'Jeopardy!' faces backlash after all 3 contestants mispronounce answer
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2023
- All three "Jeopardy!" contestants lost out when they mispronounced a response to a clue, leading to swift backlash on social media. #cnn #news #shorts
As a Russian speaker, I can confirm that none of them, including the host, pronounced the name correctly.
I think the host pronounced it correctly.
@@alexsilent5603 No, she did not...Jerry is correct.
@@alexsilent5603 Солженицин, это фамилия
@@kaleriashin8306 Понятно, что это фамилия, и что с того?
@@alexsilent5603 Слава Украине!
Well, frankly i don't believe Mayim said it correctly either.
that's what I thought too
Maybe that kind of question should be a final jeopardy where they gotta write it out instead 🤷🏻
If you cant pronounce the word properly how will you spell it correctly? Missing letters etc. 😅😂
@@9babyblubecause if you know the answer, it is likely you have seen it written before. And yes, there might be missing letters, which would make for a more exciting Final Jeopardy question
Maybe people need to stop crying about every lil thing.
Nobody would spell it right. It's easier to say than to spell.
At least during Alex Trebeck days, several times he said correct spelling is not required in Final Jeopardy.
That should be a “do over” for all 3 of these contestants.
No do-overs. They all pronounced it incorrectly. Right, wrong or indifferent..... Pronunciation matters..... Therefore no money.
No. The first, badly pronounced but obviously correct answer should be accepted. Points adjusted.
That is the fairest solution. In Texas, too many white people or hispanics that do not speak Spanish last names correctly.
Martinez is not Mart-N-ez
@@thomthom6268 You’re not thinking that through. You can’t judge a correct answer by intention. That just wouldn’t work. You’d find that out in one day. As soon as, say, the answer is Einstein, and someone says, “Eitensein, well, you know the guy I mean, the scientist.”
Wonder if the guy/girl is thinking about a do-over. Lol
In my opinion that is one of the most disturbing scenes, they obviously know the answer
Disturbing is a strong word for the situation
@@Samoni0608 i say not strong enough. Downright frightening. Shook me to my core
@@dukedeguerre You need therapy
@@Samoni0608 disturbing is not as strong as “hate” but I hate the fact that well versed contestants received no credit for their knowledge
What's disturbing is that Jeopardy expects us to believe Hannah is a woman lmfao
Even she pronounced it wrong. It's sol zhe NEET sin. If she can't get it right, they shouldn't dock the contestants
WRONG!
Nope even that's wrong..🤷♂️
It's ridiculous. Now you have to pronounce the name perfectly as in the native language? Absurd!
@@atenachos6282 Not the way Americans have been pronouncing it for 60 years. Just look it up or watch old news clips. I'm 61, and that's the way I heard it 100s of times. Point is, the host got it just as wrong as the contestants did. If you're going to be that exacting about it, then you have to get it right --at least--yourself. But the whole thing was silly from bottom to top: it's a name from another language and the contestant--actually all of them--identified the right person. There was no confusion about it. That should be enough.
They always ding you for wrong pronunciation
You know what the fuck they meant!!!!!
I figured I couldn't get through the comments without the obligatory worn-out ubiquitous F-bomb. is that the only adjective people know anymore?
Hannah pronounced it like the host did😂😂
Jeopardy should have thought about how hard that name was to pronounce when they made up the question.
Long time fan since the Art Fleming days. But on this one, you blew it, Jeopardy.
they all knew who it was!! this is totally ridiculous!! :P to Jeopardy people!!!
I agree. They adequately identified the person in question by name. No mistake about it. That is, I believe, the objective. Many responses get credited, notwithstanding some minor mispronunciation. This was quite out of step with standard protocol. A glaring anomaly, if you will. I think that's why it stuck out so much.
~TD, Boston
Nope jeopardy has always been strict on pronunciation.
@@therock8288 I respectfully disagree. Especially, when it comes to a name that, when spelled out in its native language, is done so in a different alphabet altogether. At the very least, she could have prompted the contestants to repeat. They all identified the person quite adequately. There was no mistake about it. They are sticklers for pronunciation only if and when it causes confusion with someone or something other than the correct answer, in which case they will prompt the contestant to repeat.
~TD
They all knew and answered over 90% correct pronunciation first try. Should've stopped with the first one. Not knowing Cyrillic pronunciation shouldn't matter in America. Albuquerque doesn't even spell or pronounce it's own name right. How many know that? How much does it matter if you pronounced it as it was presented to you or how you read it?
