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Post by JCEurovision on Aug 6, 2016 2:39:53 GMT -5
Earlier, I watched a 4-hour broadcast of the Rio 2016 Olympics and it was quite a treat for me because I am not only a fan of Disney and Eurovision, but also an Olympics watcher as well. But, what is odd in the opening is the order of the Parade of Nations because, as obvious, Greece entered first and Brazil entered last. The other countries, instead of English, as what NBC intended to do, they followed in Brazilian Portuguese. Why are there complexities in the parade order?
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Post by ausgameshowfan on Aug 6, 2016 2:47:53 GMT -5
It must be a thing every Olympics that the order is Greece, other countries in the host's language order and last is the host country itself.
EDIT: I came across an article on news.com.au about the parade of nations and a part of it said this
"International Olympic Committee rules require that the opening ceremony’s official language is that of the host country."
So it is a thing that the host's country's language determines the order.
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Post by JCEurovision on Aug 6, 2016 3:10:34 GMT -5
Then why did they follow the rules when they have "Ilhas" or "Republica" in the name of the country?
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Post by ausgameshowfan on Aug 6, 2016 3:44:53 GMT -5
Then why did they follow the rules when they have "Ilhas" or "Republica" in the name of the country? I have got very little idea on this. Maybe they didn't count "Ilhas" or "Republica" in the countries names when figuring out the order. |
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Post by FinalAnswer19 on Aug 6, 2016 23:46:38 GMT -5
I think it's more of a grammatical thing for the language itself. Just like in English, when you are alphabetizing a list and the word "the" starts off a few of the items, you don't alphabetize it by "the," you alphabetize it by the first letter of the *next* word.
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) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
