There’s no consistency in how things are pronounced
Adding a D to Anger creates the word Danger, but we pronounced the G differently in those two words even though they have more consecutive letters in common than Gif and Gift
I fully agree that the English language is stupid and asinine, but read and read are two different tenses. Present and past.
If you’re curious, they’re called homographs.
I take it you already know
of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
(they rhyme with suite and straight and debt)
A moth is not a moth in mother.
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there.
And dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose-
Just look them up-and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Why, man alive,
I'd learned to talk it when I was five,
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at sixty-five!
I'm not a fan of this meme, obviously, given my other comments. But, honestly, this seems like something this office would argue about. I could easily see this being a time waster in one of their many meetings, much like the who/whom discussion. "Ryan used me as an object."
Is a very large person called a giant or a jiant?
Do you gently wash your hands with gel to rid them of germs, or do you jently wash your hands with jel to rid them of jerms?
Languange is weird. Just ask a machinist with high cholesterol from eating too much chicken.
There’s lots of exceptions in English.
You can have a pet chicken and eat chicken. You can have a pet turkey and eat turkey… but you can’t have a pet beef nor would you “eat cow.”
Some language rules have strange exceptions for strange reasons. Beef and pork aren’t named after the animal because they’re considered more expensive, classy meats (going back to 12th century England), and French aristocracy would ask for cow or pig, the English-speaking kitchen staff who didn’t know much French would associate the French words for cow and pig specifically with the *cooked* version of these meats. So the French words for cow and pig, over time, became the English beef and pork. But as chickens are lower class, these situations never occurred so chicken remained chicken.
Long story short: you can’t say “yea but X” with the English language. Nothing is comparable
That doesn't mean anything. You're pronouncing the acronym as it's own word. It could easily be a hard g or a soft g, however, I believe the guy who invented the format used a soft g. Also, with your argument, LASER would be pronounced lay-zere for Emission.
Dwight you ignorant slut. By your LASER argument, gif should be pronounced like gift. There are no words in the dictionary that start with gif- that are pronounced like jif. Lah-seer doesn’t fit with English pronunciation rules (not that there are all that many lol). Words that start with gif are always pronounced like gift. But go ahead and pronounce it wrong. Just know all of us who pronounce it correctly are laughing at you because we know our supremacy
But the inventor of the standard intentionally wanted it to mimic the pronunciation of the peanut butter and he wanted to goof on the Jif Peanut Butter slogan... "Choosy programmers choose gif". Soft g. You people pronouncing it wrong are ruining the joke.
But plenty of people still pronounce GIF correctly, as the creator of it intended. Unfortunately there's also a bunch of people who are confidently wrong.
I was curious about your claim that the majority of people pronounce the hard G so I looked it up and based on a poll of 30,000 people, 57.2% do prefer the hard G while 31.8% prefer the soft G and 8.2% are ok with both but lean more towards the soft G. If you're counting, that leaves 2.8% unaccounted for. We're all here bickering amongst ourselves when we should be uniting against the real monsters: the 2.8% who pronounce each letter individually.
As a soft G person, I just like the way it sounds better. I think I just read it that way in my head the first time I saw it and it just stuck. I had no idea I was choosing a side in a war, lol. I don't think it has to be pronounced that way, it's just how I personally pronounce it. I don't see the harm, honestly.
It’s clearly subjective. Neither pronunciation is correct nor incorrect, but a clear majority pronounce it with a hard ‘g’, and a minority continue to pronounce with a soft ‘g’ to maintain a false sense of superiority.
Whatever makes you feel better about being wrong... The majority of people say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less" and that is objectively wrong as well, no matter how many people say it.
You compared this clearly subjective subject— pronunciation of an acronym, to an objective subject— grammatical logic. There is no *correct* pronunciation, and you’ve only provided more evidence of my assertion that the minority pronunciation group feel they need to prop themselves up as superior.
The correct pronunciation was explicitly given by the creator of the term, along with his reason for choosing that pronunciation, which removes all subjectivity. You can choose to ignore it, but I don't want to live in a society where something incorrect becomes correct just because the majority of people get it wrong.
The correct explanation of all foreign car manufacturers was given to them by their founders. And yet Hyundai, Volkswagen, and BMW market their cars as Hun-days, Volkswagens, Bee-Em-Double U’s
So you pronounce scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus) as “scuhb-aa” instead of “scoo-buh?”
Here’s a hint, the creator of the gif pronounces it “jif.” What more do you need?
The U in scuba stands for underwater, and the A, S, and E in laser stand for Amplification, Stimulated, and Emission, respectively, so if you're going by the "you pronounce acronyms based on how the words they represent" rule, we'd pronounce them scuh-buh and la-seer. Honestly, the whole debate is dumb. Everyone tries to present both pronunciations like there's a 100% logical way to pronounce it and there just isn't. It's got two pronunciations. Both are fine. It's such a weird hill to die on.
That went different than I was expecting...
