07 Feb 2009, 3:57 pm
2ukenkerl wrote:
Well, it DOES illustrate how STUPID that "interview" was! SHE did the same sort of thing.
Except that she was seriously trying to make him look bad. 
Jimmy Kimmel was just playing around. Evan was the straight man surrounded by baffoons. Kimmel's version made a joke about pronouncing the word wrong and asking Evan to spell it, but this version was intended to make the audience sympathize with the right person. It would have been funny, but I was still too pissed off at that CNN bimbo.
I notice that no one posted a comment on either of the Kimmel links. I guess humor only sells when it's nasty.
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07 Feb 2009, 4:11 pm
sbcmetroguy wrote:
...his parents deny he has Asperger's...
Oops. I got caught up and forgot. My general rule is that people who are still alive should have a right to privacy, that if he doesn't want to be our poster boy, he should be left alone. 
Einstein is still fair game.
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07 Feb 2009, 5:23 pm
Tahitiii wrote:
2ukenkerl wrote:
Well, it DOES illustrate how STUPID that "interview" was! SHE did the same sort of thing.
Except that she was seriously trying to make him look bad. Jimmy Kimmel was just playing around. Evan was the straight man surrounded by baffoons. Kimmel's version made a joke about pronouncing the word wrong and asking Evan to spell it, but this version was intended to make the audience sympathize with the right person. It would have been funny, but I was still too pissed off at that CNN bimbo.
I notice that no one posted a comment on either of the Kimmel links. I guess humor only sells when it's nasty.
You're RIGHT! I wasn't really saying anything against Jimmy Kimmel. The one word Kimmel got right DID have him saying.... "Well, I'm going to ASSUME you mean jaundice". And the bumble bee character DID make it all OBVIOUS! HECK, with scripps, the others HELP! They don't simply confirm mistakes, etc...
And Kimmel DID talk about all the other things Evan does, and he didn't ONCE mention Tuna or subway! Kimmel makes a living at poking fun at various things. Reporters are SUPPOSED to simply tell the truth.
07 Feb 2009, 6:27 pm
Tahitiii wrote:
sbcmetroguy wrote:
...his parents deny he has Asperger's...
Oops. I got caught up and forgot. My general rule is that people who are still alive should have a right to privacy, that if he doesn't want to be our poster boy, he should be left alone. Einstein is still fair game.
It was not he who denied it, it was his parents. Perhaps they refuse to seek a diagnosis because they are afraid. People are so afraid of the word "autism" as if it changes something. A diagnosed autistic person is still the same person they were before the diagnosis, there is just a name for it now. But some people seem to think, for whatever reason, that by avoiding a diagnosis, their child will not be autistic.
Still, I agree that people should have the right to privacy. I am a very private person, so I definitely agree with that.
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08 Feb 2009, 3:47 pm
2ukenkerl wrote:
RarePegs wrote:
I was interested to notice how the presenter (or, perhaps, the producer behind the presenter) did not even seem to think it necessary to specify the language of the word SCOMBRIDAE in advance or even to state that it was foreign. Contrast that with the boy, who was immediately trying to establish a contextual framework within which he could proceed to spell the word. By asking if the word was in French, he was probably setting out to confirm or eliminate the spellings DET and DÉ for the suffix, whereas Latin provided a clue to the DAE spelling. He may have said DAY if he had been told that the word was in English. Similarly, he may have wondered if it was an ancient Greek word, beginning SCHOM. There are simply too many variables and the boy had sufficient pattern perception and categorisation to address that issue from the outset. The tv people either did not have that same sense or else they were deliberately testing his categorisation.
You're right. Evan was using tricks and advice that are EVEN on the scripps site ITSELF! He wasn't doing ANYTHING unique or even unusual. To a decent person, one with even half a brain, one that has EVER seen the scripps spelling bee, that "presenter" looked like an IDIOT! Without knowledge of the word, or a root word, spelling that word reliably correct would have been impossible without the info he asked. I'm SHOCKED that most people commenting on his video don't realize that. Frankly, based on how poorly they handled it, I think he did a GREAT job at spelling the word. Nobody is perfect, and he never claimed to be.
08 Feb 2009, 5:54 pm
Greyhound wrote:
2ukenkerl wrote:
RarePegs wrote:
I was interested to notice how the presenter (or, perhaps, the producer behind the presenter) did not even seem to think it necessary to specify the language of the word SCOMBRIDAE in advance or even to state that it was foreign. Contrast that with the boy, who was immediately trying to establish a contextual framework within which he could proceed to spell the word. By asking if the word was in French, he was probably setting out to confirm or eliminate the spellings DET and DÉ for the suffix, whereas Latin provided a clue to the DAE spelling. He may have said DAY if he had been told that the word was in English. Similarly, he may have wondered if it was an ancient Greek word, beginning SCHOM. There are simply too many variables and the boy had sufficient pattern perception and categorisation to address that issue from the outset. The tv people either did not have that same sense or else they were deliberately testing his categorisation.
You're right. Evan was using tricks and advice that are EVEN on the scripps site ITSELF! He wasn't doing ANYTHING unique or even unusual. To a decent person, one with even half a brain, one that has EVER seen the scripps spelling bee, that "presenter" looked like an IDIOT! Without knowledge of the word, or a root word, spelling that word reliably correct would have been impossible without the info he asked. I'm SHOCKED that most people commenting on his video don't realize that. Frankly, based on how poorly they handled it, I think he did a GREAT job at spelling the word. Nobody is perfect, and he never claimed to be.
What don't you understand? I was simply agreeing with squarepegs, and saying that evans did what ANY other person that was from the scripps be, and followed THEIR methods, would do. The "presenter"s crew and all should have KNOWN that! It was a GIVEN! They expected him to spell it with no real info. He came VERY close even with all that against him.
The presenter was either TRYING to make him look bad, or just jumping in without even having seen the website or the contest.
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