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- Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Quizbowl Style Guide
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4739
Re: A Quizbowl Style Guide
I like the word "identify," and I don't like the word "name." I feel the latter is unnecessarily succinct and don't use it. These sorts of things are difference of flavor rather than substance. Well, yes and no. If you think the stylistic advantage gained by using "identify...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Quizbowl Style Guide
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4739
A Quizbowl Style Guide
A lot of tournaments I’ve seen lately commit manifold offenses against what, to me, at least, represents good question-writing style. The primary purpose of a quizbowl question is to be immediately understood as heard, and I feel like there are constructions that can be avoided—and often aren’t—that...
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at Brown, 2/26/11
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4097
ACF Regionals at Brown, 2/26/11
Brown University in Providence, RI, will be hosting ACF Regionals THIS SATURDAY, February 26. Ian can respond with where this tournament will be held; for now, assume that it's in Wilson Hall and that we'll start registration around 8:15, with the first round beginning at 9. It may end up being in B...
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2011 Global Announcement (February 26, 2011)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 142599
Re: ACF Regionals 2011 Global Announcement (February 26, 2011)
Now waiting to hear back from Penn and NYU. Brown has volunteered their services as an emergency site. Both of those sites seem like they would be rather inconvenient for the New England set. Are there mid-Atlantic teams that might come to this that aren't already going to W&M but that would go...
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERRILLA III - Friday, 4/8/11 - ICT Hotel, Chicago
- Replies: 107
- Views: 20378
Re: GUERRILLA III - Friday, 4/8/11 - ICT Hotel, Chicago
Sleeping in Logan sucks, man. IT CONTINUESThe Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:That phenomenon was associated with my presence.Sir Thopas wrote:Assuming we don't have any travel catastrophes this year
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERRILLA III - Friday, 4/8/11 - ICT Hotel, Chicago
- Replies: 107
- Views: 20378
Re: GUERRILLA III - Friday, 4/8/11 - ICT Hotel, Chicago
Assuming we don't have any travel catastrophes this year, I'd like to get in on this.
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prompts and Protests
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2738
Re: Prompts and Protests
Well, unless the answer was something like John Quincy Adams, where a player has to make it extremely clear (I think there's even a thing about this in the NAQT and/or ACF rules) that they don't mean the other President John Adams (whose wiki page you get if you just type in "John Adams")...
- Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Region 1 SCT at Harvard (2/5/11)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3930
Re: Region 1 SCT at Harvard (2/5/11)
We'll almost certainly have 2 teams.
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: The Sack of Antwerp (Chicago 2/19/2011)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 81037
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The Sack of Antwerp (Chicago 2/19/2011)
Brown would be interested.Tees-Exe Line wrote:That's a good question. I emailed a couple of people and invited proposals for mirror sites, but I haven't had much interest. So I'll put it out there again: I would like the tournament to be mirrored if anyone is interested in hosting.
- Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:34 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 64110
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
And it surely varies with dialect too, like everything. I guess it would be more like that in the north? I don't know much about dialectal variation in Welsh, so no idea about north/south, but you're probably right about it varying, in any case. I'm pretty sure the north has a bunch more tight roun...
- Wed Dec 15, 2010 4:33 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 64110
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
And it surely varies with dialect too, like everything. I guess it would be more like that in the north? I don't know much about dialectal variation in Welsh, so no idea about north/south, but you're probably right about it varying, in any case. I'm pretty sure the north has a bunch more tight roun...
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:29 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 64110
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
I don't have my IPA handbook here, haha awesome but I think the Swedish r is /r/. If any of them is the odd one out in that regard, it's Danish, which has the same r as German. Finnish does have single and double r, though (like single and double everything), so a double r as in ymmärrän will be pr...
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:00 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 64110
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
Oops, missed that somehow. Carry on.Nicklausse/Muse wrote:I already said that.
Blodeuwedd - another one with the "eu" that sounds like "oi," but possibly more importantly, a double d. The "dd" is a voiced "th," like in "there."
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 11:30 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 64110
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
"dd" is pronounced like the soft "th" in "the". So Cardiff is Caerdydd, and is pronounced something like "kare-dith", where the "dith" is the first syllable in "dither".Nicklausse/Muse wrote:Did I miss any really confusing names or important rules?
- Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:13 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 64110
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
This is a very useful post, much more useful than arguing about orthography. One point that may be of interest regarding Russian: Russian has a weird letter called ы which I guess is pronounced something like "ee" but with the tongue curled somewhat towards the back of the throat. This is...
- Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:32 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 64110
Re: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
Awesome. Since you so kindly didn't fill in Czech, I'll do so. As Charles mentioned numerous times but never explicitly stated (unless I missed it), all Slavic languages have retrograde consonant assimilation and final devoicing. This first bit of jargon means that, for example, the word teďka is pr...
