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Four questions on Esperanto on University Challenge

kelle poolt sudanglo, 27. detsember 2011

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sudanglo (Näita profiili) 27. detsember 2011 17:48.08

Watch here

ludomastro (Näita profiili) 27. detsember 2011 22:38.40

Excellent! Thanks you for posting.

robbkvasnak (Näita profiili) 27. detsember 2011 23:23.42

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

ludomastro (Näita profiili) 28. detsember 2011 6:18.35

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

Miland (Näita profiili) 28. detsember 2011 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 (Näita profiili) 28. detsember 2011 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 (Näita profiili) 28. detsember 2011 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 (Näita profiili) 28. detsember 2011 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 (Näita profiili) 28. detsember 2011 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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