I will face Jod and walk backward into hell before I say "jiff"
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oh that's easy, it's "dot gif"
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💀
Because that's 3 syllables instead of 1. Ain't nobody got time for that!
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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”.
How do you pronounce JIF, then? (That's the JPEG Interchange Format.)
Gif, clearly.
The same way? There’s thousands of words in the English language with the same pronunciation and different spellings. This isn’t the dunk you think it is.
Besides, gif existed first. If JIF wanted to use the name without confusion maybe they should have come out first (missed it by half a decade) or come up with a catchy phrase.
Yiff
Um, I don't know how to tell you, but that means a wiiiildly different thing. 🤣
Jraphic interface format really sounds right /s
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
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)
Let me just get my Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus ready /s
For this logic to be consistent you would have to pronounce JPEG as "jayfeg"
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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It's actually pronounced yif
I take the third route and pronounce it Heef, as in Spanish
Gif, the jift that keeps on jivving.
whichever way pisses off the most people
watch me pronounce it /χäɪf/ ("hyfe")
Isn't that one of Elon Muskrat's kids?
When I want to be annoying (and when the people I'm talking to are aware of furries), I pronounce it 'yiff'
ʒaɪf
rhymes with "knife"
“The correct way, of course.”
Some say gif, others say gif. The people saying gif are correct.
Ya damn giraffe-loving gifter
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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.jeff
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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Whatever causes the asker to have the biggest breakdown at the time!
"4G-LTE"? Well that's 'Forgull'ty'
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the correct answer is hard-g soft-g ee ef ef: ggi F.F.
The ancient Arcadians actually pronounced it .flif
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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Is there a prequels meme community on lemmy?
There is!
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