"That's B-E-E"
Thirteen-year-old Katharine Close from NJ just won the National Spelling Bee with the word "ursprache."
I was standing in the lobby of the School of Journalism, where there is a huge-screen tv that must be permanently tuned to CNN, when I saw the report. I'm not even joking, I totally teared up when they showed her response to her correct answer. I'm a sucker for an emotional winning moment. The runner-up lost on the word "weltschmerz". I thought it was interesting that the last two words were german. I totally would have won that spelling bee. "That's B-E-E." (from Spellbound)
posted by sarahanne @ 11:29 AM
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Yeah, I'm a fellow dork. Normally TV-less, I went to a friend's house and hopped between the Office and the Bee. I didn't get a single word correct until the last two. DEUTSCH MACHT SPASS!
Actually, I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't even know about the championship until the report about the winner. Had I known that...
1) "...I would have ordered a much bigger sandwich."
2) I would have stayed home from work and thrown a killer party
3) I would have DVR-ed it
Das stimmt! Deutsch macht spass, und ich mag die buchstaben!
(p.s. i'm totally psyched that there were 4 episodes of "the Office" last week. we haven't watched them yet because we like to make it a family activity.)
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