Lets do Latin binomial nomenclature and see what the f is 👆 anyway.
How do they spell Albuquerque??
@@RdanglRd White Oak
That was badly handled.
So Everyone got it right, it's just nobody pronounced it correctly? Hope this doesn't happen in the future. It's a game and I can find clips of former contestants that didn't pronounce correctly and got it right. Funny tho. 💯
Jeopardy I'd always strict on pronunciation. This happens often. But usually one
Contestant pronounces it right.
Tom-ay-tow, Tom-ah-tow
They shouldn't have even used that question!
They, all three, were correct. Knew who the guy was.
This happens like once every five years on a game show it helps rating. But jeopardy has always been strict on pronunciation.
That's a woman.
I guess we all need to take an RSL course. This was a bad look, Jeopardy. And the third person used what was the most frequent pronunciation for decades.
The third person says solzenichin. That has never been an an accepted pronunciation. The third person does come closest to a correct pronunciation, the only one who doesn’t jumble the letters, but they all got it wrong.
@@StamfordBridge that doesn't address what I said. That's how Americans heard his name for decades. To expect us to suddenly adjust to proper Russian is unfair. It took me years to say a loose approximation of Beijing. It took not as long to say Kiev rather than like the chicken dish. And pronunciation has a history of forgiveness on Jeopardy. But, without warning, not this time. And I know of the Gulag Archipelago book, Sholzhenitsyn wrote. And yes, I had to look up how to spell his name.
@@thomthom6268 I take your point, but I was addressing what you said. What you said can apply perhaps to the zh, and learning to pronounce it like the consonant in the middle of ‘illusion,’ not like a z, but that does not apply to the ts letter, as there was never a tradition of pronouncing that as ch. It should be pronounced the way we say “zz” in “pizza,” but many Americans say ts like a z, pronouncing tsar as zar, undoubtedly influenced by czar. But the third contestant did not say Solzenizin. She said Solzenichin. She’s the closest of the three, but it’s just off.
I’m not saying the issue is simple, as it’s a tough one for a game show to keep consistent rules. If they accept Solzenichin, do they then accept Hegimway, or Flaukner, or Morrosin?
@@StamfordBridge Morrosin is close enough for The Doors [Morrison] but not for The Smiths [Morrissey]. But I think you proved my point. The finer arts of speaking Russian weren't being tested. Knowing Solzhenitsyn was. I don't know who made the call, but I still think Jeopardy should have accepted the first, badly mispronounced, but obviously correct answer. There's only one solginisin I know of. Peace.
@@thomthom6268 The finer art of speaking Russian is, indeed, not being tested, but knowing the author’s name is. If the answer was Hemingway, would they accept Hennigjay? I don’t think so, and that’s about as close as the third contestant got with Solzhenitsyn - and she was the closest.
Again, I can see both sides here, but I am a lot more sympathetic to the judges who have to decide what a correct answer is in all cases and stick to it.
Since they all lost the same number of points, the question had no effect on the outcome of the game.
Is this a joke?
jeopardy and wheel of fortune, discriminate against dyslexic and people on the spectrum...
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POtatO, paTaTO.
😏
No….we were looking for toMATO😂😂😂
What would Alex do? Rest in peace to the greatest jeopardy host ever.
All three had it right enough
I used to be a fan of Jeopardy and never missed it. The new hosts are all right but maybe they should have checked the true pronunciation of the Russian name. I like. Mayim Bialik As an actress and obviously, she is a very intelligent woman, but I do not like her on the game show Jeopardy.
The answer should have been accepted...
The only thing I'm upset by is the fact that Mayim Bialik is still hosting.
I think they got it.
Though I may catch some backlash of my own, I think Ken Jennings should be made The Host of Jeopardy.
Ya think??!? smh The bialik should be kicked off Jeopardy! now. As in, immediately.
@@Kelly-3.14 I think she doesn't look very comfortable in the role. And, at this point, not sure she ever will. Just my impression. She looks kinda awkward. Which means that she probably feels awkward. When a contestant answers (questions(?)) correctly, there's almost always a discernable lag before she credits the response as correct, as if it takes her a few seconds to read and comprehend what's written on her cue sheet. That's a telltale sign of nervousness.
Ken, on the other hand, looks completely natural. Thinks on his feet and delivers seamlessly.
Thanks for the note! 👍
~TD, Boston
Addendum: I just viewed yesterday's episode, and I must admit that she did much better with her response timings. Still kinda robotic, though.
