The [bird] told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
The [bird] told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Not a plea for help since I imagine using the word bank allows the text to be accepted. And no, I'm not trying to get it to fail by using 二 instead of ニ. I'm pretty sure the exercise is bugged.
Just a guess, but was there an extra space after the comma? Unlike in English, the full-width comma takes up an entire square worth of space like all other characters and shouldn't have an extra space after it. I don't know if Duolingo even considers spaces when marking answers though so that may not be it.
It doesn't look like there was an extra space. Spaces with Japanese keyboards are 2-3 times as long. Considering there's already a gap after a comma, the gap would look huge with an extra space.
Here's the sentence with and without a space after the comma.
はい、 コンビニです。
はい、コンビニです。
OP's sentence looks more like the second one.
Although I can't prove it with just the image, my input method editor (fcitx5) seems to only use full-width characters, even for commas, when I use it to input Japanese text. I had completed several dozen other exercises, many containing commas, which seemed to work fine with Duolingo. Even copy-pasting their “Correct solution” did not work and I believe it contained a full-width comma.
If you're familar with Python, can you try this script? (please replace the string
aandbwith your input and the answer)$ python >>> import unicodedata >>> a = 'はい、 コンビニです。' >>> print('\n'.join(f'{hex(ord(c))}, {unicodedata.name(c)}' for c in a)) 0x306f, HIRAGANA LETTER HA 0x3044, HIRAGANA LETTER I 0x3001, IDEOGRAPHIC COMMA 0x3000, IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE 0x30b3, KATAKANA LETTER KO 0x30f3, KATAKANA LETTER N 0x30d3, KATAKANA LETTER BI 0x30cb, KATAKANA LETTER NI 0x3067, HIRAGANA LETTER DE 0x3059, HIRAGANA LETTER SU 0x3002, IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP >>> b = 'はい、コンビニです。' >>> print('\n'.join(f'{hex(ord(c))}, {unicodedata.name(c)}' for c in b)) 0x306f, HIRAGANA LETTER HA 0x3044, HIRAGANA LETTER I 0x3001, IDEOGRAPHIC COMMA 0x30b3, KATAKANA LETTER KO 0x30f3, KATAKANA LETTER N 0x30d3, KATAKANA LETTER BI 0x30cb, KATAKANA LETTER NI 0x3067, HIRAGANA LETTER DE 0x3059, HIRAGANA LETTER SU 0x3002, IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP
What application is this?
This looks like DuoLingo.
For my own reference, 二 is U+4E8C, "CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E8C" while ニ is "KATAKANA LETTER NI" (U+30CB).
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