I’ve been doing my reviews (red letter day) and came across “with difficulty”…
The mnemonic caught me off guard, Kudos to you gcr.
Um… It’s not working with kanji for me. It shows up alright with the vocabulary, but kanji don’t even have the box with: “Nobody has posted a mnemonic for this item’s meaning yet. If you like, you can be the first to submit one!”
For me, this script loads sometimes and sometimes doesn’t. And when it does, there is rarely a community mnemonic posted for things I need, so I make my own. We need more people using this!
I really enjoy adjusting the existing mnemonics or coming up with my own (better?) ones, so I often type them into the community notes. My wish would be for lots of people to install and use this so we can have a giant mnemonics selection like on Memrise.
So sad, I’m the last one who posted here 3 months ago. Well, I wanted to leave this tidbit here. I just created a mnemonic for the vocab 事情 = Circumstances. But found as I was trying to submit it that it didn’t pass the vulgarity filter. After much confused re-reading I finally figured out why, and my final mnemonic turned out like this:
“Break it down to the radicals - You are taking ACTION to paint a FISHSTICK BLUE. Why?? Under what CIRCMSTANCES would you need to do that? Maybe under the same weird CIRCMSTANCES that forced me to take the letter “U” out of the word CIRCMSTANCES to pass the vulgarity filter. You can think about how weird that is to help you remember as well.”
A vulgarity filter for mnemonics is stupid. Some of the best ones are vulgar.
Yup, they sure are.
And anyone who wanted to write a certain word could do it anyway by replacing the U with any of these wonderful letters and symbols…
I just thought it would be funnier to exlain the problem directly.
- ∪ : Union
- ∩ : Intersection, an upside-down upper case “U”
Haha, this time it wouldn’t let me create a mnemonic for DOCUMENT. Had to switch out the U >_<
Why was this mnemonic rejected as “not family-friendly”? The words and imagery are 100% G-rated…
You’ve heard the expression “wall of text”? A “letter curtain” is a similar idea…picture one of those black-barred subtitles blocking some important detail on the movie screen.
isnorden said... Why was this mnemonic rejected as "not family-friendly"? The words and imagery are 100% G-rated...Maybe the "cur" in curtain? Or the "tit" in subtitles? It's kind of ridiculous, but that's the only things I could find that could be considered even remotely "vulgar". And this is on a site where several radicals are boob-related...
You've heard the expression "wall of text"? A "letter curtain" is a similar idea...picture one of those black-barred subtitles blocking some important detail on the movie screen.
I've never gotten this script to work propely myself :-)
vargsvans said... Maybe the "cur" in curtain? Or the "tit" in subtitles? It's kind of ridiculous, but that's the only things I could find that could be considered even remotely "vulgar". And this is on a site where several radicals are boob-related...Ironically, the kanji being translated mean "subtitle" (level 34).
I've never gotten this script to work properly myself :-)
Yes, the author is some sort of polly prissypants who lives in complete denial of the fact that some of WK’s own mnemonics invoke four-letter words for excrement and sexual congress.
I thought this script was dead due to the “spreadsheet” powering it getting too large and no longer loading for users…
It’s a shame Viet et al haven’t implemented this in WK, where it belongs. It’s especially annoying when you come across mnemonics where they clearly gave up (for instance, 景色 and 担う)
Too bad it’s dead already, maybe I’ll try to create my own version, but I never scripted in JS…
PsychoBoy said... Too bad it's dead already, maybe I'll try to create my own version, but I never scripted in JS..I think the problem is that any script like this will only be used by a small percentage of the userbase, and considering the amount of items that would require community mnemonics for it to be useful it is very unlikely it will ever fill up. Most people will just install it, see that hardly anything has a mnemonic, and uninstall it.
Best thing would be if the site itself had community mnemonic support, then it might actually see some use.
I use this and add to it. I also vote on those I like and don’t like.
Granted I haven’t used it in a month due to pc issues, but will see if still works for me today. ~frankiebluej
Soooo is this completely dead? I can’t seem to get the script to work at all. On any page. No error messages or anything. Does it work for anybody else? Is there at least some way I could access the spreadsheet?
Edit: I found the spreadsheet. Still can’t get the script to work at all.
rubiksmoose said... Soooo is this completely dead? I can't seem to get the script to work at all. On any page. No error messages or anything. Does it work for anybody else? Is there at least some way I could access the spreadsheet?Seems to work, but my Firefox is freezing often because of this script.
Edit: I found the spreadsheet. Still can't get the script to work at all.
I use it with no issues. I think it’s intended that the mnemonics be ‘clean’, so I haven’t added many. Also, the ones I have my own good mnemonics for are the ones I breeze through, so I guess I forget too.
This script is vulnerable to XSS attack!
This script is NOT SAFE TO USE until this is fixed!
Good explaining video: Cookie Stealing - Computerphile - YouTube
issue here is the same
Unfortunately it’s not working in the *.wanikani.com/kanji part 
This isn’t working for me whatsoever, I’ve already deleted my WK cookies and that didn’t fix it either.