1 yr. ago • 98%

Jiv me a break

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I will face Jod and walk backward into hell before I say "jiff"

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- Clearly you're not a choosy mom.
  
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  Plebe moms choose ghif.
  
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- How do you say gin or giraffe? Or literally the letter G?
  
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  I pronounce them like Gin and Giraffe
  
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Like the G in "gigantic".

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- And "gigolo."
  
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- Fun random fact: the portmanteau word "ginormous" dates to WWII RAF slang.
  
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  I did not realise until now that "ginormous" is a portmanteau
  
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- and the letter 'G'
  
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oh that's easy, it's "dot gif"

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Yiff

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- Um, I don't know how to tell you, but that means a wiiiildly different thing. 🤣
  
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Why do people have to pronounced it in any way? Why not say G-I-F? I've been saying it like that since before I knew about the huge debate💀

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- Because that's 3 syllables instead of 1. Ain't nobody got time for that!
  
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  RE-RE-RE-REEEEEMMMIIIXXX
  
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- Cuz the devs explicitly named it after the peanut butter and even gave it a catchphrase to make sure you pronounced it correctly. It was a marketing campaign. “Choosy developers choose gif”.
  
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  How do you pronounce JIF, then? (That's the JPEG Interchange Format.)
  
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  It's a real shame (for them) they don't dictate how the English language works
  
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Jraphic interface format really sounds right /s

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- Let me just get my Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus ready /s
  
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- Right, because Gs are never pronounced with a "J" sound, and acronyms are never pronounced differently than their full terms. Sound logic there; well done. Never mind any of these:
  
  NASA- National Aeronautics Space Uhdministration
  
  NATO- North Ayy-tlantic Treaty Organization
  
  LASER- Light Ayy-mplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
  
  SCUBA- Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus
  
  FOMO- Fear ohhf missing ohht
  
  ASAP- Ayys soon ayys possible
  
  POC- People ohhf solor
  
  PIN- Personal id-entification number
  
  BOGO- Buy ohhn get ohhn
  
  POTUS- President ohhf the Uhhnited States
  
  YOLO- You only live ohhnce
  
  AWOL- Ayy-bsent without awfficial leave
  
  ICE- Eyemmigration and Sustoms Enforcement
  
  DARE- Drug Ayybuse Resistance Education
  
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  NASA - National Ah-ronautics and Space Uh-dministration
  
  LASER - Light Ay-mplification by Ztimulated Eh-mission of Radiation
  
  ICE - Eye-mmigration and Sustoms -nforcement (E is silent)
  
  DARE - Drug Ay-buse Resistance -ducation (ditto)
  
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- For this logic to be consistent you would have to pronounce JPEG as "jayfeg"
  
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  There's no logic being applied. This is just sports mentality in tech. Like spaces vs. tabs, Emacs vs. vim, Python vs. R, or one of countless others.
  
  But could you imagine if you created a digital standard used by billions everyday and then most people refused to pronounce the name you gave it? Same energy given off by the "anti pronoun" crowd.
  
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- National Aeronautics and Space Uhdministration /s
  
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  I think it's because words that end with sa, have that uh sound. Like Medusa, salsa, mesa, mimosa
  
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- Light aimplification by ztimulated emission of radiation just has a nice ring to it /s
  
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  I believe that's "uhmission"
  
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It's actually pronounced yif

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I was devastated to learn the creators intended it to be pronounced "jif" like the peanut butter brand

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- Yeah, because it's a jraphical interface format.
  
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  So do you say j-feg? Because the p stands for photographic
  
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  One of the common nonsensical arguments heard. What's the next one?
  
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  Giraffical
  
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- One of the few times I don't care what the creator says, he was wrong.
  
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  And yet your mind knows it's not possible for him to be wrong since he named it.
  
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- Me too. I feel like no one pronounced it jif before they said that, and now we have to have an eternal debate over it
  
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  That’s literally how every programmer pronounced it before it became an Internet sensation. It had a marketing campaign to “sell” the format because that’s how new standards were created initially. They explicitly chose to name it after the peanut butter because it allowed them to give it a catchy phrase to sell it even better “choosy developers choose gif”.
  
