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[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Pan/pang- the g has a well established rule to change the pronunciation of the a? No it doesn't lol. Words are not comparable like that in english, this is another terrible argument.

Examples: lead and lead, read and read, tear and tear, bass and bass, wind and wind. Spelled the exact same way and different pronunciations. Trying to prove how gif is pronounced based on the word gift just proves you haven't thought about this for more than 10 seconds.

There is no grammatical argument for hard g. There is also no grammatical argument for soft g. Once again, g followed by i or e can be either in English. The only thing that should sway this is what the creator intended and straight up told everybody many times.

[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

the ellipses at the end of this is throwing me off lol, like there's something you're implying. so what? what on earth is your point lol - so that's the solution? every monitor and tv should have the ability to rotate 90° to accommodate for the masses' laziness/ignorance/whatever the reason is? and people should get off of their couch and walk up to their TV and manually rotate it depending on the media they are viewing?

all of this that despite the fact that yes, the screen would now be the right orientation, but it still doesn't address the fact that portrait is just inherently the inferior choice for video (unless the video is of a single person standing upright and not moving i guess)

[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

in terms of how people refer to it these days, you may be correct that slightly more are using the hard g. what drives me nuts about the argument though is that the 'hard g' crowd does not have a good argument for it. the "g stands for graphics so it should be a hard g" crowd are immediately proven wrong that that's not how any acronyms work. the "gift" crowd are immediately proven wrong as i just did above.

just be honest with yourselves. the only argument you have is "we just like it better". if you were honest then i wouldn't be able to argue against it.

[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

pan / pang

hat / hate

clam / claim

one letter can and often does completely change pronunciation. i'd give you a good ol' fashion makin fun of, but i actually think you could've gotten there if you would've thought about for a few more seconds. you seem pretty smart. shame you clicked reply too soon.

[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 4 points 10 months ago

Hell yea. Might be my first day of fall movie.

[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

this one also makes me irritated in general when I see it happen and sometimes angry when I find out a special moment was only captured via vertical video. Cell phones are amazing portable devices, not the end means of consuming media.

I have an ultra wide monitor at work and giant TVs in half the rooms in my house. 92% of the media I watch is on a landscape screen and the other 8% I'm pooping

[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 2 points 10 months ago (8 children)

but g followed by i or e very regularly makes a soft g in English (and always makes a soft g in Italian, which is irrelevant I guess but I speak both). you may as well purposely mispronounce giraffe, gelatin, germ, Giorgio, giant, gentle, etc while you're at it since it they don't start with a j.

by english rules it very often is a soft g, but could be hard as well, but the creator has clarified multiple times it is meant to be soft, so why are people fighting it?

[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 3 points 11 months ago

Added a handful of these to the server, thanks for posting. Starting first day of fall until Halloween every year is horror TV & movies for me

 

Man this is refreshing compared to last year's Fields videos

[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 1 points 11 months ago

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Chicago Bears at Buffalo Bills


Time: 1:00pm e/12:00pm c/10:00am p


Location: Highmark Stadium


Weather at kickoff: 71°F Clouds


Previous Season Records: 7-10 | 11-6


Notes/News: ESPN Gamecenter


Stream: Check the Discord Channel


Opposing Community: /r/Bills


Favorite Spread Underdog Over/Under
BUF -2.5 CHI 38.5
Bear down, Bears nation!
[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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Chicago Bears vs Houston Texans


Time: 8:00pm e/7:00pm c/5:00pm


Location: Tom Benson HoF Stadium


Weather at kickoff: 68°F Storms


Previous Season Records: 7-10 | 10-7


Notes/News: ESPN Gamecenter


Favorite Spread Underdog Over/Under
HOU -2 CHI 31.5

Bear down, Bears nation!

 

BEAR DOWN

 

[Adam Jahns] Matt Eberflus said he removed Montez Sweat from a team period today after he made contact with Caleb Williams. It was the second day in a row. Eberflus told Sweat that he would be "sick" if something happened to Williams. Sweat understood. But his rush has been that good at times.

[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AntennaPod is great, I used it for years. I eventually switched to self hosting AudioBookShelf which does audiobooks, ebooks, and podcasts. One main reason was because podcasts more and more yank the old episodes and put them behind a patreon. AudioBookShelf downloads the episodes to your server so you always have them. About 5 months after starting using it another one of my podcasts pulled that stunt and I was super happy to have all of the old episodes still.

[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 13 points 1 year ago

I never understood the boring argument, and I've read it quite a bit online. Every scene has a ton going on.

It starts with a banger wedding outside while the don hears about somebody's daughter being savagely raped. Theres also a short conversation about Fontaine and the movie exec being a dick. Bam, hagen is in Hollywood. You wonder what the family has up their sleeve, bam horse decapitated head in the bed.

Business meeting about drugs, sonny goofs, wonder how that will go - assassination attempt. Hagen held captive. Luca sleeps with the fishes. Don in hospital, another assassination attempt thwarted, scene full of tension the entire time.

Michael decides he's in the business now, they plan the attack, then bam middle of the movie you have an incredibly long tense scene of a drive and dinner that you know is going to end in violence.

I mean all of that is just in the first half of the movie. It's buildup action buildup action repeat. This is not some slow character study alone... It's a master class of character study with plot plot plot.

It's almost ridiculous how much plot there is to be honest. After all of the above there's Carlo abusing Connie and sonny beating the shit out of him. There's Carlo doing it a second time as a trap and sonny getting fucking annihilated by gunfire. Michael escapes to Sicily, gets married, and his wife is murdered in a car bomb meant for him.

The cherry on top is Michael murdering the heads of the other families in one of the best climaxes of all time

Sorry for the rant. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. I just don't understand the boring argument, this is not a slow movie lol

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