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Otto Jespersen, a Common card
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar of the English language.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 176 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Otto Jespersen quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Otto Jespersen card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Steven Mithen describes him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the ______ and twentieth centuries."
Answer
nineteenth. Steven Mithen describes him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." From the Otto Jespersen article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Otto Jespersen. Otto Jespersen 87 · Abel Azcona 84 · List of earthquakes in 2011 81 · Horseshoe bat 78 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Black Death. Black Death 2,100,000 · Flat Earth 850,000 · Horseshoe bat 29,000 · Otto Jespersen 13,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Steven Mithen describes him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Otto Jespersen article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Otto Jespersen
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Otto Jespersen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Laurberg & Gad, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