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- I say dʒɪf, but the way the person who invented it wants you to say it is a really dumb basis for how something is pronounced, imo.
  
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I take the third route and pronounce it Heef, as in Spanish

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spoiler

asdfasdfsadfasfasdf

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- We all know it's pronounced "gif".
  
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  Yeah with the g like in garage.
  
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  spoiler
  
  asdfasdfsadfasfasdf
  
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whichever way pisses off the most people

watch me pronounce it /χäɪf/ ("hyfe")

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- Isn't that one of Elon Muskrat's kids?
  
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- When I want to be annoying (and when the people I'm talking to are aware of furries), I pronounce it 'yiff'
  
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Gif, the jift that keeps on jivving.

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ʒaɪf

rhymes with "knife"

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Pronounced it as a soft g in my head the first time I read it, and years later the creator said it was meant to be a soft g, so I feel validated.

When you create an image format, name it whatever you want and if it's any good and I use it, I'll call it what you want

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- Yoofo :(
  
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Some say gif, others say gif. The people saying gif are correct.

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- Ya damn giraffe-loving gifter
  
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"I'm not brave enough for politics."

Immediately makes a hot take.

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- That's the plan. Always has been.
  
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“The correct way, of course.”

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the correct answer is hard-g soft-g ee ef ef: ggi F.F.

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Whatever causes the asker to have the biggest breakdown at the time!

"4G-LTE"? Well that's 'Forgull'ty'

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- Reminds me of "L‘mao" and "C‘tryl“
  
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.jeff

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- I have a friend named Geoff who says gif with a hard G. I like to pronounce his name with a hard G after that. Geff.
  
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- Bezos
  
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The ancient Arcadians actually pronounced it .flif

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Is there a prequels meme community on lemmy?

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- There is!
  
  !prequelmemes@lemmy.ml
  
  Edit: the general Star Wars meme community is more active: !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
  
  Edit edit: and there's also !prequelmemes@lemmy.world
  
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I didn't know about the wrong way to say it until that LOTR meme.

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Hard G. It's “Graphics Interchange Format”, not “Jraphics Interchange Format”.

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- Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?
  
  Now, while pronouncing "G", close your lips to make the sound "G-if".
  
  There you have it, how to pronounce "Gif".
  
  Ps: honestly, That just popped up in my head a moment ago and I'm just trying to troll, wholeheartedly I believe it is hard-G as in Graphics.
  
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  Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?
  
  According to wikipedia the phonetic usage includes:
  [g] [d͡ʒ] [ʒ] [ŋ] [j] [ɣ~ʝ] [x~χ] [d͡z] [ɟ] [k] [ɠ] [ɢ] /dʒiː/
  
  For English pronunciation it lists:
  /dʒ/ /ɡ/ /ʒ/ and silent
  
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- Does that mean you also pronounce scuba sku•ba instead of skoo•bah? Because that U stands for Underwater not OOnderwater. And what about Jpeg? Shouldn't it be Jeg because the P in photographic is silent.
  
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  Or jfeg because photography has an f sound.
  
  It's soft g gif. Because the original joke was choosy moms choose jif, and choosy web developers choose gif.
  
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I grew up without ever having to say it out loud, and the first time I did I say "dot Gee Eye Eff".

I stand by this as the correct pronunciation. .exe, .pdf, .html, .PNG, etc you say as "dot" followed by the letters, why should .jpg and .gif be any different?

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- ekseh, pdff, ping
  
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It's yiff, like furry sex. But in all seriousness, if you don't pronounce it with a hard g, then you can f##k off on the short bus.

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- You had me until the short bus joke. Are you aware that's ~~vaguely~~ super ableist?
  
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  As someone with pretty profound learning disabilities, I'd like to point out that... It's actually very ableist. Maybe putting us in bus ghettos so you can sanitise your school system and isolate your darling children from the freaks is slightly worse though.
  
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  Assuming short busses are the same as minibusses, it's kinda funny because my old school district uses them for transporting the 'intellectually gifted' students to a special advanced class. so 'taking the minibus' is something of a compliment where I'm from.
  
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  Question: person with autism, autistic person, or autist? Justify your answer.
  
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Classic

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It's "dot Ge I Ef"

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