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ravas ravas 2015-julio-30 2015-julio-30 23:06:16 UTC link Konstanta ligilo

When I search for: What are you doing for dinner?
using: From Any - To Any
I get: No results found

yet here it is:
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2849900

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tommy_san tommy_san 2015-julio-30 2015-julio-30 23:36:28 UTC link Konstanta ligilo

That's because "dinner?" means "dinner" followed by one letter (such as "dinners").
https://tatoeba.org/sentences/s...rom=und&to=und

You can get the sentence if you remove the question mark.
https://tatoeba.org/sentences/s...rom=und&to=und

See this page to learn more about advanced search.
http://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/arti...ow/text-search

I agree this is somewhat counterintuitive.

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ravas ravas 2015-julio-30 2015-julio-30 23:42:40 UTC link Konstanta ligilo

Ahh... Thank you!

ravas ravas 2015-julio-31 2015-julio-31 21:00:56 UTC link Konstanta ligilo

I suggest creating an option to toggle between two search modes:

mode 1:
- considers punctuation as part of the sentence
- is case insensitive
- no advanced features

mode 2:
- the current advanced search syntax

Mode 1 would be the default. This would mitigate confusion for new users.