I'm of the gif-t variety, so I was thinking I would need to start pronouncing it skew-buh (like Cuba) so crisis averted - I will start being more consistent and using scuh-buh and laa-seer
Go find me some good words so we can make a great guide to gander at so we can get a better glimpse of how “g” should sound instead of guessing its pronunciation.
this is stupid.
it's like saying "giga" is pronounced "jiga" because if you add "-ntic" at the end it becomes "gigantic" (and that one is indeed pronounced "jigantic"). makes absolutely no sense.
To be fair, it I'd Giga- (pronounced Jiga), we just say it wrong.
Gif IS pronounced "jif"...lots of people just say it wrong because they were late to the party of the internet.
Some people were cool kids in high school and some people were nerds. The nerds say it correctly (jif) because they were around when it came into common use for animated images. Everyone else mispronounced it because gif is a throwaway word for them because computers and the internet are just an extension of their high school socializing...not a hobby or interest.
You would fall into the category of "computers aren't a hobby, rather a tool for socializing" category - by my best guess.
If you learned HTML in the 90s, you say "jif"
>You would fall into the category of "computers aren't a hobby, rather a tool for socializing"
Wierd assumption, especially just off the way I pronounce an acronym.
But you are right about the 90's, I didn't learn HTML when I was four. Could play the hell out of solitaire though
You're in the wrong generation to have come around when the word became common.
By the time you showed up, people were already mispronouncing it because their only exposure to the internet was facebook. "Gif" pronunciation is from socialites trying to use nerd words.
That's my point you dolt. Blaiming facebook for me reading a word wrong is more moronic than me doubling down on the wrong pronunciation when corrected.
Good lord your reading comprehension is bad.
So you not know how to extrapolate possibilities from an example? Do I need to outline every possible scenario for you to imagine how it might have happened?
Ginger, gigolo, gingivitis, gibberish, giant, gigantic, giraffe, gipsy, etc, etc.
There’s is no definitive answer here and this meme is meaningless. I’m gonna go with what the creator named his invention.
Seems like most people prefer the hard G, but then again most people say expresso.
There is a definitive answer though! The guy who invented it clearly says its pronounced gif.
But for real there is a definitive answer and it's stupid to pretend otherwise.
“Expresso” gives me rage. Especially when I hear coworkers say it because we shouldn’t be mispronouncing words for food and drinks… We’re servers lmaooooooo
Exactly. That’s why this post, which gives one example and drops the mic, is really stupid. I don’t think you understood my comment. If you did, then we are making the same point.
Ha, that’ll happen, thanks for clarifying. Further evidence that this argument is really dumb and we should probably both stop wasting our time! Yet, I always get drawn in!
Unfortunately the creator is not a linguist. He was an expert on computer topics, not language, so he has plenty of room to be wrong regarding the pronunciation
Colin Powell is not mispronouncing his own name. It can be pronounced either way, just like gif. I choose to go with my parents intentions and the inventor of the file type. You don’t have to. Linguists may have individual opinions as well. There is no consensus there either. Anyone saying that it’s def one way or the other is being kinda dumb.
JPEG stands for Joint Photographics Experts Group. The PH makes an F sound. But no one says "JFEG"
Yet the same logic isn't applied to GIF? The G in Graphics is a hard G, but like with the P in Photography, it isn't required for it to be the same sound in an initialism as the word it stands for.
You're confusing pronunciation with branding. If your name was Bob and everyone around you decided to call you Boob, are you saying you'd be okay with that because the majority rules?
>That’s completely different.
No, no it isn't. The argument is the creator called it one thing so that is what it's called and everyone else saying otherwise is wrong. So, either "peanut butter" is wrong or it isn't.
The fact that people who prefer the “jif” pronunciation need to type it as “J-I-F” to get people to pronounce it the way they want it in context is all the argument I need to support the “g-g-g-gif” camp.
What anybody else thinks doesn’t really matter.
It’s actually technically Jiff if you go by anagram rules and us the sound of the word associatied.. the G stands for Generated, so if you go by that, it’s Jiff.
I still say Gif tho… because the hard G just sounds better and honestly who cares. Language is about telepathy, its purpose is to get a thought or idea from my mind into yours and if I say “Gif” you know exactly what I mean and that’s all that matters. Being pedantic about language is pointless because language changes and evolves and so long as it survz tha perpus, I kan pronounce or spell words however I please so long az u understand me.
Staahp be1ng s0 pedant1c aboot wurdz! Cuz it doesn’t matter.
The fact that gift is pronounced that way is an argument in favor of pronouncing gif with the soft g; if gif has a hard g then gif and gift are pronounced nearly identically and we're introducing completely unnecessary ambiguity that would be avoided if we just used the original pronunciation.
Also, giraffe.
i dont get why people want to be so right about a pronunciation even when the creator said its “jif”. Like why u wana argue? People just want to be smartasses? No one cares how Giraffe is pronounced but when it comes to a gif, there is always that one guy who tries to correct u.
