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Say gift. Now what you're going to do next is leave out the T but enunciate the gif part the same way. Fuck you jif people!
I'll tell the agile fragile fugitive gin-drinking giraffes eating ginger ginseng to imagine gingerly using their digits to engineer a geological survey of the gist of your comment. They ate too much gingerbread and now have gingivitis, so the margins of those attracted to religion aren't as rigid as the original origins of those of that region and we have to remain vigilant lest magic supersede logic, which of course would be terrible for legislation of the legions.
That was beautiful
That's how you do it, boys and jirls
Great.
However none of those have the g-i-f sequence and have the j sound.
They do have g-i-t sequences. So it suggests that the f makes the g pronounced like a g not a j.
Intact, you could use examples like "digit" to argue the versioning software should be pronounced jit.
But git is literally a word (and it's pronounced with a hard G).
https://initialcommit.com/blog/How-Did-Git-Get-Its-Name
Yeh, it's obviously a nonsense argument.
Linus even suggested 2 backronyms for it, none of which have the j sound.
And there is precedence for git being pronounced git not jit.
So the criteria for pronunciation is other words that have the exact same letters? What does that mean for the pronunciation of "women"?
Women Vs world? Women Vs Woo? Women Vs work? Women Vs wonder?
Cause the "wom" sequence would be...
Women Vs Womb?
Women Vs Wombat?
The arguement is obviously nonsense.
It's going into syntax of words to get pronunciation, instead the acronym/name.
Which is funny, because that's exactly what's happening in the gif/jif argument.
Not sure what you're trying to say, but not a single one of those words pronounce the "wo" like it is in "women."
It seems to be closest to the i in fish -- hence the fun alternate spelling of photi
Ghoti is better (using the "gh" in "enough"), and yep.
Womb and women are pronounced the same (well, except the ending).
Unless it's a local dialect thing where "women" is pronounced "wimin"?
Nobody I've ever heard pronounces it "woo-min", only "wimmin." Definitely not a local dialect.
Well, if you heard me, I pronounce "women" like "womb".
Maybe I have the local dialect.
Are you from PNW? I think I remember a video from reddit where someone said woo-min and a commenter said they're from there and say it like that.
Say gigantic. Now what you're going to do next is stop with your ANTICs and enunciate the gig the same way.
Gin like Gin and Tonic. Use Gin instead next time. Don't get me wrong I will forever call it gif(t) however to help you with your position using a 3 letter word may help.
You may be explaining how superficial the Gift argument is by making it a much longer thing to take off but figured if you ever use it in a real way or argument you may want this one in your back pocket as well.
I'm firmly in the hard-g crew, but I respect what you did here
Ironic since gig is already a word and everyone agrees it's pronounced the other way.
The whole thing is funny when you look at the full phrase too. Graphical Interchange Format -- it's got both a hard g and a soft g. You could call a gif an image. You could also call it a graphic.
At the end of the day, there really isn't an answer, and there never will be. It's a fun debate to fuck around with though
There is a G sound and there is a J sound.
There is no need to invent a distinction between "hard" and "soft" G. A "soft G" is just a J.
G can make a hard G sound or a soft G sound, the soft G is identical to J.
It's still a soft G sound though, because the letter is G.
No, it's just a G that is making a J sound.