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The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
March 31, 2014 at 10:02 am
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I really like the Big Bang Theory, it's one of my favourite shows, but...
It is nagging at the back of my nerdy mind that in the Second Season episode 'The Codpiece Topology' where the guys visit a renaissance fair Sheldon is heard to say,
"It was rife with historical inaccuracies... "
A few minutes later he then says,
"That was not fifteenth century soap, my God those people need to learn you can’t just put “ye olde” in front of anything and expect to get away with it."
This really bugs me. The 'Y' used in 'Ye' is not a 'Y' but the Middle English letter 'thorn',
![[Image: EME_ye.svg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F8%2F8f%2FEME_ye.svg)
which is pronounced 'th'.
So Sheldon, being the smarty pants of the group and ought to know better, should have pronounced it "the" not "yee" (this goes for anyone who pronounces it as "yee" [ji] and not 'the'). He was wrong.
I feel much better now I got that off my chest.
MM
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RE: The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
March 31, 2014 at 10:04 am
(March 31, 2014 at 10:02 am)ManMachine Wrote: I really like the Big Bang Theory, it's one of my favourite shows, but...
It is nagging at the back of my nerdy mind that in the Second Season episode 'The Codpiece Topology' where the guys visit a renaissance fair Sheldon is heard to say,
"It was rife with historical inaccuracies... "
A few minutes later he then says,
"That was not fifteenth century soap, my God those people need to learn you can’t just put “ye olde” in front of anything and expect to get away with it."
This really bugs me. The 'Y' used in 'Ye' is not a 'Y' but the Middle English letter 'thorn',
which is pronounced 'th'.
So Sheldon, being the smarty pants of the group and ought to know better, should have pronounced it "the" not "yee" (this goes for anyone who pronounces it as "yee" [ji] and not 'the'). He was wrong.
I feel much better now I got that off my chest.
MM
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RE: The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
March 31, 2014 at 10:07 am
I choose to think that Sheldon knew the correct way Ye was pronounced but used that phrase to have a go at the fair.
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RE: The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
March 31, 2014 at 10:08 am
Of course the writers are going to make mistakes. They're fallible.
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RE: The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
March 31, 2014 at 10:12 am
Nice. I can definitely relate.
This is the same reason I cannot enjoy the movie 'Gravity.' I feel like you ask just one physicist. Just one. And George Clooney is still alive.
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RE: The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
March 31, 2014 at 10:26 am
(March 31, 2014 at 10:07 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: I choose to think that Sheldon knew the correct way Ye was pronounced but used that phrase to have a go at the fair.
I think Sheldon would make a point of highlighting the inaccuracy, or at least give us a direct reference to underline his cleverness over the organisers of the fair.
But, it's off my chest now, I can sleep. 
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RE: The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
March 31, 2014 at 10:34 am
I KNOW!
I rationalize it thusly though: 1. Sheldon quoth the people enacting the renaissance fair, and might be commenting on their lack of old English knowledge by using the wrong pronunciation
2. Sheldon decides that he can only accurately portray the literal writing by spellyng out the characters in a modernized version. Otherwise, it would have simply sounded ðə oʊld, i.e. the same as today.
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RE: The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
April 3, 2014 at 3:20 am
Who knows what really happened @ the time the universe came into being. The big Bang theory is just one attempt @ explanation of what may have happened!
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RE: The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
April 3, 2014 at 3:26 am
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(April 3, 2014 at 3:20 am)hadee41 Wrote: Who knows what really happened @ the time the universe came into being. The big Bang theory is just one attempt @ explanation of what may have happened!
Apart from your post being hilariously off topic... can you succinctly summarize what the evidence for the big bang theory is according to the current scientific consensus, and then add your critique @ the end?
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RE: The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
April 3, 2014 at 3:43 am
I like the BBT (the sitcom) somehow, Sheldon makes me feel alot less weirder about knowing science
As to the real BBT, there was no bang. Where there is no time or space, therefore no air to propagate the sound that would constitute a 'bang'. [/sheldon]
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