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So my late stepfather, Gary, he’s been dead for 12 years. Late doesn’t really sound. But, um. he was the first and only person I’ve ever seen to diligently maintain and insist others maintain the practices of in one’s cell phone contacts, the people who should be contacted in case of emergency, whatever that might be, to prepend the acronym ICE, capital ICE, in case of emergency, I. Um. And this should be a long forgotten thing. Uh. But due to the magic of the way that Apple services work.. I, for an extended period of time, but not very often, so like, very intermittently, maybe, like, once every 18 months on average. I think it happened twice, two or three times.. I don’t remember why my contacts were synced with Gary’s. That is going back too far. But for whatever reason we had, shared contacts, I don’t know if that was the practice, back then. Um. But.. I swear to you, uh, for some unknown reason without provocation that I could ever figure out, my iCloud contacts, uh, would change back to having the fucking ice acronym in the beginning, which, as you can probably imagine,. Um, in any sort of modern contact system, just really fucks things up. Uh It’s very cute and earnest because if anything, for like the sheer amount of contacts that he. did that for, like, uh. all of his stepchildren, and by stepchildren, I don’t even know what the term is. He married. Yeah, I guess it is stepchildren. Adult, stepchildren. It was more than ten. More than 10 contacts had ice the beginning. And. Um. You know, now I think you can designate one emergency contact, I think.. on iOS now. But, um.. Yeah, I guess here’s the.. It’s just funny. That’s the whole story. I. There are a lot of things I feel like, generally, if you wanted to know um. My selfish lament regarding my stepfather’s death, the most self centered one, is that, like.. I was a very like, tolerant kid and stuff and found him very amusing when a lot of people found him really irritating. But like,. I was almost to the age, almost there, where I would have really started to appreciate, all of his particular eccentricities to go on about that, but… And one of the things, like, you know, basically at what I’m trying to say is,.. regardless of what caused it,, the few times that that happened were somehow really nice, like being haunted by fucking., like the way that you discover such a thing, by the way, is like you’re I’m searching for a contact in a search bar that I, you know, like my sister and I don’t see it. Like, it doesn’t appear. Searching for, uh, you know, Amy. It’s not on the fucking list. Uh. And then you go through the whole thing and see that, actually acronym. But yeah, Being Haunted by Gary’s.. You know, I’ve never looked it up. I’m not going to, actually. I hope it’s just something that he did.

Wipr 2 App Store Review

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Delta Force App Store Review

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Note: I did not play a single frame of this game and uninstalled it immediately upon realizing that it (at least as yet) does not have controller support.

I’d been eagerly anticipating the idea of this game only the second ever flavor of first person shooter (after the CoDs) to the iOS/iPadOS platform for how many years now? Legitimately, I remember being a younger person when I first “preordered” the app download. If disappointment wasn’t such a hallmark of using life on said platforms throughout their whole history, the fact that Delta Force was published with zero(?) controller support whatsoever would be genuinely offensive.

Especially in this title’s case, what confuses me most is… I can’t figure out why you’d bother publishing it at all on iOS/iPadOS - and we all know it can be some bother if you knew it’d be touch-only.

disport

Verb

  1. occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; “The play amused the ladies”
    • Synonyms
      • amuse
      • divert
    • Less specific
      • entertain
    • Related
      • diversion
      • recreation
      • amusing
      • amusive
      • diverting
      • entertainment
      • amusement
  2. play boisterously; “The children frolicked in the garden”; “the gamboling lambs in the meadows”; “The toddlers romped in the playroom”
    • Synonyms
      • frolic
      • lark
      • rollick
      • skylark
      • sport
      • cavort
      • gambol
      • frisk
      • romp
      • run around
      • lark about
    • Less specific
      • play
    • Related
      • play
      • frolic
      • romp
      • gambol
      • caper
      • romper
      • play
      • frolic
      • romp
      • gambol
      • caper
      • sport
      • athletics
      • escapade
      • lark
      • play
      • frolic
      • romp
      • gambol
      • caper

verb

  1. archaic humorous enjoy oneself unrestrainedly; frolic

a painting of ladies disporting themselves by a lake | they disport as they please

noun

  1. archaic diversion from work or serious matters; recreation or amusement

the King and all his Court were met for solace and disport

archaic a pastime, game, or sport

the display of these pageants and disports which enlivened the repast

Origin

late Middle English : from Old French desporter , from des- away + porter carry (from Latin portare )

grift

Via Wikitionary:

