yea it felt like either alberquerque or albequerque, so I figured it must some c/q mix and less u's maybe even ending in double e. But never would have guessed the letter after b would be something other than e.
I'm surprised 'sopolo' isn't a type-in for 'Sapporo'! I was trying to make Abidjan go for 'ibadan' - doesn't seem worse than some existing options and the actual answer isn't far off the misspelling.
For Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, and Tajikistan, you can first write 'Kaz', "Kyrg' and 'Taj' respectively and write anything you want and then finish it in 'Stan'. eg. 'Taj said hello to Stan'
For Federated States of Micronesia, you can just include 'Micronesia' in your response and it will work. eg. 'During the holidays, I visited Micronesia'
Although the Düsseldorf one is still spelled wrong, the "ue" makes sense, as that is an acceptable alternative spelling of "ü," and probably more accurate than "Dusseldorf," which would be pronounced differently without the umlaut.
Yup, I always thought that adding an e after a vowel that should have an umlaut was the standard way to do it if your keyboard doesn't have umlauts, though a German friend said he just ignores the umlaut and doesn't bother with the e either
Looking at the badly spelled one made me forget how to spell them correctly. I had to figure out what city it was and then look away in order to type the correct name.
I think it just accepts starting with Edin, and ending in gh.. like Kyrgyzstan you it just needs Kyr and Stan, you could wright Kyrghelloisitmeyourelookingforstan, and get it. Edinbobsleigh did make me laugh though!
here's a case where actually being able to speak the language was a hindrance to guessing the answer -> even after the answer reveal, the disparity between "tenjen" and the _real_ pronunciation was so great, I never would have been able to guess
Spelled Denpasar with as Denpansar... Somehow I missed both of the first two haha. I was convinced 'tenjen' was 'tianviane' until I realized it's 'vientiane'.
Type ins like this are ridiculous for us of those who want to actually learn to spell the countries or cities, correctly, maybe not this bad, but for a while I thought Israel was spelt “Isreal” because I used JetPunk, and that is an acceptable type in. There should be an option to turn type ins off.
Excellent idea! (to have the option to turn type-ins off) especially for countries and capitals. I would use it for those. With more broad and random quizzes like general knowledge I would not use it. I would not care if someone was johannsen johansen johanssen or johansson etc. But for certain quizzes you would actually want to learn the spelling. Basically the specialised ones, where all the answers are from one category (and a general theme, like green things, does not count) like (apart from the things mentioned previously) the names of flowers.
I doubt most people want to be typing Democratic Republic of the Congo, Federated States of Micronesia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Bosnia and Herzegovina etc. every time though.
The fact that I speak Greek, understood finally thosolinca or whatever the misspelled one is, tried Thessalonica which I thought is the typical English spelling and gave up without trying the transliterated version is simply hilarious.
'Albuerquerque'?
Did not know how to spell that for 5 months or so.
But I had NO idea about siny until I said it with an Australian accent. So funny.
Fun quiz
For Federated States of Micronesia, you can just include 'Micronesia' in your response and it will work. eg. 'During the holidays, I visited Micronesia'
a year laterIt freaking worked!!!!!
When I realize this could be the answer I was like "it's not possible..." HAHAHAHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2SGCktFEGc
Still giggling at Lasangas. Great quiz.
maybe one day..
I kept trying "Sidney" and wondering why it wasn't working, then wondering what other city it could be - Chennai? Sinai? Is that even a city?