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Jason, it’s “lit’l” so that they can trademark it. “Lil” is too much of a common colloquialism to trademark. Also, I agree with you about the matrix vs CRT displays.
On a totally unrelated note… since this is your article, the comments to which I believe you read, and a site of which you have part ownership, I want to give you a tip to make the end user experience better.
I’ve shared this before in other comment sections, but I am going to try to distill this down in its own comment.
Yesterday, I ventured over to The (orange slash) Drive, a site I had never visited until then.
The content here at the Autopian is superior in almost every way. And that’s why I subscribe. They seem to have more reviews, which may be useful if I ever buy another car. Otherwise, there is no reason I will spend any eyeball time over there.
But, and this is my punctum as some of you are fond to write, their comments sections have a feature this site needs to embrace. The ability to sort the comments in a solid chronological order. (They have a third option, “Best,” but I don’t know how that’s determined. And I would never pick that anyway.)
It is a constant annoyance to me to read an article, have something clever (to me, anyway) pop into my head, post it and then see somebody beat me to the punch hours earlier. I’m particularly susceptible to this phenomenon as I live on the West Coast of this vast nation.
It seems that it depends on how many pages of comments there are how the comments here get sorted, but bottom line is it’s sometimes incredibly janky.
Please, please, please. Run this around your Slack. If you folks pull this off, I will upgrade from Velour. That’s not much of a carrot. I get it. And if you don’t, I won’t. (And I get that’s not much of a stick, either.)
However, I think there would be much rejoicing throughout the Autopian world if this upgrade was incorporated into, what is otherwise and despite, my favorite site to read.
Best to you all.
Contracting bastards working under contract. Perhaps, if female, simultaneously having contractions.
Completely different pronunciations… lil vs lit-ul
One syllable vs. two.
Offen vs Off-ten
Neether vs Nither
I had a girlfriend in college who was getting a masters in linguistics. But I was the cunning one.
> Mechanically separated chicken
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I get it. It’s also just kind of lazy. If you’re going to make art, making good art is my preference.
That stupid manifold thing ruined fast & furious for me right from the very start, then the floor literally fell out.
Why and how does it contract to “li’l” or “lit’l” vs “li’e” or “lit’e”?
I worked in IT with developers for so long that this kind of attention to detail on admittedly minor things is just a given. Are you sure you aren’t a developer, Torch?
He is! He wrote programs to generate little random avatars.
God bless all the children with the lit’l voice in their head that whispers “Wait, I maybe should check the spelling on that.” Heroes DO walk among us!
Since you showed the PET computer, whatever happened to your series about the “worst cars” that really weren’t the worst? You went to all that trouble programming the computer to generate a random page number for you…
It randomly picked a page with a Mercury, which caused a conflict with Mercury Mondays, and the computer crashed.
Torch’s recurring series never recur early nor late. Torch’s recurring series recur precisely when they are meant to.
People who want an easier time trademarking a name is who. Nearly all corporate bizarro spellings boil down to that.
I remember helping polish my high school’s gymnasium floor, and the last layer we put down was a can of something called Kleen Up Solvent.
Beat me to it! I’m sure Jason already knew this, being a professional creative with a business interest in IP rights, but wanted to say something Torchian.
Brandontheweirdo
No, it’s right there in the name. He’s THE weirdo, not just A weirdo. The definite article.
Peter, next time send it to him using a nixie tube font. See if he notices.
We’re about to end up with a top shot with an OLED showing Morse code.
Is this a good place to point out that although some of the later chiclet-keyboard 2001 Series PETs did indeed come with green CRTs just like the models with full-sized keyboards, the one up top looks early enough that it really should be shown with bluish-white characters instead?
This version has green phosphorus text. And, it is really bothering me that he didn’t just take a photo of this text on the screen and use it for the call out. Or at least use the green in black font used by the computer.
My 2010, pre-screen Focus has that sort of expanded segment setup on its entertainment display. I get a kick out of the jankiness of spelled out song titles as it uses the lower case.
Noted, now which font LCD? As it could do either depending on overlay.
I like this rule.
See the little R? That’s why.