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Four questions on Esperanto on University Challenge

by sudanglo, December 27, 2011

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sudanglo (User's profile) December 27, 2011, 5:48:08 PM

Watch here

ludomastro (User's profile) December 27, 2011, 10:38:40 PM

Excellent! Thanks you for posting.

robbkvasnak (User's profile) December 27, 2011, 11:23:42 PM

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

ludomastro (User's profile) December 28, 2011, 6:18:35 AM

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

Miland (User's profile) December 28, 2011, 11:03:16 AM

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 (User's profile) December 28, 2011, 11:09:50 AM

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 (User's profile) December 28, 2011, 11:32:07 AM

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 (User's profile) December 28, 2011, 2:51:49 PM

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 (User's profile) December 28, 2011, 7:55:06 PM

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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