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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (5 children)

If it were supposed to be pronounced "jif" it would have been spelled that way.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The creator of the format is documented as having confirmed the pronunciation is "jif", but I don't care. Once he created it and put it into the world, he relinquished his control.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I honestly believe he was just trolling when he said that and he probably giggles to himself everytime someone says (shudder) 'jif'. It's a hard G from graphics so I don't know how else is could be reasonably pronounced.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is why literary analysis created death of the author.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is a jem of a response, but by jeneralizing pronunciations of acronyms only by the way they are spelt, you are opening a jigantic can of worms on etymology and linguistics.

The jist of it is that English is a weird language, jenerally descriptive, and there can be many correct answers to the same pronunciation problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

jigantic

I read that as Jig-antic. I would have to turn it into jygantik for it to sound the same.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and yet we all pronounce it β€œlay-Zer” not β€œlay-Ser”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

The A in amplification and E in emission are pronounced differently too, so the "correct" pronunciation would be "lah-seer".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

So how do you pronounce giraffe?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah and it's giraffe, not jiraffe. See how that gets us nowhere?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jood gob indeed (just kidding, no malice intended)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How do you pronounce github? GIMP? GNU? GPU? Javascript?

Oh Geremy, it's time to jo to the jocery store! We need some jrape gelly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Geoff is a gentle German giant with ginger hair. He's also a germaphobe, though generally he's still a genuine gentleman. You get the gist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Wait they're supposed to be pronounced with J? Except JS obviously I pronounced them all with G

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

GIF is an acronym. Giraffe is not. The Giraffe response has been debunked for decades.

Graphical is a hard G.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Debunked? Its a counterpoint to the fact that it's pronounced that way because it's spelled with a g. If that poor argument wasn't used, the giraffe one wouldn't have to come up. It's not evidence of anything other than that letters can be pronounced in more than one way.

For the graphical thing, imagine pronouncing NASA wrong because of the way aeronautical is pronounce. Or underwater in scuba. World in WHO? The I in AIDS isn't pronounced anything like immunodeficiency.

Your argument doesn't work either.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for providing me all new ways to pronounce things in horribly cursed ways, magic internet man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Also "laser" as lah-seer

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago

The argument holds up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If there’s ever a Giraffe Interchange Format, I’ll pronounce it the same as giraffe. And unlike some people, I’ll be able to tell the two apart.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

In the meantime, there is a Joint Photographics Experts Group. I love me some deep fried jfegs!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, but "GIF" is not etymologically Germanic. πŸ˜‰

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

With the other pronunciation. Some letters have more than one. Your statement is nonsense lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

How do you pronounce ghoti?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

And clearly based on the intense response you win the controversial statement award