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 5:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THUNDER Discussion
- Replies: 101
- Views: 17784
Re: THUNDER Discussion
I don't know how the whole tossup looked, but Edvard Benes and Klement Gottwald aren't particularly Czech names. I buzzed because I knew the clues, not because I frauded it. Also, boo on that question for mentioning Bohumil Hrabal's tenth most famous work instead of his fifth most famous work. Perh...
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THUNDER Discussion
- Replies: 101
- Views: 17784
Re: THUNDER Discussion
The only tossup outside my categories that I remember being bothered by was the tossup on Defenestrations of Prague, which was a giant game of chicken, since it started dropping Czech names by the second line, making it abundantly clear that it was looking for some kind of event that happened multi...
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THUNDER II at Yale (12/04/2010)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7168
Re: THUNDER II at Yale (12/04/2010)
I would love to play this at lunch.gyre and gimble wrote:Is there any chance Mike Bentley's visual arts thing could be run at this tournament? I've been wanting to play it but I feel like this might be the last opportunity to do so, as it's been played/will be played this weekend in most other regions.
- Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: VCU Fall Tournament (11/20)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13426
- Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THUNDER II at Yale (12/04/2010)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7168
Re: THUNDER II at Yale (12/04/2010)
We'll probably bring 2 teams.
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33008
Re: ACF Fall Discussion
and saying Miguel Tejada was part of the Orioles was probably wrong when the question was written). My biggest issue with the tournament was the form of many of the lit bonuses. All too often it seemed that the order of a given lit bonus seemed to be: Wrote it in June, actually. Didn't bother to th...
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33008
Re: ACF Fall Discussion
Just off the top of my head, Sartre and Gibbs Free Energy were repeated, both in the same round. Was Sartre really a repeat? At the point the question was gotten in my room, it was all about his philosophy stuff, and the earlier bonus was about his literature. Personality was definitely a repeat in...
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33008
Re: ACF Fall Discussion
This is a minor point, but since it no doubt impacted matches, it's worth bringing up. The sports seemed really skewed towards minor/international sports. Besides the Orioles tossup, no other sports question read at our mirror had to do with football, basketball, or baseball. There was a common-lin...
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33008
Re: ACF Fall Discussion
Awful mistake on my part, conflated it with 1969. My apologies.Cheynem wrote:*The Orioles did not win the 1973 World Series.
- Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Accent marks on foreign words
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10314
Re: Accent marks on foreign words
TO SE MŮŽE STOJÍ HORŠÍM!!Ronnie the Bear wrote:In this video, Jerry is Antoine Walker and the rest of this thread is Marcus Camby. This post is Zydrunas Ilgauskas.
- Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Accent marks on foreign words
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10314
Re: Accent marks on foreign words
Point 2: Any moderator that is confused by something like the pronunciation of Capek will be told that this is how it's pronounced. Assuming as I do that moderators are reasonable human beings, they will most likely accept the explanation. Anyway, even if you had an accent mark on there, why would ...
- Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Wording in Questions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7298
Re: Wording in Questions
In that vein, I like the suggestion someone made in an earlier thread, which is to put hyphens between the syllables of names of really long chemical compounds, since trying to parse their syllables on the fly can easily trip up even experienced moderators. Since hyphens can sometimes have actual o...
- Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Wording in Questions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7298
Re: Wording in Questions
Speaking of that, we should all learn the difference between "that" and "which." 1. "The dog that sits in the corner" is correct. Despite all of the 1930s judicial opinions you may be reading that say otherwise, "The dog which sits in the corner" is not. &quo...
- Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF policy question about HS teams
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4066
Re: ACF policy question about HS teams
So I'm kinda late to the party, but I'll add my two cents: Part of the draw for us is not just the harder than average questions or the ability to play the rather hermit-y State College A-team and the distant Dorman team, but it's the opportunity to play against and lose to some of the great colleg...
- Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying Pronunciation
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19972
Re: Studying Pronunciation
potch.quizbowllee wrote:Huitzilopochtli = WEET - ZILL - OH - POKT - LEE
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying Pronunciation
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19972
Re: Studying Pronunciation
Given my agenda of liberalizing pronunciation rules and pronunciation procedures in quizbowl, I am unnerved by this thread. I guess the most forceful statement I'm willing to make is that it's in everyone's interest if moderators, on their own initiative, spent a not very significant amount of time...
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying Pronunciation
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19972
Re: Studying Pronunciation
With all due respect, no one really knows what the IPA moon runes mean, and I don't think that saying "go learn IPA!" is a good response. Look at all these lovely earth runes! My concern is that if you spend hours training your moderators to pronounce foreign words "correctly", ...
