The American way of saying Achilles is wrong, too, so this is huge bs. Are they even legally allowed to not accept his answer just because his pronounciation doesn't match theirs?
Every time I watch this show I always think to myself "I could win this" but I'm pretty sure if I did get on the show I would choke lol
he obviously isn't familiar with the story of achilles if he can't even pronounce it correctly. therefore he still didn't know what the answer was even if it was literally spelled out for him.
Like I said, the English pronounciation is wrong if you compare it to the native tongue. Seems wrong to say his answer is incorrect when their own pronounciation is wrong as well. They're drawing the line but both are not the correct way of pronounciating the name. That's like someone pronounciating the German name(just to illustrate, works with every language) "Michael Schumacher", which sounds like Me-scha-el in German, in a "wrong" manner, for example Me-kael, and then the show saying his answer is wrong because the English way to spell is My-kel. Just seems completely wrong for the show to say the guy's answer is wrong when their own language is not capable of pronounciating the name in the correct, native way.
Regardless, he didn't pronounce it correctly by anyone's pronunciation. Perhaps had he pronounced it Asheel, he would have had a valid argument if they had not accepted it.
I think you are correct. It's stupid to favor a bastardized American pronunciation over some other creative pronunciation. I think the kid was robbed.
there's a difference between a cultural pronunciation and just being plain wrong. no one says, man i hurt my a-chill-us tendon the other day. his pronunciation indicates that he isn't familiar with who achilles is and just took a shot at pronouncing it for the first time
