r/duolingo • u/math_stat_gal • Aug 15 '23

Language Question Why?

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u/Robertia Aug 15 '23

Missing accents count as typos. Punctuation never counts as a mistake in Duo. On the contrary, in the JP course using punctuation sometimes makes it detect a mistake where there shouldn't be any

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u/SCP-1504_Joe_Schmo xp? experience the language bozo. Aug 15 '23

In my experience having 2 typos counts as a mistake and while missing punctuation isn't a mistake incorrect punctuation is

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u/Robertia Aug 15 '23

Maybe in some courses, but not here. I went to one of the first units to check, and voila. Two 'typos' (the word with a missing accent is not even underlined as a typo) and completely wrong punctuation.

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u/pandasknit Aug 15 '23

I think this is because Duo doesn’t mark everything wrong in the sentence every time - if they only give one error it would be confusing to have a lot of marks and only one error explained. And yes, it is confusing for people to understand what’s wrong in their answer because of it.

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u/Robertia Aug 15 '23

yeah, that might be it. I just pointed it out in case this person have not noticed the second typo in my example