Ben Zimmer on Jeopardy
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"Jersey City man to compete on Jeopardy", Hudson Reporter 6/29/30:
Ben Zimmer, a linguist and language columnist from Jersey City, will compete on Jeopardy! on June 30 at 7 p.m. on WABC-TV.
June 30, 2014 @ 6:51 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Contests
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"Jersey City man to compete on Jeopardy", Hudson Reporter 6/29/30:
Ben Zimmer, a linguist and language columnist from Jersey City, will compete on Jeopardy! on June 30 at 7 p.m. on WABC-TV.
June 30, 2014 @ 6:51 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Contests
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Adam Funk said,
June 30, 2014 @ 7:09 am
Woot!
I guess there will be a serious conflict of interest, however, if one of the questions hinges on something prescriptive. ;-)
Dick Margulis said,
June 30, 2014 @ 8:10 am
Cite man indeed.
Bruce said,
June 30, 2014 @ 8:06 pm
Retroactive good luck!
Ben, did you have to spend weeks studying?
I can't get Jeopardy on my TV so I'm off to JBoard.tv to look up the result in the discussion forum. It'll be on J Archive soon too.
David Donnell said,
July 1, 2014 @ 3:16 am
The Zimmer family on Family Feud is what I'm looking forward to: Ben, Barry, Doug, Aviva, David & Betty Zimmer–battling wits with those 100 previously-polled idiots!
Jason said,
July 1, 2014 @ 5:37 am
@Adam Funk
"I guess there will be a serious conflict of interest, however, if one of the questions hinges on something prescriptive. ;-)"
I've never seen such a question on Jeopardy. Some of the questions on "English on "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader", on the other hand, make me want to put a sledgehammer through the wall.
richardelguru said,
July 1, 2014 @ 6:59 am
Always better than being in jeopardy
G Jones said,
July 1, 2014 @ 7:52 am
http://www.video.tt/watch_video.php?v=cFa3H6TwH
zafrom said,
July 1, 2014 @ 4:41 pm
Gee: Thx (wow Ben!)
Casey said,
July 4, 2014 @ 3:47 am
Very cool!
Graeme said,
July 4, 2014 @ 6:06 am
Gee I'd heard academic salaries in the US had declined, but…
Seriously and no offence – I write as a foreigner. Is Jeopardy (or the US) that big that it's local news if a local appears on it?
mollymooly said,
July 6, 2014 @ 12:49 pm
@Graeme: Local newspapers can be very local. UK locals carry similar stories.
KeithB said,
July 7, 2014 @ 9:24 am
David Donnel:
Why no love for Carl?
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/blog/the-loom/
Amy said,
July 24, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
He's quoted in Time magazine as saying "But there's an awful lot of people who are very interested…" This is grammatically incorrect. It should be "There are…" He's a linguist and should know better.