boolean method

The first line using () in java is valid. You can test it with

boolean test = (false|| true);

So we need more code to see, if you can paste your code. Once pasted put ```Java next to each other (the key next to one) and close the code with ```.

```Java
CODE
PASTED
HERE
```

If I can help then.

EDIT: Also I went to your lesson and tried it out in workspaces with no issue. Lets see your code for sure. Sometimes when debugging something it good to print something out to test where it went wrong.

Example:

 String noun = console.readLine("Enter a noun:  ");

      boolean isInvalidWord = (noun.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") || noun.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"));
      //Test to see what boolean isInvalidWord currently is before a conditional statement
      console.printf("isInvalidWord is set to: " + isInvalidWord+"\n");

      //Rest of the code
      if (noun.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") ||
          noun.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk")) {
        console.printf("That language is not allowed.  Exiting. \n\n");
        System.exit(0);

Here we will see it printed out before we get to any loops or checks, so you know 100% if its being evaluated correctly. It may turn out what you suspect the problem is, is very quite different and located somewhere else.