No one on the show got it right and I didn't get it in the appropriate time limit either. The answer was...

"When translated, the full name of this major league baseball team gets you a double redundancy."

Pretty simple really. I can't believe I didn't get it right away.

(10-17-2015 07:10 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  No one on the show got it right and I didn't get it in the appropriate time limit either. The answer was...

"When translated, the full name of this major league baseball team gets you a double redundancy."

Pretty simple really. I can't believe I didn't get it right away.

The Big A

The (los) Angeles (Angels) I was lucky to think of it right away as it would have taken awhile to go through all 30 teams.

(10-17-2015 07:51 PM)bobreinhold1 Wrote:  The (los) Angeles (Angels) I was lucky to think of it right away as it would have taken awhile to go through all 30 teams.

Repeated words, for sure ... but wouldn't that be just a single redundancy?

Guess they had one for the and another for Angels.

right. the teams official name is

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

The the Angels Angels

(10-17-2015 08:55 PM)MemOwl Wrote:  right. the teams official name is

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

The the Angels Angels

so if the los angeles angels of anaheim had a hatch pepper as a mascot, would he be a triple redundancy?

(10-17-2015 10:26 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(10-17-2015 08:55 PM)MemOwl Wrote:  right. the teams official name is

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

The the Angels Angels

so if the los angeles angels of anaheim had a hatch pepper as a mascot, would he be a triple redundancy?

On occasion the MLB teams wear jerseys with the team name in Spanish. Sometimes it's mildly silly, since "Astros" for example is the same in both languages, and the prefixing of "Los" hardly constitutes translation. Sometimes it would seem altogether unnecessary, since "Padres" is already a Spanish word. Do the Angels' Spanish jerseys says "Los Angeles"? Or perhaps "Angeles"?

(10-19-2015 03:59 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(10-17-2015 10:26 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(10-17-2015 08:55 PM)MemOwl Wrote:  right. the teams official name is

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

The the Angels Angels

so if the los angeles angels of anaheim had a hatch pepper as a mascot, would he be a triple redundancy?

On occasion the MLB teams wear jerseys with the team name in Spanish. Sometimes it's mildly silly, since "Astros" for example is the same in both languages, and the prefixing of "Los" hardly constitutes translation. Sometimes it would seem altogether unnecessary, since "Padres" is already a Spanish word. Do the Angels' Spanish jerseys says "Los Angeles"? Or perhaps "Angeles"?

The NBA does this too, and the presence of "Los" or "El" in front of a team name reflects not a literal translation but what teams are actually called by Spanish-speaking fans.

(10-19-2015 07:18 PM)Seventyniner Wrote:  

(10-19-2015 03:59 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(10-17-2015 10:26 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(10-17-2015 08:55 PM)MemOwl Wrote:  right. the teams official name is

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

The the Angels Angels

so if the los angeles angels of anaheim had a hatch pepper as a mascot, would he be a triple redundancy?

On occasion the MLB teams wear jerseys with the team name in Spanish. Sometimes it's mildly silly, since "Astros" for example is the same in both languages, and the prefixing of "Los" hardly constitutes translation. Sometimes it would seem altogether unnecessary, since "Padres" is already a Spanish word. Do the Angels' Spanish jerseys says "Los Angeles"? Or perhaps "Angeles"?

The NBA does this too, and the presence of "Los" or "El" in front of a team name reflects not a literal translation but what teams are actually called by Spanish-speaking fans.

The doesn't make it any less silly.* After all, the Astros are called "the Astros" by English-speaking fans, but they don't put "The" on the jersey. The current practice seems to do little more than say "Hey, check this out: the Spanish word for 'the' is 'los'..." As a marker of cultural pluralism, that's pretty weak sauce.

Then again, if actual cultural appreciation were what mattered, rather than the appearance of it, we wouldn't have Cinco de Mayo.

*After typing this, I realized that I could have just said "The fact that the NBA does it doesn't make it any less silly." That would have been an inarguable truism.

I think the article may be more or less a required attachment to the noun in some languages. When learning Spanish and German, for example, I had to learn the article with every list of nouns. Der Platz, die Milch, la escuela, el mapa, etc. Then: Voy a la escuela. I am not a linguist, of course. :)

Edit:

Also: Voy al mercado. The article merges with the preposition.

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(10-22-2015 05:35 PM)Caelligh Wrote:  I think the article may be more or less a required attachment to the noun in some languages. When learning Spanish and German, for example, I had to learn the article with every list of nouns. Der Platz, die Milch, la escuela, el mapa, etc. Then: Voy a la escuela. I am not a linguist, of course. :)

Edit:

Also: Voy al mercado. The article merges with the preposition.

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I think you have to learn the article in order to properly learn the gender of the noun.

(10-17-2015 07:51 PM)bobreinhold1 Wrote:  The (los) Angeles (Angels) I was lucky to think of it right away as it would have taken awhile to go through all 30 teams.

What about Philadelphia Phillies?

Not a double redundancy but a redundancy itself. I could have slipped up and put that.