Learned League

Apparently the author of the Rolling Stone article referenced earlier this week plays in LL, and they were assigned 3 for said question.

Heh, hadn’t noticed that, but yeah. I track him along with his friend who also writes for them. I studied their work on the 70s Music ML when I worked on the 60s one and recently playtested the other guy’s “You’re So Vain” 1DS.

Both of them seem to be pretty nice, at least in my dealings with them

I had a strong suspicion that the KMT question would play hard yesterday, but I had the bad luck of facing an opponent with an unambiguously Chinese name.

Three straight matches getting 5 right and yet I went 1-2-0.

i knew i was gonna get relegated from rundle a last season when i got 4 straight 9(6)s and 4 straight ties

That's the A life but I'm punting around in C!

Lol, well put.

barely staying alive seems my style

We can try
To understand
The Learned League’s
Effect on man

Whether you’re a LLama
Or a bad mama jama
Barely stayin’ alive
Stayin’ alive

ah ah ah ah

Tough breaks, continued: my opponent and I both got 4 right, but though my defense cost me the match, it wasn't unreasonable or bad, just rotten luck: they had 50% in science but got the Meitner question right (to which I gave 3) but then they got ~olive branch~ wrong.

Like, I'm on pace to smash my previous best TCA*, but here I am, 4-5-4, and sitting in 16th.

* Yeah, yeah, LL91 is probably due for a course correction sooner or later, but kvetching is part of the fun.

fuckin 7(5)-8(4) losses

Don’t know how I feel about the Midseason Classic.

In general, or this particular one?

In general. I understand there is kind of civic duty to participate, but I don’t, not usually.

I don't really feel any civic duty. I suppose I just treat it as a general knowledge 1DS. I usually participate, but not always.

Oh wow, I came in second in my Rundle for the Midseason Classic!

I just found this interesting trivia blog. Hasn't been updated since lockdown initiation though.

Also, I lost an answered due to one misspelled letter today, ERDLICH instead of ERDRICH. Should I protest or let it go?

you deserved that correct answer

but it's just a fun thing, no protesting

THere now. Convenience link for Scoring Review: https://www.learnedleague.com/thorsten/review.php

I'd let it go.

According to the rules, correct spelling isn't required but "a 'sounds-like' guideline will be used for misspelled answers." "Erdlich" does not sound like "Erdrich."

Granted, Thorsten is sometimes more lenient than the rules, so it wouldn't have surprised me if he *had* accepted "Erdlich." But unless you know that someone else got credit for that spelling, I don't think you have much of a defense.

I agree that it's a fun thing, but there is a protocol in place, so I am going to practice using it this one time.

The number one hit if I Google ERDLICH is Louise ERDRICH! And they do sound alike! The R sound gets buried, and R and L are related letters, as we know from Japanese, if not otherwise.

They are both liquids.

If I were Thorsten, I think it would be difficult to decide what counts as a "sound-alike" spelling. The line isn't always easily drawn.

Anyway, I have just submitted. We will see what he says.

See also how how Algeria is Argelia in Spanish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_consonant

the erdlich horror

the liquid consonant/"r and l sound the same" excuses are a total red herring. what it sounds like doesn't matter. the answer is in writing. all the matters is if he thinks the spelling is close enough. which it might be!

oh i see you're responding to the "sounds like" guideline. that's a silly guideline for a written quiz.

Yes. Hoping so, but I found the rule here: https://www.learnedleague.com/thorsten/therules.php#5a

But then there is also 5a 1.1.

i worked in a minneapolis bookstore in 1995 and when she came in and browsed the 'divorce' section all of us were (very quietly) sad

little did we know

In any case, I also found this, from a certain reference work
xp!

OMG mookie. I was thinking about that too, although I successfully refrained from putting that in my request for review as part of my bonafides.

https://www.bainbridgereview.com/life/erdlich-novel-gets-a-look/

But it doesn't seem he has a rule about Common MIsspellings.

That trivia site is by a well-known though now former-LLer.

Wait, did she finally leave? I guess maybe it’s dicey even talking about it here.

I checked her player page and she's not playing in 91.

Her last post on Facepalm from a few months back is about retiring from LL.

Anyway I really liked Love Medicine back in the day but never got around to reading anything else, maybe because of what mookie mentioned.

Seems like the two biggest Louise Erdrich stans round here are aimurchie and mookieproof.

oh i see you're responding to the "sounds like" guideline. that's a silly guideline for a written quiz.

Strongly disagree. The fact that the quiz is written should not invalidate knowledge gained from hearing rather than reading.

if an answer, when spoken aloud, is the correct answer, then the answer will likely be accepted as correct.