The Big Bang Theory (TV Show) Bugbear (Nerd Alert)
March 31, 2014 at 10:02 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2014 at 10:09 am by ManMachine.)
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
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
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)