Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

They seem a little looser with the rules, too. At one point there is a question about Batman where one contestant answers, "Poison Ivy" and the host is like, "No we want the actress" and the guy says, "Uma Thurman" and gets it right.

Later on no one buzzes in on one of the questions and after the host is ready to move on one guy tries to hit the buzzer and the host is like, "Oh hey you want to answer?" And the guy gives a response.

In the late 90s there was a Mexican version of Jeopardy!, and for some reason they decided to add dancing girls to it: https://youtu.be/P0DUhx0avLw?si=9-eF21sIIsSz68eF

I did not expect them to dance for quite so long at the beginning there...

@eric I remember the first time I saw them I was like, "Oh that is an interesting duck wait what the fuck is going on down there‽"

@Log3overLog2 I wonder if a generalization exists for N paper l parties? Can you start with 4N districts, have party 2 combine, then party 3 combine again?

I'm guessing no, since in the extreme case you have log2(population) parties, the "define" party is forced to define 1-person districts and is effectively left out of the process...

@brainwane I have been learning Spanish with Dreaming Spanish last 6 months or so and I do sorta see where they are coming from on waiting to acquire a lot of the language before speaking. With ~400 hours of Spanish, I am comfortable enough understanding the language that I have noticed a bunch of things about the pronunciation and differences in accent that I am sure I would have to consciously change if I had been speaking from the start.

@brainwane The comprehensible input people apparently agree with you, since they think you basically don't talk at all until you basically know the language 😛

https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

@kevin I think the idea is that they are not going to make a second season, so the expectation is that the entire story will be told in 8 episodes or whatever, rather than just having a season end in a cliffhanger or dragged out for several seasons or whatever.

@hynek I don't know how much I hate reading paper books because I don't think I've read one in 12 years or so, but I was surprised at where this went. For me reading on a phone or tablet is not nearly as good as reading on a front-lit epaper device. Once the Kindle Paperwhite came out I was like, "Well, never need to read a physical book again I guess!"

@fantazo Totally forgot about that one. Yeah, that is nice for language learners, it's always so hard to keep track of the huge number of overlapping metaphorical meanings of different prepositions, where prepositions used in each situation are very case-by-case.

I find it interesting in [this post](https://blogs.transparent.com/esperanto/je-the-esperanto-wildcard-preposition/) they seem to claim that the use of "en" for "in a given time period" has a clear meaning, but "je" is used for "at a specific time". I kinda feel like you either say that a specific spatial metaphors make sense about each phrase, or you should use "je" for both, since the preposition doesn't provide additional information.

For a specific day, you have "before", "after" and "around" where the meanings would be clear and would be made ambiguous if you swapped them around, but if you swapped out "at" or "in" for "on" with "this day", it would sound wrong, but the metaphor would be roughly the same.

Another good bit of grammar from Esperanto, the preposition [je](https://blogs.transparent.com/esperanto/je-the-esperanto-wildcard-preposition/).

These are just two of the affixes, by the way. I really liked the whole system of them, it makes it pretty easy to quickly build a big vocabulary, and it's very expressive: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Esperanto/Appendix/Table_of_affixes

-ul = person characterized by (juna = young, junulo = a youth)
-ej = place characterized by (lerni = to learn, lernejo = school)
-ilo = instrument (skribi = write, skribilo = writing implement)

They can also be used by themselves, like:

iĝi = to become
ulo = dude, chap
ilo = tool

One thing I really like about #Esperanto is the infix -iĝ- which refers to becoming, it basically makes words intransitive, like:

So ruĝa = red, ruĝiĝi = to blush
naski = to give birth, naskiĝi = to be born
edzi = to marry, edziĝi = to get married

There is a similar (maybe annoyingly so) infix for "to make/cause", -ig-, which makes them transitive:

morti = to die, mortigi = to kill
riĉa = rich, riĉigi = to become rich, riĉigi = to enrich

Those and the question marker "ĉu" are features I often wish I had in other languages.