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#1124

@TofuguKyle Belthazar has what I meant here. I’m not a big fan of these “x is y” or “a has b” type sentences being used as a context sentence since they don’t actually hint at the meaning of the word. I like weird/bizarre sentences, but this one doesn’t feel very helpful. I think something like “The Prime Minister left office after a scandal involving hitting the Tokyo mayor’s husband with a fish,” would be better. It’s still weird, but you have the implications of it being part of a government job title.

@Belthazar I really appreciate the assist. Would you mind using they/them for me though please?

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#1125

Hi @DIO-Berry. Gotcha! I think that makes sense. I’ll pass this along to the team to see what can be done.

Is your avi from JoJo? I just started watching :slightly_smiling_face:

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#1126

Thank you!

Yes, my avatars are all (catboy) Dio from JoJo! :smiley:

Here’s a young Dio

1600×1549 1.36 MB

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#1127

Haha! So cool. I’m completely enamored with the show. So charming.

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#1128

It’s a lot of fun. I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying it! Which episode are you on?

#1129

Not sure where to put this (it doesn’t feel important enough for its own thread) but the meaning notes of 鑑みる has a malformed tag:

with the particle </ja>に</ja>. It's a pretty formal

It blew up my tool :crying_cat_face:

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#1130

Hi there! Can you tell me a bit more about what that means so I can loop in our engineering team?

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#1131

I have a feeling it’s from an API response rather than the website, but a correct markup tag would look more like:

with the particle <ja>に</ja>. It's a pretty formal

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#1132

Oh, that makes sense! I’ll let the right people know :slightly_smiling_face:

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#1133

Yup, confirmed… it’s in the API data, /subjects under (item).data.meaning_mnemonic for 鑑みる

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#1134

This should be fixed!

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#1135

We just had a typo on the markup tag. Thanks for pointing it out!

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#1136

Thanks guys! I guess its easier to bug you than fix my own code :sweat_smile:

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#1137

@Mods

Can you add “to hinder” to the block list for 隠す?

I’ve mislearned it for a while now :clown_face:

#1138

I’ll pass along your request, thank you. Happy New Year, @DIO-Berry :love_letter:

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#1139

Thank you! Happy new year and anime watching to you too, Kyle!

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#1140

The reading mnemonic for 極 says:
“Unfortunately we still haven’t come up with a good reading for きょく”, I assume because this was the case earlier and now wasn’t updated.

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#1141

Think the point is Goku’s half-brother Kyoku is not a very good mnemonic. (Though that didn’t stop them from inventing Jourm…)

But yeah, it should probably be “reading mnemonic”.

#1142

I don’t know if it’s for this reason here too, but 出 can also have a secondary meaning of “attend”, e.g. 会議に出る, “to attend a meeting”, or of course 出席, “attendance”. So to me this meaning makes sense here.

#1143

Ahh, that makes sense, - and I can see the link in a “leave for work,” “leave for a meeting” etc way, but it is probably better for me to think of it as a secondary meaning - that I just need to remember.