Again with the media ragging on Jeopardy!... SMH.
Yahoo! News is scurrilous, gutter journalism, IMHO. Best taken with a grain (or a shakerful) of salt.
Yahoo! News is scurrilous, gutter journalism, IMHO. Best taken with a grain (or a shakerful) of salt.
I take all news with a shakerful. :)Do you take ABC News with that same shakerful?
Nice to see that Jeopardy\'s obstinate stance on pronunciation is getting them some negative attention.
At a QuizBusters taping Tuesday, we had a game go down to a quick tiebreaker toss-up. I asked for the largest city in Kentucky and the kid buzzed in and answered \"Louisville\", but he said the \'s\'. LEW-iss-vill. I gave it to him without batting an eye, and nobody had a problem, including the other team. The intent was there. He did not mean Lexington. (Earlier in the game, the same kid pronounced the \'s\' at the end of Les Miserables, and again, he did not mean Don Quixote.) We tell our teams that we rely on a lot of that sort of judging, and that overall, we are more lenient than Jeopardy or NAQT, and again, nobody has a problem with that. To me, that\'s the only rational way of running a quiz game.
/We\'re not using NAQT questions this year, so if I\'m lucky, I\'ll never have to see their pedantic footnote about Invisible Man/The Invisible Man ever again.
with a
HispanicFilipino accent
Fixed that for you.
/peeks dat por you.
I\'m still waiting to see where the slam was from Yahoo. It called out the show for being too picky, but that\'s not a slam.
Golly, I missed it by that much. Humble apologies.Fixed that for you.
/peeks dat por you.
I\'m still waiting to see where the slam was from Yahoo. It called out the show for being too picky, but that\'s not a slam.
Headline from Yahoo: \"What\'s the Deal With \'Jeopardy!\'? Show Slammed Over \'Seinfeld\' Snafu\"
Brandon: \"Where\'s the slam on Yahoo?\"
Me: ¿Que?
Right. I think Yahoo is merely serving as the messenger...they\'re reporting the criticism from others. Just a little semantics issue, but I now see where the initial confusion may come from.
When I was reading this, I thought of 80s versions of Pyramid, and how strict they were at times. There was at least one incident I recall where a contestant got the last box for the $10,000 jackpot a fraction of a second after the buzzer went. IIRC, they went to commercial and came back and denied the contestant the money. Dick explained that \"...it\'s not the money...\", but that they had to follow certain rules. If they allowed that win to stand, then what about someone who\'s a half-second over, or 1 second...where does it end? They had the rules in place to be fair to everybody and enforced it strictly.
I\'m not saying Jeopardy was right or wrong...although I probably would have allowed the answer to stand. If they\'re following the \"hard-ass\" rules (as someone posted up-thread), they\'re calling it that way for everybody.
I guess a lot of it depends on the mood of the judges. On the original Split Second, I recall they were picky at times...whereas on the \'80s remake, Monty was the judge and was more lenient.
I guess this means Sofia Vergara won\'t be invited to Celebrity Jeopardy!.
Twitter. A useful resource for spreading news and information. Also, a cesspool for idiots to wager their grievances against non-existent problems. So powerful that the entertainment industry uses it to measure success, yet so reckless at the same time.
I understand intent and all, but this was clearly a case of Alex and the judges hearing something different than Elaine. He didn\'t say it clearly and as a result this happens. But since that\'s too much for people to process and just move on to the next episode, they go to their keyboard. And since a government shutdown isn\'t riveting news, news sites pick it up.
I\'ve seen this story on Huffington Post as well.
I\'m several episodes behind on my Jeopardy-watching, so I\'m not at all familiar with the contestant\'s voice in any way other than that clip, but I\'ve heard them accept worse mispronunciations in the past, particularly from people with thick accents or speech impediments.
With regard to the Louisville mispronunciation, it seems that a lot of smart people are \"book-smart.\" They\'ve never heard the word but have read it, so they form their own idea on how it is pronounced. One of the recent J! champs did that with famous names.
I don\'t think that\'s as far off-base as you do.Or maybe they relax the rules a bit for celebs. Kidding.
At a QuizBusters taping Tuesday, we had a game go down to a quick tiebreaker toss-up. I asked for the largest city in Kentucky and the kid buzzed in and answered \"Louisville\", but he said the \'s\'. LEW-iss-vill. I gave it to him without batting an eye, and nobody had a problem, including the other team. The intent was there. He did not mean Lexington.
Point of order 1: There is a Lewisville here in Texas, and apparently no city with that spelling in Kentucky.
Point of order 2: There is a famous sign showing the various pronunciations of Louisville, KY, none of which contain an \"S.\"
How much are we splitting hairs? How much is it accent, how much of it is lack of knowledge?
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At a QuizBusters taping Tuesday, we had a game go down to a quick tiebreaker toss-up. I asked for the largest city in Kentucky and the kid buzzed in and answered \"Louisville\", but he said the \'s\'. LEW-iss-vill. I gave it to him without batting an eye, and nobody had a problem, including the other team.
As an aside, Louisville, Colorado, is pronounced \"LEW-iss-vill\" - it took me several months to get used to that when I moved to Denver.
At a QuizBusters taping Tuesday, we had a game go down to a quick tiebreaker toss-up. I asked for the largest city in Kentucky and the kid buzzed in and answered \"Louisville\", but he said the \'s\'. LEW-iss-vill. I gave it to him without batting an eye, and nobody had a problem, including the other team.
As an aside, Louisville, Colorado, is pronounced \"LEW-iss-vill\" - it took me several months to get used to that when I moved to Denver.
Is that Col-O-Rodd-O or Col-O-Radd-O?
Matt, if \"Norfolk, Virginia\" ever comes up in one of your questions, please do not stop tape if a student answers and the second syllable sounds vulgar. ;-)
If Mr. Norfolk and Mr. Goode went into business together...
Here in Iowa: We have towns like Madrid (\"MAD-drid\"), Nevada (\"Neh-VEY-dah\") and Cario (\"kay-ro\").
Here in Iowa: We have towns like Madrid (\"MAD-drid\"), Nevada (\"Neh-VEY-dah\") and Cario (\"kay-ro\").
And Michigan has Charlotte (SHAR-lott) and Milan (MY-lun), among others. I live a few minutes from a four-corners called Mikado, which is (MY-kay-doh).
And let\'s not forget that J!\'s sister show is just as much of a stickler on pronounciation most of the time.
Here in Iowa: We have towns like Madrid (\"MAD-drid\"), Nevada (\"Neh-VEY-dah\") and Cario (\"kay-ro\").
And Michigan has Charlotte (SHAR-lott) and Milan (MY-lun), among others. I live a few minutes from a four-corners called Mikado, which is (MY-kay-doh).
And let\'s not forget that J!\'s sister show is just as much of a stickler on pronounciation most of the time.
You\'re not too far from Mackinaw, I mean, Mackinac Island, IIRC.
And Michigan has Charlotte (SHAR-lott)
Wanna try again?
I guess this means Sofia Vergara won\'t be invited to Celebrity Jeopardy!.
She could just stand there and I\'d watch.
And Michigan has Charlotte (SHAR-lott)
Wanna try again?
You take this one, you\'re closer.
Meanwhile, I\'ll work on finding someone who can pronounce \"Oscoda\" correctly.
And Michigan has Charlotte (SHAR-lott)
Wanna try again?
You take this one, you\'re closer.
Well, it seemed to be a big deal to you.
SHAR-lott is more or less how people would expect it to be said, which would make it a pretty lousy example if it wasn\'t completely wrong. The mid-Michigan community\'s name is pronounced shar-LOTT.