Jeopardy tries hard, I'm sure
Dec. 20th, 2007 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuThanks to a posting in Language Log I learned that last Friday (when Shabbat-observant Jews couldn't watch and catch any mistakes) Jeopardy! had a category called "Let's Learn Hebrew" (scroll down to see it; it's the rightmost category in Double Jeopardy!)
In the $400 question they used a mem sofit (ם) instead of a samech (ס) to spell the root סדר. In the $800 question they asserted that יד is the word for "fourteen". (It's not; it's the word for "hand" but its gematria adds up to 14.) And in the $2000 question they put a dagesh in the final tav of בראשית.
I mean, if you can't trust Jeopardy! to fact-check, what else is there to have faith in anymore?
In the $400 question they used a mem sofit (ם) instead of a samech (ס) to spell the root סדר. In the $800 question they asserted that יד is the word for "fourteen". (It's not; it's the word for "hand" but its gematria adds up to 14.) And in the $2000 question they put a dagesh in the final tav of בראשית.
I mean, if you can't trust Jeopardy! to fact-check, what else is there to have faith in anymore?