Volante wrote:Magna wrote:davey wrote:I'm annoyed at the contestants for avoiding Pig Latin Latin...sounded like fun, and couldn't have been harder than the clues we saw...
Based on the explanation Alex gave, it's possible they thought the entire response had to be in Pig Latin (not just the key word). I'd probably have gone for it, but I could see someone being reluctant to try to risk embarrassment and loss of money based on their ability to phrase a whole question in Pig Latin.
Possible if they never touched the category, but we were shown the first clue and the judges accepted "What is apiensay?" (sapien).
It doesn't matter here since it doesn't affect the pronunciation, but that's "apiens
say"; contestants have been dinged for saying "homo sapien" in the past.
edit: Speaking of precedent...
omgwheelhouse wrote:The show is pretty harsh on people not understanding the category, so I definitely don't think anyone would be getting any credit for an oddball interpretation of what the 5 meant.
They've had categories before with unexplained gimmicks that become clear only after a clue gets negged on, and then reversed the neg because that person's response fit a different interpretation of the clue that thorough explanation of the gimmick would have dispelled.
The one specific example I can name is from
Robert K S's second game, in which there was a category "Hybrids" whose gimmick was requiring the contestants to give the two components of each portmanteau in the clues (Alex said "give us the two things that make up the one"). The first clue given was "tangelo," a portmanteau of "tangerine" and "pomelo." But tangelos can be grown by crossbreeding tangerines with grapefruits as well, and since the category name and Alex's explanation didn't rule out naming the botanical components rather than the verbal ones, they gave the contestant who said "tangerine and grapefruit" credit after initially negging her.