I'm still casting my support for Ken Jennings.
Bialik tries to play smarty pants
@@desPrez188 That definitely is one theory to consider with regard to this particular pronunciation snafu. Note that she never even gave the opportunity/prompt to repeat/retry. Just a quick: "No. Wrong" to all three, before stumbling on it herself.
Its a Russian surname natively spelled in a non-English alphabet. For God's sake, let's be reasonable, eh?
Good note!
~TD
@@Kelly-3.14 In re tonight's episode (5/30/2023):
Since when has the "Cerebellum" not been part of the brain? WTF!!!
Nope jeopardy has always been like this if you pronounce it wrong.
That is some serious Bull Crap!
...THEY SOUNDED EXACTLY THE SAME TO ME.
How long did the host have to practice saying it before she could pronounce it as she did?
Pronunciation Matters. Put that on a t-shirt.
Just don't say pro noun see ay shun
Ridiculous. I read a lot of books with a lot of words I don’t know how to pronounce it and you can’t hear the pronunciation when you read them. I know a lot of words I’ve never heard pronounced. Just remember there’s two ways to say tomato.
Let's call the whole thing off 🎶
Nice 👍
-Who's Daniil Charms?
-Cupboard!
Who cares??? The world is about to literally burn at human hands and you lot argue about the pronunciation of a silly name!!! 😮😮😮😮
Well if the name was say Johnson and they pronounced it Johnston (with a t) they wouldnt have been allowed to claim it as correct !
This show is not a spelling game show. As long as a player pronounces the name near correctly, he/she should be credited.
This is ridiculous! Mispronouncing an obscure name shouldn't cost any of them point, especially when the host couldn't even pronounce the name.
As a man, I can confirm that Hannah is a man.
Yes she's very pretty 🤓
that's a dumb loss. it's a foreign name and Americans lack many sounds in other languages. just doesnt seem fair
I thought it was Orwell.
Me: soldier - nickson
Host: Sholjanitshin
😂😂😂😂
What??!! They all new but all said it incorrectly 😩
This kind of silliness is what brings an otherwise good show into disrepute. It just makes _Jeopardy_ look bad.
I put on a wig and they wouldn't let me play on jeopardy!!
The last girl was almost DEAD ON! That was really hot mess. If you asked 5000 Americans to pronounce it, you would get 5000 different pronunciations! I was around when he was banished to Siberia and his name was said by news reporters all the time. The way it was pronounced the
Cancel.
When the real challenge is to pronounce the name correctly .
I'll take who gives a crap
Mariska is so much better than the man that is on there. She delivers perfectly.
Never mind the technicalities. This sounds like a really solid book!
This pseudo intellectual show has become ridiculous. It’s a game show, first word “game”. Accept the correct answer as the host mispronounce the name. Ridiculous!
So bogus sometimes.
You say po--tay-to, I say po-tah-to.
Pfft, I'd have said Ayn Rand.
They did allow Hannah to say “ex partate” instead of the correct answer “ex parte”
In other news, it's Encyclop[ay]dia, not Encyclop[ee]dia
Is that ay as in ī? Or ay as in ā? Encyclopedia. Oh. That's accepted as a correct spelling. So I guess pee is acceptable.
Everyone mispronounces "Nabokov" because of Sting.
Oh I thought they were talking about a completely different person until the presenter pronounced the name correctly!
Yeah, but she didn't pronounce I correctly either.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 What was wrong in host's pronounciation exactly?
@@alexsilent5603 It's Sol zhe NEET sn, not NIT. The o is pronounced like the O in Olga. I mean it's ludicrous to nit pick when you louse it up yourself, right? And no, I don't speak Russian, but I read his books, and since I'm 61, I've heard him and heard him talked about countless times back in the day. But you can confirm it for your self. She's just a dope. She makes lots of errors like this. Ken doesn't. He does his homework. Anyway, big fail here for Jeopardy.
@@alexsilent5603 Солжéницын, на конце Ын
@@kaleriashin8306 Это бред, услышать разницу между "ци" и "цы" практически невозможно. Сравни "цинга" и "цыган" для примера.
Bialik is probably one of the worst hosts out there. Takes eternity to rule on most answers, and really messes up the flow.
The first woman was far away enough to be wrong the other 2 were close enough imo especially the last woman
CNN. Clean up your own maligned house
It would’ve been cool to see them all walk away after that bull!
