In the task where they had to count the seats in the cinema Andy Zaltzman says “one” while he’s talking. That should have been his accepted answer.

  • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Ha! I thought the same thing and looked up the definition and “one”, unlike “three”, has meanings which are not related to the number:

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/moment

    I guess they didn’t want to spend the ten minutes it would take Alex and Andy to have an unskippable grammar nerd cutscene!

    I’m actually not sure if I would’ve called or not to be honest. I guess I’m hindsight the wording of the task would have needed to be more precise (“say anything that can be interpreted as a number”).

      • MeepMorp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        Someone in the YouTube comments did a deep dive and found out it wouldn’t have changed anything. In the worst case for Andy, he would’ve been bumped down to third for the task and still won overall.