Red Synonym = Blocked Synonym

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Good morning,

And as with every good morning, you start with feeding the wanikanitachi-chan.
During reviews, I encountered this word:
残る (のこる) To Remain Behind, To Stay Behind.
So I added “To Leave Behind” as user synonym because I knew I will mess it up at least once and write down “to leave behind”.

But then something new happened and my synonym was flagged in red color with the warning:
“Red Synonym = Blocked Synonym
The Crabigator has detected a blocked synonym and has marked it red. It will not be accepted during reviews. No other bad things will happen, so you can keep it there if you want.”

“It will not be accepted during reviews.” …:neutral_face:

I understand the concept of the word and that there is a difference between “to stay behind” and “to leave (something/someone) behind”.
So I deleted the synonym and entered “to be left behind” and it worked, no red warning.

Not sure how I feel about this (new?) update. So far I’m leaning toward the negative because I feel like it’s trying to teach me English instead of Japanese.

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It’s trying to teach you the difference between intransitive and transitive.

It would be wrong to remember as to leave behind. That would be 残す not 残る

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Those are two entirely different meanings in English so of course it’s not going to accept the synonym since it’s absolutely wrong.

To remain behind is you yourself as a person remains behind while your group goes ahead.

To leave behind means that you are part of the group going ahead and you’re leaving something else behind.

Those don’t mean anything close to the same thing.

To be left behind is also still wrong. You are choosing to remain behind, you are not being left behind. Again, completely different words.

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