Social Entropy, Where Hip-Hop Lives [Giant Bomb]

Inquisitor

My girlfriend, who I love to bits, has a terrible of habit of photographing her food and my food before we eat it. And then hanging out in the restaurant after mulling over what instagram filer to apply to it.

I am really going to miss this girl. I am, I truly am. But man I am not going to miss that little ritual one teeny-tiny bit.

Inquisitor

Forums freaking out for anyone else? randomly log outs?

Speed Racer

Now that everyone has their own personal handheld film studio and international distribution infrastructure everyone presumes that every random piece of minutiae is worth broadcasting to the world

And then we have special systems in place that directly quantify how socially valuable whatever dumb crap you just posted was

Speed Racer

See also the reaction buttons on this forum

Huntera

speaking of being alone I got my room assignment for my university's dorms I'm staying in again next semester

and woo I got a single! that means I get a couch instead of a roommate!

-Tal

https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/484228692810276864

kamiya...

Speed Racer

Kamiya knows what's up

Radius

boycott platinum games

Speed Racer

Choosy moms choose .gif

Huntera

Does the hard G sound exist in Japanese?

ChicoBlue

Goku

Huntera

ChicoBlue wrote: »

Goku

that solves that mystery, great job team, catch you next week

-Tal

Doesn't the fact that you have to spell it jif for people to even know what you're saying tip you off that it's a completely ludicrous pronunciation

Speed Racer

-Tal wrote: »

Doesn't the fact that you have to spell it jif for people to even know what you're saying tip you off that it's a completely ludicrous pronunciation

Is giraffe a completely ridiculous pronunciation

Inquisitor

Hard G exists but terminal Fs do not, so it would either be giffu or jiffu, I guess.

My dictionary lists jiffu before giffu, for what that is worth.

Inquisitor

Speed Racer wrote: »

-Tal wrote: »

Doesn't the fact that you have to spell it jif for people to even know what you're saying tip you off that it's a completely ludicrous pronunciation

Is giraffe a completely ridiculous pronunciation

Yes!

But English is full of those. I mean, the fact that a word spelled g i r a f f e is pronounced ji-raff is well...yeah. English.

Speed Racer

Written and spoken language (side note language has a hard AND a soft G) do not match up perfectly and the glyph G represents a multitude of phonemes

One of which is a j sound

Such as in ".gif "

Stilts

Huntera wrote: »

Does the hard G sound exist in Japanese?

Yes, it does.

"Gojira"

EDIT: I got ghosted so badly.

Huntera

Let's be honest here

if any animal deserves its name to be pronounced ridiculously it's a giraffe, those fukkers are weird

Etchwarts

It seems like whenever I go to work either something amazing happens on the internet or something terrible happens on the internet, with no gray areas

Today was a "something terrible" kind of day, it looks like

Radius

It's pronounced that way because there was no word pronounced ji-raff, the guy who named giraffes could pronounce it however he wanted!

When that dude made gifs the Peanut Butter company already had dibs on a word pronounced "jif"

-Tal

No but giraffe is a bad spelling

Destroy the hard g, just use j

Inquisitor

Speed Racer wrote: »

Written and spoken language (side note language has a hard AND a soft G) do not match up perfectly and the glyph G represents a multitude of phonemes

One of which is a j sound

Such as in ".gif "

Usage trumps prescribed pronunciations so I feel very comfortable saying that the g in .gif is a hard g.

Speed Racer

I'll destroy your hard g

Also tal did you know that we have the same first name

Unless I guess you used a pseudonym for that bombcast email

Luke is my middle name that I generally go by

-Tal

The letter g stands for graphics not jraphics

Speed Racer

Inquisitor wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

Written and spoken language (side note language has a hard AND a soft G) do not match up perfectly and the glyph G represents a multitude of phonemes

One of which is a j sound

Such as in ".gif "

Usage trumps prescribed pronunciations so I feel very comfortable saying that the g in .gif is a hard g.

And I am equally comfortable saying the opposite thing for the same reason!

NEOLOGISMS: what even the fuck are we doing

Stilts

Speed Racer wrote: »

I'll destroy your hard g

Also tal did you know that we have the same first name

Unless I guess you used a pseudonym for that bombcast email

Luke is my middle name that I generally go by

WHAT?!

Speed Racer

-Tal wrote: »

The letter g stands for graphics not jraphics

The letter g stands for gif

Speed Racer

The gif image format

Inquisitor

But oh man if prescribed pronounciations were correct oh good god I would have a field day tearing apart people for the dumbest shit.

"oh you said the e in forte? For something you are good at? Well moron guess what the word has a french root so you better drop that damn E unless you are talking about making shit louder which is an Italian root. Get on my level."

Speed Racer

Stilts wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

I'll destroy your hard g

Also tal did you know that we have the same first name

Unless I guess you used a pseudonym for that bombcast email

Luke is my middle name that I generally go by

WHAT?!

My grandfather's name was Philip Lukegord

Because he was from the rough and tumble days when people called each other by their last names he was generally known as Luke

I was named Philip Luke and called Luke as a reference to him

Radius

-Tal wrote: »

The letter g stands for graphics not jraphics

I am alright with pronouncing gifs of giraffes as jifs now, oddly enough.

Inquisitor

And from now on all terrific things are scary.

You know I think I can get on board this prescribed definition thing speed.

Speed Racer

I don't know how im being any more prescriptivist than anyone else

Inquisitor

But I am still going to pronounce croissant with a hard t at the end just to piss of my girlfriend.

I butcher french on purpose every chance I get around her.

Radius

Stilts wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

I'll destroy your hard g

Also tal did you know that we have the same first name

Unless I guess you used a pseudonym for that bombcast email

Luke is my middle name that I generally go by

WHAT?!

And you call yourself Speed's friend.

Inquisitor

Speed Racer wrote: »

I don't know how im being any more prescriptivist than anyone else

It is too late now speed you have opened the flood gates. Cleave is now joining things together.

Speed Racer

As a dumb insensitive American it is really fun to say the word croissant with an over exaggerated French accent

CWOSSAUWN

ChicoBlue

Parl ez vooz la frankayzee, mon amy?

Radius

Sometimes, when I get bored at work, I will just start reading nearby writing in a horrible jacque cousteau accent