By Michelle Rindels
Associated Press
10:10 am | Friday, December 21st, 2012
LAS VEGAS — Miss Venezuela came in third in the Miss Universe contest, a disappointment for the South American nation that has won more crowns in the pageant than any other country besides the U.S.
But Irene Sofia Esser Quintero was the talk of the Internet on Thursday after she attempted to answer a question in English during the pageant’s finals. Her answer was unintelligible at times — one of several examples where the language barrier came to the forefront during the pageant.
MISS VENEZUELA INTERVIEW
Pageant officials provided a professional translator so top-five Miss Venezuela could understand her on-stage interview question: “If you could change one law, what would it be and why?”
Esser was allowed to answer in her native Spanish, but stepped out of her comfort zone and tried her English with this response:
“I think that any leys (laws) there are in Constitution or in life, are already made. I think that we should have, uh, a straight way to go in our similar, or, eh, in our lives as is this. For example, I’m a surfer, and I think that the best wave that I can take is the wave that I wait for it. So please do our only, eh, law that we can do. Thank you, Vegas!”
Bloggers and observers on Twitter seized on the brunette beauty’s comment, with some lampooning her English and calling the answer nonsensical. Others defended her as brave for trying a second language under the glare of the spotlight.
Back home in pageant-crazy Venezuela, which has produced six past titleholders and numerous finalists, her loss was front-page news. An article in the newspaper El Nacional, noted Esser looked quite good, “but an unintelligible answer in the round of questions lost her the crown.”
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