I don't blame this guy - I blame our poor education system instead.
This guy is proof that it's way too easy to get into college. He didn't even know how to pronounce "Achilles." We need to have fewer people in college, not more.
It's also pathetic that the host of the news program, as well as 75% of the audience, thinks that the rules should be waived so this guy can be declared a winner.
That being said, I do praise him for being a good sport about it.
The Pro Golf tour shows that performance under pressure is difficult for many. Human Nature.
I challenged Pat Sajak to use “Fort Michilimackinac”. LOL
And he won, by the way, so he must have been doing something right.
And he won, by the way, so he must have been doing something right.
With a quota system in place, people like Julian Batts, get a free ride into universities. Here's information about the racist Hudson & Holland Scholars Program at Indiana University that allows for the unqualified, including Batts, to take up space at educational institutions, denying opportunities for those with actual merit.
He did better than most special ed students would have.
I saw this the other night and I think he got cheated.
I’m sure the folks back at Indiana U. were thrilled that he was wearing their sweatshirt.
>> don’t blame this guy - I blame our poor education system instead.
This guy is proof that it’s way too easy to get into college. <<
In college and can’t pronounce “Achilles?”
You left out “too easy for SOME PEOPLE to get into college.”
EEO college recruits are like EEO hires — the thumb on the scale hurts the candidate, the institution and society.
Would YOU want a doctor who didn’t really pass his boards but instead was given + points for skin color? Same for lawyer?
Obviously I saw that episode and used it as an example of what “diversity” programs produce. In this case this guy was embarrassed in front of MILLIONS of people.
Give him a break! He was using the Ebonic pronunciation........
Obviously, he had never heard the name pronounced before. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it can be amusing.
I once had a young fellow call me, trying to sell season tickets to the symphony. I asked him what were some of the pieces or composers on the program for the season. He made a valiant attempt at pronouncing (phonetically): Choppin’, Beat Hoven, and Back. Sadly, many young folks have never heard the music or been exposed to culture outside their neighborhood.
He might be able to pronounce it just fine but not when he’s looking at it. I’ve got a few words like that, something about the spelling make my mouth say “that can’t be how that’s pronounced”. “Mignon” is like that, I love filet mignon but if I order it I have to make sure to not look at the menu seeing the word confuses me, could say it all day without looking at it, just don’t look at it. And that’s without a bunch of TV camera looking at me and thousands of dollars on the line.
Sucks to be stupid. Now he has clearly demonstrated to the world how he got into college.
I probably read at least a book per week and have done so for about 50 years. I can be having a conversation and a word will pop into my head. I have read this word countless times and it just seems natural using it, but lo and behold when I start to speak it I realize I’m stumbling because I have never spoken it before.
I watched the vid. What an embarrassment. Ignorance aplenty, yet I feel sorry for the guy, maybe he will learn something in college that he should have learned in elementary school.
Yeah, definitely a failure of the ed. system. I hope he recovers.
On the spot dice spin? WTH? (I watched the video at the link)
Interesting you point out “Achilles”. Because I listen to audio books, and when listening to all the Ender’s Game books, they switch around their narrators, and one of them pronounces the name “a-sheel”, rather than “ack-ill-ees” (sorry I don’t have proper notation there). So at first, we’re wondering who this new character is, until we figure out it is just a different pronunciation.