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Four questions on Esperanto on University Challenge

de sudanglo, 2011-decembro-27

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Lingvo: English

sudanglo (Montri la profilon) 2011-decembro-27 17:48:08

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ludomastro (Montri la profilon) 2011-decembro-27 22:38:40

Excellent! Thanks you for posting.

robbkvasnak (Montri la profilon) 2011-decembro-27 23:23:42

The contestants obviously don't know much about any other languages - maybe they tiptoed through French classes...

ludomastro (Montri la profilon) 2011-decembro-28 06:18:35

Having participated in that type of quiz competition in my youth, they may have simply frozen under the influence of the ticking clock.

Miland (Montri la profilon) 2011-decembro-28 11:03:16

Good publicity. I hope we see more, although to be suitable for non-Esperantists, the questions would need to be amenable to intelligent guessing.

lgg (Montri la profilon) 2011-decembro-28 11:09:50

Miland:...to be suitable for non-Esperantists, the questions would need to be amenable to intelligent guessing.
Providing the Esperanto vocabulary stems heavily from school Latin course and French, most words and grammar structure can be guessed easily.

sudanglo (Montri la profilon) 2011-decembro-28 11:32:07

Yes Miland, very good publicity indeed.

For those who don't know this programme, let me explain that this is a very long-running quiz programme on UK TV watched by many and with questions of a 'cultured' variety - many on history, the arts, language, geography, and politics.

The inclusion of questions on Esperanto strongly implies that this is something of which an educated person should have some knowledge.

This taken with the recent use of an Esperanto greeting by a BBC Radio 4 presenter on Esperanto Day, honouring Zamenhof's birthday, suggests that the Zeitgeist for Esperanto may be changing.

lgg (Montri la profilon) 2011-decembro-28 14:51:49

sudanglo:The inclusion of questions on Esperanto strongly implies that this is something of which an educated person should have some knowledge.
Not at all. These were linguistic contest-style questions, they were supposed to make a guess basing on sentence structure and words similar to Latin ones.

sudanglo (Montri la profilon) 2011-decembro-28 19:55:06

Wrong Igg. The strategy that might be used by a panel member to guess the answers has little to do with the branding effect.

I suppose you have to know the programme to judge the likely interpretation by the viewer.

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