but it would be a really good idea for a userscript. I like @ccookf’s solution as well
I had 乱交 show up at work once. I just typed in “orgt” since I knew WaniKani would accept that answer. Even if nobody is looking, everything you type is probably still tracked by your company, so better safe than sorry.
Ahaha, those are some great suggestions! I think “struggle snuggling” is definitely my new go-to…
Sadly, though, the issue for me isn’t that the English is inappropriate, but the Japanese word itself (I live in Japan/have a Japanese work environment). Honestly I could type all the indecent words in English that I want, and probably no one would ever notice, but I can’t do anything about the kanji!
I figure that if they know you’re trying to become fluent in a language, your boss/coworker would understand that it’s necessary to learn terms such as that.
This isn’t exactly related, but I wonder if a script like this one would help you:
Basically, it takes away most of the colours and everything from your reviews, and you can make the browser window a very small box… Making your reviews less conspicuous. Hopefully they’re less likely to see those kanji, then. (No longer will 乱交 be the center of attention.) Hope that helps! ^^
I do strongly believe that to be taken seriously be educators it needs to be SFW. That way there may be more interest in the product from the schools segment. I know that my friends who teach the language will never suggest this to students.
I do like the vocab that’s in here, but there should be an option to lock that stuff for teachers to be able to recommend the product. There’s a lot of room for business growth (which is something I focus on for a living)…
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