U Answers Quiz #2

You kinda make a sound like “usurp” when you eat noodles. Maybe that’s what he’s referring to.

i seriously hope that's not the case

Slurping when you eat noodles is common and totally normitivised in many places, including Japan.

this isn't a spelling competition, and not all words are natively written in latin script and specifically english letters that don't have accents. as such, there are several ways to spell things like uyghur

I don't think anyone disagrees that different correct variations of a word should be accepted, especially in the case of alternate transliterations (Qaddafi, Ghaddaffi, yogurt, yoghurt, etc.) I suspect the complainer is talking about accepting misspellings, like uzzy for Uzi and the like.

That said, I'd love for the "acceptable misspellings" to be assigned to answers in such a way that you can select "strict spelling" or "loose spelling" as an option (and note here: I don't mean alternate correct spellings, I mean misspellings). I use Jetpunk as a tool for learning trivia and I would like to make myself use acceptable spellings, which is why it's so maddening when I can never actually type "pittsburgh" correctly-spelled because some people can't spell it. However, doing so would require different sets regexes for answers in many contexts and a different structure for quizzes, so I doubt it is practical.

The anthem as a whole is still in use but the first stanza, containing "Deutschland über alles" = "Germany above all", is controversial to say the least. When written in 1841, it was a call for Germans to put aside their differences and form one nation. But when the Nazis took over, it was increasingly understood along the lines that Germany is better than other countries. So in fact these words have acquired a strong Nazi connection. That is why the first (as well as the second) stanzas are never officially sung. The current German president once said in a speech that Germans shall never say "Deutschland über alles" again. A few years ago, the Chilean president had to apologize after writing the line in a government guestbook in Berlin.

Not necessarily a call on my part to remove the question though. Or if I'd remove the question then for the reason that an Ü is not a U, as the dots are not mere stylizations but change the pronounciation and the meaning.