Had the same today that sentences without the words in parenthesis were wrong, but i guess this time it just means that they/he is working on it.
So at the moment just the opposite answers are correct compared to before.
So now the word in parenthesis HAS TO be written to get it as correct.
EDIT: But now again only the version without the whole parenthesis is correct, so I guess we just have to wait a bit but htere seems to be progress in this field.
I’ve got some items with words in brackets extra in a course and they don’t have to be written for the answer to be marked correct. Just tested this on reading your problem.
Yes, but 5 minutes ago they had to be written, so someone is at the moment working on this problem.
Hopefully that’ll be the case when the word comes up for review. They were quick fixing a Hyphen issue yesterday, but it seriously would be nice to have a day when the site just works.
Sorry @kotodama,
I was working on other issues. I will spend time on this. In the meantime, please wait.
I have a better idea for tracing down all the problem. Please follow the instruction on the post and tag me.
Hi Martin, I’m sorry to hear that my course doesn’t work properly. I have to change commas in http://www.memrise.com/course/356204/serbokroatisch-basiswortschatz/ first and have very little time. In December you can count on some improvements on “Redewendungen”. I hope that brackets will work again as intended.
Well now I’ve got something very strange to do with brackets - in 1 COURSE WITHIN 1 LEVEL it is treating 2 words written in the same format differently - both are verbs confondere (p.p.confuso) and congiungere (p.p. congiunto). Memrise accepts the first if you just write confondere and not the second you have to write congiungere (p.p. congiunto). Astonishing. I would like anyone at memrise to explain that one!! @BenWhately @hung-phan
course page http://www.memrise.com/course/200/italian-beginner-to-intermediate-vocabulary/21/
So it looks @kotodama that there are still wrong things. Maybe we will have to alter all the words with brackets as well as commas.
The problem seems to have affected MemRise’s Italian courses:
I just had a mixed situation with the words from the old German A2. I had two items with brackets pop up while reviewing - and the first one accepted only the whole answer, with or without the brackets, but not only the word outside them. The second one, however, didn’t accept the whole answer without brackets, i.e. it was still the old way.
Consequently, I got both wrong. 
Now we can also see where the whole trouble is coming from in the last months.
It is a bit sad to see that the guys who created the official courses weren’t too clever and seemed to adjust the whole system to their laziness, because they were too lazy to adjust their vocabulary input with the correct separation symbols. They rather had the whole system/script changed/ruined, before they just simply adjust their words and let others do their work by now fixing all the problems they caused. “il loro (la loro; i loro; le loro)” writing semicolons in extreme long brackets instead of just using commas like everyone else was using for so many years is just ridiculous.
Of course there will be so many problems if the new script has to fit to these stupid way of entering vocabulary.
Sigh… new day, new daily issue volume 2 (because, seriously why not). Thanks hung-phan it seems like you’re the only one out of the Memrise team actually trying.
Course is returning the expected answer as wrong without the ‘Nap (Blah Blah’. Surprisingly, doesn’t need the closing Parenthesis though. Hyphen works as expected though lol.
@sandslane Things are still definitely wonky as heck. I’ve had issues with certain words/terms or whatever in certain courses, but they’d be one offs that you’d deal with and be done, but recently it’s been every courses to different degrees of infection, in a manner of speaking.
At the moment it seems brackets which contain only one word have to be omitted to be correct, while brackets with more than one word have to be written out to be correct.
I even have a word/sentence that containts 2 brackets and the first one has to be left out (single word) and the second has to be written out (2 words) to be correct.
@Zyme There are a lot of odd things with brackets and no 2 courses seem to respond the same way. At least in the commas thread it says they are now working on the problem!
I hope this info help. @sandslane, @Zyme
In the meantime, please help me by contributing on this.
already have. But added a few more examples for the basic use of the brackets.
It’s more than “a bit sad”, it’s appalling. Memrise made courses that don’t work with their own system that the rest of us had been accommodating for years, then they went “whoops, we did it wrong” and instead of fixing what they did, they changed the system to break everyone else’s courses so it would work with how they set theirs up.
This is part of what I mean when I say, repeatedly, that memrise treats us with disrespect and utter contempt. Then someone like @BenWhately or @Joshau pops up occasionally to give a hollow apology and say a few nice things, and half the users here grasp at those straws and say let’s give memrise another chance, they don’t really hate us, look they said they’ll do better.
For years, this pattern has been going on. They do hate us. They’ve shown no sign of ever following through on apologies or trying to do better - they just get even worse.
Hi @cos,
I don’t have the rights to judge, but if you need help on your course, just tag me in so I know the problem you have.
Hi @hung-phan, this is my problem:
Answer: 差异 (chā yì)
I should be able to only write 差异, but now it only accepts 差异 (chā yì). Irritating as that uses 3 different language inputs.
I don’t know if only typing 差异 is marked yellow or red.
This is how it works at the moment.