Thursday, October 20, 2005
100% of FACT: Wheel of Fortune
The Welsh version of the popular gameshow ‘Wheel of Fortune’ features no vowels, but allows contestants to buy an ‘L’ for 500 points.
On the other hand, such is the complexity of the language, a typical edition of ‘Wheel of Fortune’ on Chinese Television (top prize - three dogs and a chicken) lasts for 18 hours, and usually ends with one of the contestants dying of exhaustion.
On the other hand, such is the complexity of the language, a typical edition of ‘Wheel of Fortune’ on Chinese Television (top prize - three dogs and a chicken) lasts for 18 hours, and usually ends with one of the contestants dying of exhaustion.
# posted by Alistair Coleman @ 12:59 am 
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Brings to mind the Alphabet Swap of 1996, when Croatia's Minister of Culture, Lszlxq Gryplxz airlifted three tons of consonants to Ethiopia in return for a consignment of vowels organised by their Education Secretay, Mrs. Oauo Eoiaiu. Gryplxz said at the time, "At last I can call my son Colin".
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