Honestly it’s a miracle that Wanikani accepts most of my typos hahaha. I completely forget how to speak English (my native language) most of the time I swear. Trying to write “reminisce” correctly is a struggle.
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The struggle is real…
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No screenshot, but 在留する accepted ‘to detain’ as a ‘slightly off’ answer - I’m almost certain that’s an error with being close to a synonym? I was thrown off by the 留 kanji, and I’m fairly sure it’s a completely wrong answer which should probably be on the blocklist.
@Mods sorry for tag, but if you guys scan the thread for screenshots my post might slip by 
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You’re right, it’s being accepted because of “to remain” so thanks for the ping! I’ll get this changed right away.
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We didn’t want learners to get 免除 (permission to not follow a rule) and 例外 (a situation that doesn’t follow a rule) mixed up, but it’s true that we were perhaps a bit strict with the block list on this one, so we’ve moved “exception,” “except,” and “excepting” to the warning list based on your suggestion.
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@mods I smell a block list candidate
Totally absent-mindedly mixed these up and was shocked to see it’s accepted! @Mods
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Great nose! I added “absence” to the block list here.
Oops, wrong season! I added “summer solstice” to the block list for 冬至. Thanks!
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Shocked to see this wasn’t accepted 
I got too comfy with how lenient WaniKani can be 
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@Mods I completely blanked this one and put a ‘random word’ in and… I think it was just close enough to ‘police’ for the typo filter to accept it. XD
Probably good one to block.
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Thanks, I’ll add that!
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made me giggle www
It’s definitely not consistent - I misspelled the word blue as bue and it rejected it. And yet it accepts other, more incorrect spelling mistakes.
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prob cause it reads bue as hue instead of blue ya know?
WaniKani marks correctness with a modified Levenshtein algorithm - longer words can allow up to three errors (i.e. an extra letter, a letter missing, one letter substituted for another, or two letters transposed, each count as one error), but in shorter words, even a single error represents a significant fraction of the total answer, so short words can be pretty unforgiving.
The distance between “simultaneous” and “simutalenosu” is… uh… four, I think. L missing from where it should be, L inserted two letters later, N and E swapped, U and S swapped.
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so, what i said basically?? or noo? ww
Nah, it’s not thinking “this sort of looks like ‘hue’, and ‘hue’ is wrong” but rather " ‘blue’ and ‘bue’ are simply too dissimilar to be close enough".
maybe im too tired, its 2:35 am anywayyy…
i sorry lol
