[Screen Shot 2022-03-26 at 6.40.37 AM] For example, the vocab word アメリカ人 accepts “amerikajin” as a typo. The word 少し accepts “sukoshi”. The first one’s just fine, I can see this being a typo, but the second one - look at the screenshot above, its meaning is “A Few”, nothing like “sukoshi”, and t…

[image] Belthazar: The English colloquial word “skosh” originally came from the Japanese 少し, so perhaps it’s there as an invisible synonym. Yes there is. Item Inspector reveals it in the allow list. [sukoshi]

The English colloquial word “skosh” originally came from the Japanese 少し, so perhaps it’s there as an invisible synonym.

Thank you, but what are invisible synonyms? And why are they invisible, is there a limit or did トフグ just want some to be invisible?

They are words added to an inclusion or exclusion list for meanings, they aren’t the real meanings so they can’t be shown as one, but they will get accepted if you put them. For example 渡す is “to hand over” but it accepts “to hand out” even though this meaning isn’t shown as an “official” meaning. …

[image] MrSuntastic: As for the exclusions list I think it’s for situations where your answer might be close to it when speaking in English but the Japanese word really wouldn’t translate to that in the context of the kanji. For example, “north” is near enough to “south” that the “close enoug…

Skosh was added as an acceptable reading a few weeks ago actually, like last week or so. With amerikajin, if a word is long enough, you can tack quite a few extraneous characters onto the end without tripping the typo detection.

And that would also mean that 北 would be allowed to be “south” if it weren’t for the block list?

The checker is probably actually checking if your answer comes within a few English letters of a known correct translation, rather than checking against meaning. I suspect this for a few reasons: “south” is only a couple letters off from “north” Before a recent update for 点く, I had accidental…

@proleau How do you view an Item Inspector? Is it for devs/mods only?

It is a userscript. See here. [image] [Userscript] Wanikani Item Inspector API And Third-Party Apps warning This is a third-party script/app and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued inde…

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Why do some meanings accept their respective readings?

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prouleau March 26, 2022, 5:27pm 11

It is a userscript. See here.

To see the allow list you need to configure a table element to see it.

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Why do some meanings accept their respective readings?

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