How many times are Indians going to win the spellling bee??

[SandEagle]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43255742


"She is the fourth consecutive Indian-American to win the bee and the ninth in the last
13 years..."


got to give it to them Indians, they are smart!

 

[DesiPower]

I dont think anybody really cares about the "science of spelling". IMHO its pretty insignificant with respect to the rest of the education. For Indians it has become a social status I guess, for the rest of the country nobody really cares about it enough to put years of dedicated 200% effort into it.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43255742


"She is the fourth consecutive Indian-American to win the bee and the ninth in the last
13 years..."


got to give it to them Indians, they are smart!

she's hawt.

 

[Blackjack200]

she's hawt.

Is that name pronounced the way I think it is?

 

[SamQuint]

Is that name pronounced the way I think it is?

LOL suck on you? :biggrin:

 

[Saint Nick]

I used to work with an Indian-born American, and he once said that in India, if you got anything below excellent marks (or an A) in school, they made you sit out in the summer heat studying until you got it right.

 

[dank69]

Don't worry, we still retain the texting while driving crown. I bet the extra 'l' in your title was typed while making an illegal u-turn.

 

[AMDZen]

Her parents should be taken off to jail for not feeding her

 

[DesiPower]

I used to work with an Indian-born American, and he once said that in India, if you got anything below excellent marks (or an A) in school, they made you sit out in the summer heat studying until you got it right.

sounds about right, in India there is no excuse for failure, only reasons. Govt does not feed lazy so everyone has to work their asses off to get somewhere in their lives.

 

[darkewaffle]

lol, i don't think she could hold the trophy on her own

 

[SKORPI0]

Watched this last night, could hardly spell any of the words they were giving.
You're right, the parents should be punished for not feeding her. 14 yr old, tall and thin. Not sure how many times she has tried winning this.

 

[SandEagle]

I used to work with an Indian-born American, and he once said that in India, if you got anything below excellent marks (or an A) in school, they made you sit out in the summer heat studying until you got it right.

i fail to see how this is punishment? don't they live in that summer heat all day long anyway?

 

[PokerGuy]

they are smart!

Uh, I hardly think spelling equates to being smart. I think it equates more to wanting to spend a great deal of time learning how to spell words, a skill that most of us find quite useless. Kind of like scrabble or chess.

 

[TecHNooB]

what a waste of brain power.

 

[SearchMaster]

I heard this morning that she's spent the last few months reading the dictionary...twice.

Good luck to her, hopefully she can translate her dedication and intelligence to something that will make her some money or positively impact others' lives.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Watched this last night, could hardly spell any of the words they were giving.
You're right, the parents should be punished for not feeding her. 14 yr old, tall and thin. Not sure how many times she has tried winning this.

stop turning this into a babe thread!

 

[sactoking]

The more important question is 'When are people going to realize that spelling bees are not worth caring about?'

 

[Printer Bandit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06JUfkiMOVc

 

[moshquerade]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06JUfkiMOVc

Holy shit, gets right back up and spells the word correctly. :thumbsup:


I like this one too. He threw the judges for a loop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hwM6A27jlw

 

[Patranus]

So she was American not Indian.

Thread fail.

 

[HomerJS]

Why was this on ESPN and not The Game Show Network??

 

[The_Dude8]

So she was American not Indian.

Thread fail.

She's an ABCD.

 

[NFS4]

Are spelling bees even really relevant anymore considering that most "text" these days is completed via smartphone/computer/tablet?

That $40,000 prize would be better spent on young kids helping out in research/science instead of reading the fucking dictionary.

 

[SandEagle]

She's an ABCD.

only FOBs call people ABCD

 

[dainthomas]

Are spelling bees even really relevant anymore considering that most "text" these days is completed via smartphone/computer/tablet?

That $40,000 prize would be better spent on young kids helping out in research/science instead of reading the fucking dictionary.

You can end up making yourself look pretty retarded relying on spellcheck or autocorrect.

That said, I don't think any of those words are real.