Why in 2.10 does "tornado" not contain an article?

Question

This is something I noticed during my recall section in 2.10. Like most words in the recalls, I input "el tornado" and it said it was wrong, "tornado = tornado", is there a reason? Or just a mistake?

Answer 1

All fixed! Thanks for the heads up!

Answer 2

It was not a mistake by the Recall program because the flashcard says tornado not el tornado so it was correct in not giving you credit for your answer.

Now, was the creator of the cards correct in not saying el tornado? If you read the suggestions for making flashcards in the Reference section, one of the recommendations is that you make all your cards as close to each other in format as possible, such as using or not using definite or indefinite articles, but not using them for some and not for others. Since the other cards like la inundacion have the definite article so should the one with tornado. The purpose is to learn the nouns, not to memorize which one had a definite article and which one did not.

You might wish to include a link to this discussion in Paralee's thread on Lesson errors.

Well I understand why it counted it wrong, and that's what brought my attention to it. - Preguntón, Sep 23, 2009

Answer 3

Extraño, well observed and you are rigth, consistency is what Quentin taught me, this is a very typical mistake when making flashcard sets. In Paralee's case it normally does not happen, so here it was un descuido

I am passing the thread on to her error thread. Thanks for the input