American criminal underworld slang, 1906 (noun), 1915 (verb), alteration of graft (“corruption, illicit profit through corrupt means, bribe, one’s occupation”), alteration perhaps influenced by similar sounding words, e.g. drift, etc., probably ultimately from Middle Dutch graft (“digging, ditch, canal, trench”) (modern Dutch gracht), related to Dutch graven (“to dig”), English grave (“to dig”).[1][2][3]

IPA(key): /ɥɚɪft/

Rhymes: -ÉŞft

grift (plural grifts)

  1. (US, slang) A confidence game or swindle. [from 1906]quotations ▼Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deception

    Hey, what’s the grift? What are you trying to pull?

grift (third-person singular simple present grifts, present participle grifting, simple past and past participle grifted)

  1. (transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game. [from early 20th c.]
  2. (intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money illegally. [from early 20th c.]
  3. (intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.

show ▼±to obtain (money) illegally, as by con game

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “grift”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Eric Partridge (1949) A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co., page 307
  3. ^ Word Origins…And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone, Anatoly Liberman (2009), p. 32

Inherited from Old Swedish _gript_f, _gripter_m. Either a verbal noun related to gräva, or influenced by Latin crypta.

Compare origin of krypta, kryptisk, krypto, grotta, grotesk, grav, gräva, gruva.

griftc

  1. (archaic except in some compounds) a graveSynonym: grav
nominative genitive
singular indefinite grift grifts
definite griften griftens
plural indefinite grifter grifters
definite grifterna grifternas

Source

==English==

===Etymology===
American criminal underworld slang, 1906 (noun), 1915 (verb), alteration of {{dbt|notext=1|en|graft|t1=corruption, illicit profit through corrupt means, bribe, one's occupation}}, alteration perhaps influenced by similar sounding words, e.g. {{m|en|drift}}, etc., probably ultimately from {{der|en|dum|graft|t=digging, ditch, canal, trench}} (modern {{cog|nl|gracht}}), related to {{cog|nl|graven|t=to dig}}, {{cog|en|grave|t=to dig}}.<ref>{{R:Online Etymology Dictionary}}</ref><ref>{{R:Partridge Underworld|page=307}}</ref><ref>''Word Origins...And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone'', Anatoly Liberman (2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=sMiRc-JFIfMC&pg=PA32&dq=grift p. 32]</ref>

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ɥɚɪft/}}
* {{audio|en|En-au-grift.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|ÉŞft|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|US|slang}} A [[confidence game]] or [[swindle]]. {{defdate|from 1906}}
#: {{syn|en|Thesaurus:deception}}
#: {{ux|en|Hey, what's the '''grift'''? What are you trying to pull?}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2022|author=[[w:Paul J. McAuley|Paul McAuley]]|title=Beyond the Burn Line|publisher=Gollancz|page=172|passage=‘Sounds like he’s trying to stretch out his '''grift''' for as long as possible,’ Gentle said. ‘Taking as much from his followers as he can before it falls apart.’}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|grifter}}

====Translations====
{{trans-see|con game}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive|US|slang}} To obtain illegally, as by [[con game]]. {{defdate|from early 20th c.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|US|slang}} To obtain money illegally. {{defdate|from early 20th c.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|US|slang}} To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.

====Translations====
{{trans-top|to obtain (money) illegally, as by con game}}
* Danish: {{t|da|svindle}}
* German: {{t+|de|erschwindeln}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|kicsal}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|wyłudzać|impf}}, {{t+|pl|wyłudzić|pf}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===References===
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==Swedish==

===Etymology===
{{inh+|sv|gmq-osw|gript|g=f}}, {{m|gmq-osw|gripter|g=m}}. Either a verbal noun related to {{m|sv|gräva}}, or influenced by {{cog|la|crypta}}.

Compare origin of {{m|sv|[[krypta]], [[kryptisk]], [[krypto]], [[grotta]], [[grotesk]], [[grav]], [[gräva]], [[gruva]]}}.

===Noun===
{{sv-noun|c}}

# {{lb|sv|archaic|_|except in some compounds}} a [[grave]]
#: {{syn|sv|grav}}

====Declension====
{{sv-infl-noun-c-er}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|sv|griftefrid}}
* {{l|sv|griftetal}}
* {{l|sv|gĂĽnggrift}}

===References===
* {{R:svenska.se|so}}
* {{R:svenska.se|saol}}
* {{R:svenska.se|saob}}
* {{R:runeberg.org|svetym|0288.html grift}}