Lol one year I spent two weeks at wsop playing only their one table sngs and I heard this so much.
Spending your whole life in pedo glasses is a puzzling choice.
Is that a combover? Can never trust a man with a combover. They’re basically comfortable just blatantly lying to your face.
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Is he consistent in his spelling of “Hernn Cortz?” Don’t think I’ve ever seen it spelled that way before (other than his TOC).
I can’t get past the fact that the authors of History of the World From a Gambler’s Perspective think David and Goliath were actual historical people.
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There are tons of examples of this on Youtube - typically with respect to movie reviews. There are a few guys that have series on the worst movies of all time, where they just mercilessly mock the movie (with clips). Every so often someone files a DMCA take down and threatens to litigate. The reviewers always win, but it’s a pain for them to deal with.
So long as your excerpts are short enough and you’re adding commentary/criticism you’ll be fine. For example, you can’t do a Mystery Theater 3000 review without permission nor could you just post excerpts without more.
Uh ever read the bible bro?
MM is the Malcolm Gladwell of history.
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Malcolm Gladwell can write in complete sentences at least
…and probably has better lawyers.
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French seems way more logical to me than English.
Do they have French spelling bees? I’ve never heard of such a thing? I think they have some sort of grammar competition that is similar.
I’d be very surprised if Spanish or German had them. Apparently in both the spelling is so obvious that a contest would be silly. In fact, in American spelling bees, kids supposedly crush words of German origin because they all follow very straightforward rules.
I know it’s cool to hate on Gladwell and he’s not nearly as good as most think, but comparing him to MM is like comparing a very good high school basketball player to some scrub at the Special Olympics. Neither is anywhere near Michael Jordan, but the difference between them is massive.
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The French origin words are like that too. If you’ve never studied French, you hear a word like “portefeuille” and think “omg, that’s insane!” But then after I lived in France and learned French to a reasonable level I realized that the French words in the spelling bees are all pretty basic.
Gonna get back to it. I’m 100 pages in and going strong but this is getting a little tedious. A lot of this is just regurgitated wikipedia articles followed by like 2 sentences of analysis.
There are no spelling bees in German, but German is not completely phonemic.
The most striking morphophonemic feature of German is final instrument devoicing. The final consonant in a word is always voiceless. So Rat (council) and Rad (wheel) are pronounced the same way („raht“ would be a close approximation for most English speakers), but the plural forms differ (Räte and Räder). So Rad is spelled with a „d“, because that is the sound of the plural.
Most Germans do not even notice the difference between voices and voiceless consonants in word-final position. That is the reason you might hear a Gernan say „I‘m going to bet“ even though he isn’t in a casino, but close to his bed.
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That would be a joke word at the Scripps national spelling bee. I remember while I was watching it one year, one of the commentators (who won it once I think) said that the French words were the toughest of all the big Euro languages.
Here’s and example of one I remember vividly: The kid was given the word doyen. He gave exactly what I thought was the correct answer and spelled it doyenne with little hesitation. Basically fist pumped afterwords only to hear he got it wrong.
Of course, if the bee itself were in French, he gets it 100% of the time from hearing a sentence with it (which will reveal gender).
Lol I forgot all about their SNG strategy book that doesn’t even mention ICM, which is basically 95% of SNG strategy.
https://www.amazon.com/Sit-Go-Strategy-Collin-Moshman/dp/1880685396
At the time I thought maybe it was deliberate, to not ruin the games or something. Now I realize they’re just morons.
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Nah, the winning word was “feuilleton” like 5 years ago. Which is even slightly easier than the word I posted. Granted, some are a bit tougher, but a lot are just basic French words even in the final rounds.
Edit: wtf, the winning word was “marocain” in 2017?? That’s just Moroccan in French.