Argh!
The city is Харків, or as the Russians spell it Харьков. If you're going to spell it Kharkiv, you must pronounce it 'Harkyoo [ˈxɑrkiw] Alex, not Har-kuv. Or possibly 'Harkeef [ˈxɑrkiːf] if you're using an eastern pronunciation. It's Ukrainian, not Russian.
For that matter, if you're using the Russian spelling of Kharkov, it's still not Kar-kuv; it's 'Harkoff [ˈxarʲkəf].
That H is really a voiceless velar fricative that we don't have as an initial consonant in English (think the CH in loch or Bach). But H is closer than K. And -uv is just wrong.
Stop saying you speak Russian, Alex.
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At 3:14 PM, January 23, 2013
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->We cringed when Alex ad-libbed in response to a contestant's erroneous reply of Kenya as the most populous nation in Africa that it's not far from Nigeria. Really? It's all the way across the continent.
It's closer than ... errrrr .... Russia is.
The clue was for the most populous nation IN AFRICA. Which kind leaves Russia out...
And tonight the question "What is a right triangle?" (also this former math teacher's solution!) in response to the clue about the 6-8-10 triangle was called wrong, just because they were looking for "scalene"? It didn't make any difference to the final outcome, but I wish someone had called the contestant's answer as correct and credited her before Final Jeopardy just on general principles! The clue crew really needs to get its act together.
That didn't look like a right triangle, though. There didn't seem to be a right angle. I don't remember it well enough to swear to it, though.
Also, wasn't saying Russia was a possible answer, just observing (sarcastically) that "close" is relative...
The right angle was at the top. It HAS to be a right triangle because 6**2 + 8**2 = 10**2 (Pythagorean Theorem).
But does the Pythagorean theorem say that if the sides are in such a ratio, the triangle MUST be a right triangle? I know that scalene triangles have the same ration for areas of parallelograms drawn on them - squares are just a special case. Does 6/8/10 HAVE to be right? Probably it does ... Math is hard...
If a**2 + b**2 = c**2, then yes, for the purposes of the triangle shown in the Jeopardy! clue, it HAS to be a right triangle.
There are many more Pythagorean triples besides those of the 3-4-5 ratio -- e.g., 5-12-13, 8-15-17, 20-21-29 (and their multiples), etc.
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