Am I the only one who genuinely thought it was Hitler
If this happens again I'll say please work on not putting these type of clues cause people really didn't like what they did
If they didn’t say it right then they were wrong.
Everyone mispronounced it. None are Russians. They knew the correct answer.
This is what happens when your married to Sheldon for so long, you want everything spot on.
😂😂
It's actually pronounced "Soles on sneakers then."
WTH Jeopardy???
close the border finish the wall
Time for Jeopardy to end!
Alex is gone, what’s the point?
That’s the name of the game folks!
"Soul-zeh-neat-zin" is how I learned it 😏
And it's pronounced "jee-aw-par-dee"
The mispronunciation of someone’s name is literally calling them by a different name. Therefore ❌
Jeopardy being petty...
All three got it correct. How can jeopardy be that ignorant? It’s jeopardy for crying out loud and they should KNOW that all three were going for that Author.
Mayim did not mispronounce it, the rules of the show must be applied or we won't have a proper game. The second contestant was very close.
Jeopardy, once again, going all out troll.
Alex would have gave it to them.
They all butchered the name, the last one coming closest to getting it. I can understand Jeopardy declining all three, otherwise it opens up all kinds of slippery slopes on half-right names. Still, this is a tough one and I can see why there’s some fuss over this.
It's especially egregious since School Marm got it wrong as well. It's a dumb call since everyone knows the first contestant correctly identified the author. It's a knowledge contest, not an elocution exercise.
Потому что она произнесла тоже не правильно, я как русскоговорящая это говорю. Правильно : Солжéницын
@@kaleriashin8306 Хочешь сказать что ударение на букву Е???
@@kaleriashin8306 Вы мне отвечаете? Я думаю, что вы не поняли то, что я сказал. И между прочим, это Солжен*И*цын.
Jeopardy never accepts mispronounced answers. Like me saying the new york GeeAnts.
That’s what the first girl said. Silly
It's hard to do because as infants we lose the ability to hear subtle sound differences in other languages and cannot reproduce them without practice and even then it's nearly impossible. Arnold messes things up after 50 years ... Letters do not communicate information, not sound.
Jeopardy is one of the most elitist, snobbish games ever to run too long on television. The answer was correct. The mispronunciation was understandable to everyone but the “high brow “ judges.
They should all lose!!!
Are people actually upset about this? Jeopardy dings people on pronunciation all the time. It's their game, they make the rules
Not even the host pronounced it correctly. It’s tricky though.
This isnt scrabbel but NAMES SHOULD BE NOT INCLUDED
Sure, it's a tough name, but you should be able to pronounce it if you're smart enough to be a Jeopardy contestant. Jeopardy did nothing wrong!
Even the smartest people in history haven't spoken dozens of languages.
Names don't have to be pronounced as if by native speakers. Some languages utilize sounds that cannot even be reproduced by non-native speakers. Moreover, pronunciation isn't unchanging even within a single language, and more than one pronunciation may be common within the same language and at the same time. As an Alabamian, I guarantee that pronunciation of even a seemingly straightforward surname like Biden by me will differ noticeably from its pronunciation by everyone north of the Ohio River. That doesn't make anyone more or less correct.
BS!!! Miss u ALEX
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that most if not all the words we call names have meanings and definitions of their own
I agree like everybody mispronounced it they all lose the same amount of money. No harm, no foul really.
Is Hannah a Harry? 🤔🤣
Who the hell agaf? It's just JEAPORDY, a GD game show! Ain't the end of the world! 🤣😂
Tom ah toe Tom eh toe
So glad they brought Juveria back because of this. Mayim ruined it and she even pronounced it wrong. I hope someone tells these contestants how to pronounce it because Mayim is a terrible host and she didn’t pronounce it correctly.
Without seeing a single episode after Trebek passed, I didn't know Blossom from the 80s has her own show on Jeopardy until just now. Times sure change for the worse don't they.
I also didn't care much for the way she smugly said her own pronunciation, as if it were correct vs wrong like the others. She said it and kind of "poofed up" her shoulders, nodded and physically twisted her head firmly with the most non genuine smile I've EVER seen as if to say "yep that's right you idiots, my real name is Karen and I know more than you about everything. I AM SATAN I mean ALEX TREBEK!!" like she _was pretending_ to be Alex Trebek on some crazy SNL skit. Shame on you Blossom or whatever your real name is. Shame. I think Blossoms human spirit is destroyed so the question itself was quite fitting in the end.