Nicholas ([info]nwhyte) wrote,
@ 2005-10-23 21:17:00
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Current mood: appalled
Entry tags:depressing ignorance

What group invaded the British Isles from France about a thousand years ago, and in what year?
Answers here.

(Hat-tip [info]coalescent)


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[info]alese
2005-10-23 08:08 pm UTC (link)
thank you for making me laugh. a lot.

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[info]pwilkinson
2005-10-23 08:15 pm UTC (link)
One thing I couldn't make out was the setting in which the questions were asked. A university, certainly - but in which country? While the writer obviously felt it was a question his students should be able to answer, a number of the background details felt far more like an American university than a British one.

Though seeing that I've seen similar reports in the past where the respondents were definitely British and of a comparable supposed academic standard, I'm not going to push this point very hard.

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[info]thetensor
2005-10-24 01:02 am UTC (link)
It's an American university on the west coast.

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[info]elmyra
2005-10-23 09:40 pm UTC (link)
I would pretend to be surprised but I'm not. So instead I shall be amused.

Then again, I was the sort of kid who would have known which two European languages are not part of the Indo-European linguistic family.

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[info]del_c
2005-10-23 10:35 pm UTC (link)
Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian, for eccentric values of "two"?

I'd have mentioned Basque, but it looked sort of funny including it on its lonesome among all those Finno-Ugric cousins.

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[info]nwhyte
2005-10-24 03:06 am UTC (link)
In fairness, the question was "name two languages" not "name the two languages".

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