Monday, May 9, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Monday, May 9, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
While I appreciate all that Harry does for the show, that was a pretty bogus explanation (with several reasons cited above). My initial reaction, Kaberi, was to deny it as well, but I certainly would have taken your explanation (and it did demand an explanation; it's not like you didn't clearly know it).
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Re: Monday, May 9, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Hobson's Choice... such fun! Henry Ford on Hobson: "You can have a new Model T in any color you want, as long as it's black!" YAY!!
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Re: Monday, May 9, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
From Kaberi's story it sounds like Harry realized pretty quickly that he didn't want to go any further down that road.alietr wrote:While I appreciate all that Harry does for the show, that was a pretty bogus explanation (with several reasons cited above). My initial reaction, Kaberi, was to deny it as well, but I certainly would have taken your explanation (and it did demand an explanation; it's not like you didn't clearly know it).
The situation does produce a bit of a quandary. Kaberi obviously knows what she's talking about but they can't just take her word for it. In Harry's place, I'd have gone back to the judges and said, "She's clearly right. Find a source that confirms that so we can start the show back up."
It sounds as though they may have started out from the wrong end in chasing this thing down. If you search for "taka" (which is what they heard), Google immediately informs you that's the currency of Bangladesh. So they went down that rabbit trail. It's true that Taka is not a variant Latin-alphabet spelling of Dhaka. It's also irrelevant.
If you attack this from the other end, Kaberi's story gets confirmed pretty quickly. Googling <Dhaka pronunciation Bengali> will quickly get you links to audio of native speakers saying the name. E.g.
http://www.shabdkosh.com/bn/translate/% ... li-English
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Re: Monday, May 9, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
The Samanid and Achamaenid (Persian) Empires both preceded Timur-i-Lengh by many centuries.goatman wrote:Hobson's Choice... such fun! Henry Ford on Hobson: "You can have a new Model T in any color you want, as long as it's black!" YAY!!
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Re: Monday, May 9, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I ran into Maggie as I was leaving the hotel the next day. I told her I had the impression that there must have been somebody backstage arguing in my favor. She confirmed that there was. She said that they needed 2 independent sources to consider my response acceptable. I don't recall what the first one was, but she said they also called a Bengali restaurant (!). Which was funny, because at the theater that day, after it was over, we were wondering if perhaps they had called the Bangladeshi embassy ( would they have found anybody there on a Sunday morning?). Everybody I spoke to afterwards was really nice about it, saying that I had stood up for myself, etc. What a remarkable coincidence that I had to stand up for an answer that was so personal to me.opusthepenguin wrote:From Kaberi's story it sounds like Harry realized pretty quickly that he didn't want to go any further down that road.alietr wrote:While I appreciate all that Harry does for the show, that was a pretty bogus explanation (with several reasons cited above). My initial reaction, Kaberi, was to deny it as well, but I certainly would have taken your explanation (and it did demand an explanation; it's not like you didn't clearly know it).
The situation does produce a bit of a quandary. Kaberi obviously knows what she's talking about but they can't just take her word for it. In Harry's place, I'd have gone back to the judges and said, "She's clearly right. Find a source that confirms that so we can start the show back up."
It sounds as though they may have started out from the wrong end in chasing this thing down. If you search for "taka" (which is what they heard), Google immediately informs you that's the currency of Bangladesh. So they went down that rabbit trail. It's true that Taka is not a variant Latin-alphabet spelling of Dhaka. It's also irrelevant.
If you attack this from the other end, Kaberi's story gets confirmed pretty quickly. Googling <Dhaka pronunciation Bengali> will quickly get you links to audio of native speakers saying the name. E.g.
http://www.shabdkosh.com/bn/translate/% ... li-English
I did sort of think to myself that if it had gone the other way, all the Bengalis that we would have asked to watch the show would have been in an uproar (We, as a community, can be a little oversensitive and highfalutin' at times). But as it stands, it helped me get to the finals, and it gave me a great story to tell, so it's all good.