We, as players, deserve a higher standard. It has happened and will happen again that players will be undeservedly negged for saying "con-dor-SAY" when the answer on the page is *clearly* "con-DOR-ket." We, as moderators, deserve a higher standard. As a reader last year, I ran across one tossup which consisted of about 50% Irish Gaelic, that had no pronunciation guides. If I'd had any idea what "bean shaidh" was supposed to sound like, the experience for the players I was reading to would have been far less hellish. We, as editors deserve a higher standard. To refer to the tossup above...well, if the editors of the tossup in question had known how to prounounce the damn thing, then words pronounced "ban shey" probably wouldn't have made it into a tossup where the answer was "banshee." To assume that the editors know everything and can fix anything is a dereliction of duty on the part of the authors; and just as much as the editors have a right to complain about the authors, so to moderators have a right to rise up against editors when those editors express that same failing. Edmund <<""1. NO PRONUNCIATION GUIDES AT ALL."" In my experience, if moderators just give best effort and keep rolling everything works out fine. If players have any idea what that Chinese book title was, they'll "translate" from moderator-garble and buzz in anyway.>>
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