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lgg (显示个人资料) 2011年12月28日上午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 (显示个人资料) 2011年12月28日上午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.
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 (显示个人资料) 2011年12月28日下午2:51:49
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.