Courses *suddenly* requiring either hyphens or even strict typing

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

yeah, thanks…

for the Latin courses, for ex, this is a disaster.

(and Memrise decided synonyms don’t matter and should not be learned (there is only twitter language on planet earth…) and typing … typing? who needs typing, google leads us to the world of vocal commands, good beware of writing, writing is only for obsolete… humans…)

[Xephers]

To get the • symbol. You have to make sure you have the Japanese keyboard turned on and press the shift and ? at the same time.

[GabrieleCramer-Knebe (Gabriele Cramer Knebel2d)]

Ah, Thank you very much. Yes, I have the Japanese Keyboard but was not aware of the keystrokes to make that • symbol.

[misxifRM]

Hello Hung-Phan:

1. I am learning new words and reviewing words in the German course “5000 Words (top 87%) sorted by frequency”, as an English speaker. http://www.memrise.com/course/47049/5000-words-top-87-sorted-by-frequency/
2. This applies to all the tests (except the ones which ask for selection of one option among a choice of complete answers).
3. An example would be: Translate from English to German “the house”. Answer required: das Haus, -"er
4. The behaviour that I want is that typing just “das Haus” would be an acceptable answer. The creators of this course have stated that the “strict typing” is turned off, and it should not be necessary to add the plural endings.

This was working a few days ago without having to type the plural endings, but now (in the browser version) the answer is rejected if plural endings are not typed. In the mobile (Android) version, plurals are not required.

[misxifRM]

I apologise if I am in the wrong thread on this forum, since the plural requirement is a bit different from the issue about commas or word order, but it seems to me that it is another expression of “strict typing” rules being enforced when they should not be.

[hung-phan]

Hi @misxifRM, Has there been a change in the way memrise treats commas? this thread may be long but if you scroll to the last one (using the scroll bar). There is a question about the same course. Additionally, you can see the the table in post Has there been a change in the way memrise treats commas?. That is what we support now.

[misxifRM]

Thank you @hung-phan for pointing me to the other thread.

It seems that this thread and the other one are discussing the same issue. As @BenWhately has explained, Memrise is re-working the platform to make it suit more recent joiners who prefer to use the mobile platform, and in the process is changing the way in which community-created courses are being interpreted.

[hung-phan]

I have a better idea for tracing down all the problem. Please follow the instruction on the post and tag me in if you want me to investigate your problem.

Has there been a change in the way memrise treats commas?

If you want me to trace all the problem faster, please put the email in this post by replying to me. I will add you to the contributor. In there, please create your courses with your name, and fill in the word in the first and second column only. The first column should be using for testing. The second column you should type in all your expectation answers for the word in first column. I will help you gather all the problems relating the tapping test and typing test. For example, First colum…

[ReParker]

I still have the problems with the “,”. In my course I usually offer both answers in English British and American as correct. Before you just had to type one not both of them.

What am I suppose to do? Introduce manually both of them as altervatives valid answers?
That would an insane amount of work.

I’ll give you an example. In my Spanish English course you have the word ENDAVOUR (brit) and ENDAVOR (Am) spelling as in “Esfuerzo = endavour, endavor”. Am I supposed to type the whole thing (“endavour, endavor”) to get the correct answer?

HELP PLEASE!

[Foorgol]

According to the new guidelines (as far as I understood them) a semicolon or / should be used to separate alternatives. Commas won’t work anymore.

[misxifRM]

Hello ReParker, I don’t want to be nit-picking, but FYI, you have missed out a letter ‘e’ in your two versions of the word endeavour/endeavor.

[demaxski]

@ReParker
I hope this explains:

Memrise NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS and UPDATES

In course creation the comma no longer works as a separator, instead:
… “;” and “/” are the separators that should work at the moment and will permanently.

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

I have replaced commas with semicolons in this course http://www.memrise.com/course/758110/1-the-city/ ; now it is asking for strict typing??? Also, I have problems recording audio in this one…

[Foorgol]

Hi Hydroptere,
I just tested your course (with the first 5 words) and found no problems with the behaviour. Either salubre and saludable were accepted and deschabolización did not force me to use the diacritical mark. As I am in the middle of replacing commas with semicola myself I am still worried all this work might be useless … where did you encounter the problem you mentioned?
Foorgol

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

Tag,

later in the course, two or three times - might be also related with the problems Memrise has distinguishing between “l” (wie in “leider”) and “I” (wie “Inhalt”) …

verdammt!!! here is not functioning: “consultora de gestión; asesoría gerencial” in my economics course, probably memrise wants consultora de gestión ; asesoría gerencial !!! at least they should say so!

if useless or nor, hm: it did work in the last days for languages without accents, although probably the best solution is to add zillion invisible alternatives (what for a silly work!)

(was Memrise heute sagt und was morgen tut, das sind zwei ganz unterschiedliche Paar Schuhe)

[hung-phan]

Can you try this @Hydroptere?

Learn Hung Phan and much more on Memrise

This is my attempt with your words

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

tapping should be disabled in that course, thanks for pointing that to me know that I have to change that too/ the course is typing/audio review period

• meanwhile i’ve added spaces in front of the semicolons

[MemriseMatty]

Please see our recent update for more information on how punctuation behaves on Memrise.

A Guide to Typing Tests, Tapping Tests and Memrise Punctuation

Hi All - There’s recently been some changes to Memrise Punctuation and how it behaves. We’ve compiled a summary explaining the changes, and how punctuation currently works on Memrise How to Use This Guide Each point will provide a description on how the punctuation works, and then an example of what you need to do to gain a correct answer (when answering a test.) This can be used by someone who wants more information on how to gain said correct answer, or by a course creator …

[neoncube]

I posted this in the other topic, but I thought it might be good to post it here, too:

I’ve written a userscript that replaces commas with semicolons. Please see this topic for more information

[Mangup (Glupan)]

When combining special characters like ć or č together with diacritic marks, memrise still accepts only either strict typing (including special charakters and diacritic marks) or typing free of special characters and diacritic marks.