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying Pronunciation
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19972
Re: Studying Pronunciation
A bit on the lazy side, really. Wikipedia is fantastic with languages.Ronnie the Bear wrote:Who do these people think they are, asking for correct pronunciations?!?!?!?!?!?/1/1/1/1//11/1.1,dsafljk
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying Pronunciation
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19972
Re: Studying Pronunciation
Why are we still discussing this? As I implied in the crosslinked thread, it's far more productive to spend half an hour learning how to pronounce French and German than memorizing the pronunciation of dozens of names individually.
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On-going season rankings
- Replies: 391
- Views: 125013
Re: On-going season rankings
I would have made of it that your victory was even more impressive with Zihan than it would have been against the Hunter B regulars.Edward Powers wrote:Dante (Bichette), you are too funny!
- Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:00 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Studying Pronunciation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3095
Re: Studying Pronunciation
We were going to make a universal pronunciation guide a while ago, but that quickly petered out. I guess I'll just give a few basic tips that are more or less applicable everywhere. The thing that differentiates English orthography from most other Latin orthographies (especially transliterations, fo...
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Copy edit your questions
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4977
Re: Copy edit your questions
Grammatical errors also spawn the secondary problem of moderators delaying the tournament by saying some variant of "LOL THAT QUESTION DIDNT HAVE GRAMMAR!" after every tossup, which can lead to serious delays, especially if one of the teams in the room decides to also chime in with their ...
- Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: EFT 5 at Brown NEW DATE (10/2/10)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18331
Re: Announcement: EFT 5 at Brown NEW DATE (10/2/10)
Just a notice that, as in years past, an afterparty will be held at some point after the tournament (probably after a dinner), and quizbowlers all are welcome to attend.
- Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcement regarding the chief administrator
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9139
Re: Announcement regarding the chief administrator
That some jackass social-climber would even think of talking to one of the few people who has actually accomplished something meaningful for PACE in that way is an infuriating example of the sort of upside-down world that Trygve's regime creates. How do you know about this? These are proceedings wh...
- Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Accent marks on foreign words
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10314
Re: Accent marks on foreign words
I assume this is a reference to the Hungarian name Kádár. The trouble is that "a" and "á" are pronounced differently in Hungarian. If you have a reader who actually knows how to read the Hungarian alphabet (and didn't someone here announce that they were going to write up a quiz...
- Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
- Replies: 275
- Views: 116201
Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
It's in #qb.wd4gdz wrote:I was in #quizbowl waiting for this before Matt Weiner kicked me out. Anyone happen to see this and care to tell me what room, assuming not #quizbowl, this is in?
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Planned HS Top 25(+?) Rankings
- Replies: 51
- Views: 12732
Re: Planned HS Top 25(+?) Rankings
Hunter returns everyone for two more years.Ronnie the Bear wrote:Hunter* - Lily & York are definitely back. I think Zihan is too, but I don't know about Paul
- Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
- Replies: 275
- Views: 116201
Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
I'd rather do it before Wednesday, if possible.
- Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Accent marks on foreign words
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10314
Re: Accent marks on foreign words
I tend to keep diacritics for mostly aesthetic purposes, but in general, you're right, of course. Also, if you want to put diacritics on some names, you probably have to go and look up every single name in a reliable, diacritic-retaining source, which is a pain.
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
- Replies: 275
- Views: 116201
Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
So I'll tentatively suggest the coming Wednesday, August 25th, at 8 PM as a good date for people who want to play the rest of the questions and the packets of death on IRC. If no one vocalizes their inconvenience either here or over email, I'll assume that date is fine with everyone. Which packets ...
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open thanks and discussions
- Replies: 126
- Views: 36740
Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussions
Holy shit, awesome. Weimar Germany in general is probably a bit neglected in QB other than Brecht and Weill, so this is good to see.Megalomaniacal Panda on Absinthe wrote:With regards to the "other" arts, I tried to hit on some otherwise neglected things: Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf
- Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hide Your Unauthorized Participation in Quizbowl Well!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3632
Re: Hide Your Unauthorized Participation in Quizbowl Well!
Doug Yetman has some stories he can disgruntledly tell you.
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:00 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSAPQ NASAT Discussion!
- Replies: 57
- Views: 27130
Re: 2010 HSAPQ NASAT Discussion!
It seems like the years '10 and '12 are switched in numerous places.
EDIT: Oh wait, those are grade numbers with apostrophes next to them, not years of graduation. How confusing.
EDIT: Oh wait, those are grade numbers with apostrophes next to them, not years of graduation. How confusing.
- Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC schedule/discussion 2010
- Replies: 68
- Views: 13590
Re: NAC schedule/discussion 2010
That's the spirit!ceejay wrote:Longfellow A won the Junior NAC at Marymount. One especially good question asked what the internet term that was the 12th letter of the alphabet followed by the number 8 followed by the 18th letter of the alphabet meant. I hope I can go to PACE next year as TJ D or something.