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[scriver]

My lil' boy has made a nest and tent out of his new wagon that he got for his birthday. He is napping in it on the porch.

Be careful. One moment's lapse of watch and suddenly he'll be forcing the Colorado on his way to Oregon

[lemon10]

Went to the store today and saw a $1700 dollar laptop with a integrated graphics card. I know that graphics cards are expensive right now, but seriously?
Ugh, you really get ripped off if you don't know what goes into a good computer. (And yes, obviously many people have use cases that don't need a good graphics card, but if you are shelling out 1700 bucks for a computer a proper one should be included in that price point anyways).


Also, you know the word gaol, which is obviously pronounced gaol and means a prison? Well, no, as I learned today thanks to a character in Elden ring its just flat out pronounced the same as the word jail because they are actually the same word except gaol is british.

[Rose]

The new integrated cards are actually pretty good. I have one in my new laptop.

[EuchreJack]

Well, a good laptop should have BOTH an integrated graphics card and a more advanced graphics card.  Sometimes computer games don't like the more advanced graphics cards.  But yeah, just an integrated graphics card sounds like some manufacturer is trying to scam some customers.

[ChairmanPoo]

Well, a good laptop should have BOTH an integrated graphics card and a more advanced graphics card.  Sometimes computer games don't like the more advanced graphics cards.  But yeah, just an integrated graphics card sounds like some manufacturer is trying to scam some customers.

Uh, no?

A laptop is for more things than gaming (let alone 3d gaming). To boot, very portable laptops (ultrabooks) are specially pricey, and seldom have nonintegrated graphics cards. Those that do tend to be pricier and somewhat heavier (not a lot these days, it used to be a whole fucking lot). So, not a scam.

[Akura]

Also, you know the word gaol, which is obviously pronounced gaol and means a prison? Well, no, as I learned today thanks to a character in Elden ring its just flat out pronounced the same as the word jail because they are actually the same word except gaol is british.

I learned this years ago from American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns, which is set in the late 19th century.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One scene has the police put Alice in lockup because of one of her psychotic episodes. Notably, they do this for her own protection. They even leave the cell door open so she can walk right out once she recovers. One of them even comments that a girl like her doesn't deserve to be in gaol.

[LordBaal]

A laptop at that price is a ripoff for other things than not having a dedicated video card, but that would be one of them sure, unless it has other perks that justify the price.

[scriver]

G is often pronounced J

Except in the case of gif, in which it is very much pronounced G

[Putnam]

i pronounce "gif" like "jif" because it immediately looked like "gib", a word I was already familiar with, which is pronounced the same as "jib", as it's short for "giblet", which is, in fact, pronounced "jiblet"

[JoshuaFH]

You know, I just wondered today, why is "It is" abbreviated to "It's" but "Is it" not abbreviated to "is't"?

[Eric Blank]

It's though if your names Gavin Free, id'n't

[Egan_BW]

I don't think that people generally drop the i in 'is it' while they do in 'it is'. So it's just written the way that people speak it.

[pisskop]

Ill settle for people learning when to throw the apostrophe into it's wordage

[Frumple]

i pronounce "gif" like "jif" because it immediately looked like "gib", a word I was already familiar with, which is pronounced the same as "jib", as it's short for "giblet", which is, in fact, pronounced "jiblet"

Except when it isn't

I've heard giblet pronounced like it's spelled plenty often. Similarly most of the time I've heard gib pronounced, it's not been the jib (which is unsurprising, considering the harder sound fits the action much better).

... also jib is an entire different word, so.

[None]

it wouldn't be right if they were joopy jrotesque junky jross giblets, now would it?

I like the cut of your gib, Frumple.