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| Topic | Which video game consoles had a keyboard or keyboard type controller? |
| dainkinkaide 04/23/21 10:43:56 PM #11 | Dedicated consoles with official keyboards: Gamecube PS2 Dreamcast N64 (Japan only) Famicom (Japan only) Dedicated consoles with (at least partial) USB (or wireless) keyboard support in games: PS3 PS4 Xbox One Switch Computers with cartridge support: TI-99/4A Atari's 8-bit computer line (400, 800, 600XL, 800XL, 1200XL (poorly), etc.) ZX Spectrum (with the ZX Interface 2) VIC-20 Commodore 64 This isn't a comprehensive list, just what I can think of off the top of my head. --- The problem with the internet today is that it's filled with entire generations that did not grow up with the great wisdom of the Wyld Stallyns. |
| Topic | What's the first thing you think of when seeing the acronym "SSG"? |
| dainkinkaide 03/24/21 9:52:26 PM #24 | Standard-Sized Goat --- The problem with the internet today is that it's filled with entire generations that did not grow up with the great wisdom of the Wyld Stallyns. |
| Topic | That wrong spelling/word use in the current poll bugging me :( |
| dainkinkaide 02/24/21 11:37:15 PM #72 | SunWuKung420 posted... Hard vs soft "U" grammar.OK, first of all, in English we use "long" and "short" to denote vowel sound differences, not "hard" and "soft". Secondly, though your articles are correct, they are correct for the wrong reason. Consider the following: A U-Turn. An underpass. An Uber. The sound of the vowel doesn't matter. What matters is that in "U-Turn", the "U" is pronounced as the letter "U", which begins with a consonantal sound (it rhymes with "you"), so "a" is the correct indefinite article. Meanwhile, though "underpass" and "Uber" begin with different sounds (an open-mid back unrounded vowel and a close back rounded vowel, respectively), they are both vowel sounds, so the use of "an" is appropriate. As we've been trying to tell you, whether we use "a" or "an" before a given word has absolutely nothing to do with how the word is written, and absolutely everything to do with how the word sounds. So, in summation, when pronounced as an initialism, "NES" is pronounced thusly in IPA: /nis/. This begins with a vowel sound. Therefore, one would say "an NES". --- The problem with the internet today is that it's filled with entire generations that did not grow up with the great wisdom of the Wyld Stallyns. |
| Topic | That wrong spelling/word use in the current poll bugging me :( |
| dainkinkaide 02/24/21 10:52:28 PM #69 | SunWuKung420 posted... A hot grill, not an hot grill.Strictly speaking, in h-dropping dialects, it would actually be "an hot grill". Also, would you say "a U-turn", or "an U-turn"? --- The problem with the internet today is that it's filled with entire generations that did not grow up with the great wisdom of the Wyld Stallyns. |
| Topic | That wrong spelling/word use in the current poll bugging me :( |
| dainkinkaide 02/21/21 3:23:10 PM #14 | SunWuKung420 posted... You always use "a" if the following word is a consonant especially a "N".You use "a" if the following sound is consonantal*. When saying "NES" (as an initialism, not an acronym), the first sound is an open mid-front unrounded vowel, i.e. //. *"Consonantal" rather than "consonant" is actually important here, because both "w" and consonantal "y" are just nearly elided vowel sounds that act as consonants. --- The problem with the internet today is that it's filled with entire generations that did not grow up with the great wisdom of the Wyld Stallyns. |
| Topic | Which came first, the chicken, or the egg? |
| dainkinkaide 02/21/21 1:42:50 PM #9 | Gr8M8 posted... This statement, though entirely factual, is irrelevant to the question asked. If the question were "What came first", then the options provided could be considered mere suggestions for answers (though this would be an extremely loose reading), but the use of "which" as a question word requires that the answer be chosen from the options provided in the question itself. As for the question that was actually asked in the topic title, it is heavily implied (though not explicit) that the "egg" referred to is that of a chicken, i.e. a "chicken egg", but this now asks the question of how one defines a "chicken egg". Is it an egg laid by a chicken (in which case the chicken came first) or is it an egg from which a chicken hatches (in which case the egg came first)? The definition of "chicken" is, of course, not in question, as we all know what a chicken is: a man with feathers. --- The problem with the internet today is that it's filled with entire generations that did not grow up with the great wisdom of the Wyld Stallyns. |
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