Uli der Fehlerteufel
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Uli der Fehlerteufel is German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 for "Uli the error devil". Uli is short for "Ulimantulus Irrichmich". The last name has to be pronounced, "Irr ich mich", which means something like, "Am I wrong?"

Uli was a rotund little red devil with blue-black hair depicted in German primary school books in the 1970's. Exercises were based on him, where for example Uli had removed the capital letters or punctuation marks from a text and it was up to the student to replace them.

Uli was invented by Ellis Kaut, the "mother" of Pumuckl
Pumuckl
Pumuckl is a Kobold from a German radio play series for children. He is a descendant of the Klabautermänner.He is invisible to people around him except for the master carpenter Eder with whom Pumuckl lives....

; the artwork was done by Ellis Kaut and Franz Josef Ott.

Aside from what he helped students learn, Uli himself remains a fond memory. Comparable English concepts are Typo Fairy or Typo Demon, but while they are generic and open to interpretation, there is only one Uli.
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