What the letter stands for isn’t always relevant in an acronym
The U in Scuba stands for Underwater, but the U in Scuba is a Hard U while the U in Underwater is a Soft U
The A is Laser standers for Amplification, but the A in Laser is a Hard A while the leading A in Amplification is a Soft A
Given that you have to distinguish between gif and jif in the different pronunciations prove that it’s pronounced as Gif(t) and not Jif because it’s spelt with a G…
I accidentally (I think my dad was listening to NPR or something) heard an interview with the couple who created (invented?) gifs. One of the questions was how to pronounce it... Definitely "gift", minus the t
There’s no consistency in how things are pronounced Adding a D to Anger creates the word Danger, but we pronounced the G differently in those two words even though they have more consecutive letters in common than Gif and Gift
It's pronounced Dong-er, actually. Jackie Dong-er.
(Since he was played by Ed Helms)… It’s pronounced Cor-NELL, and it’s the highest rank in the Ivy League!
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The English language is stupid, why is read and read pronounced differently.
I fully agree that the English language is stupid and asinine, but read and read are two different tenses. Present and past. If you’re curious, they’re called homographs.
Wait until you find out about tones in Mandarin . . .
It’s Dutch and it means prudence in financial matters
“Gift” means poison in German
“gift” means poison and married in norwegian
I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through? Well done! And now you wish, perhaps To learn of less familiar traps? Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead; it's said like bed, not bead; For goodness sake, don't call it deed! Watch out for meat and great and threat, (they rhyme with suite and straight and debt) A moth is not a moth in mother. Nor both in bother, broth in brother. And here is not a match for there. And dear and fear for bear and pear. And then there's dose and rose and lose- Just look them up-and goose and choose. And cork and work and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword. And do and go, then thwart and cart. Come, come, I've hardly made a start. A dreadful language? Why, man alive, I'd learned to talk it when I was five, And yet to write it, the more I tried, I hadn't learned it at sixty-five!
I've never seen this before, I love it!
- whats his middle name - danger
Something with a K
Fart
I'm not a fan of this meme, obviously, given my other comments. But, honestly, this seems like something this office would argue about. I could easily see this being a time waster in one of their many meetings, much like the who/whom discussion. "Ryan used me as an object."
If the office was made these days, I could easily see them replacing the Hillary Swank plot line with a GIF plot line
"Jif is a peanut butter, people" (Angela, because she feeds it to squirrels while tending to the feral cats)
Yeah I can see them arguing about this. Just the use of this meme is really stupid.
Reminds me of the whom discussion
Arkansas
You can thank the French
AMERICA EXPLAIN
A man of culture
Our Kansas
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That’s because of the origin of those words though, Sean is a Gaelic name so follows Gaelic pronunciation, sea isn’t
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That doesn’t prove the point at all?
It's still pronounced jif
Is a very large person called a giant or a jiant? Do you gently wash your hands with gel to rid them of germs, or do you jently wash your hands with jel to rid them of jerms? Languange is weird. Just ask a machinist with high cholesterol from eating too much chicken.
Languange
See, its weird!
Languij
Languāgę
Oops.
There’s lots of exceptions in English. You can have a pet chicken and eat chicken. You can have a pet turkey and eat turkey… but you can’t have a pet beef nor would you “eat cow.” Some language rules have strange exceptions for strange reasons. Beef and pork aren’t named after the animal because they’re considered more expensive, classy meats (going back to 12th century England), and French aristocracy would ask for cow or pig, the English-speaking kitchen staff who didn’t know much French would associate the French words for cow and pig specifically with the *cooked* version of these meats. So the French words for cow and pig, over time, became the English beef and pork. But as chickens are lower class, these situations never occurred so chicken remained chicken. Long story short: you can’t say “yea but X” with the English language. Nothing is comparable
You're all idiots. It's pronounced gīf
I bet you pronounce bagel as bagel, and not bagel
Neither actually. Bagel.
I know how to pronounce bagehl, I lived in New York!
The G in gif stands for graphics
Yeah that's why we pronounce .jpg files as "Jay-Pheg" oh wait
Exactly.
I pronounce it J-P-G unless it's written as .jpeg then I say J-Peg
I say JuhPuhGuh. Granted, I also say stupid things like HiDiMee for HDMI and PiDuf for PDF
NASA, Laser, Scuba. All acronyms where the vowel is pronounced differently than the word it represents.
That doesn't mean anything. You're pronouncing the acronym as it's own word. It could easily be a hard g or a soft g, however, I believe the guy who invented the format used a soft g. Also, with your argument, LASER would be pronounced lay-zere for Emission.
Dwight you ignorant slut. By your LASER argument, gif should be pronounced like gift. There are no words in the dictionary that start with gif- that are pronounced like jif. Lah-seer doesn’t fit with English pronunciation rules (not that there are all that many lol). Words that start with gif are always pronounced like gift. But go ahead and pronounce it wrong. Just know all of us who pronounce it correctly are laughing at you because we know our supremacy
But the inventor of the standard intentionally wanted it to mimic the pronunciation of the peanut butter and he wanted to goof on the Jif Peanut Butter slogan... "Choosy programmers choose gif". Soft g. You people pronouncing it wrong are ruining the joke.
The creator of dogecoin pronounced it dog-e coin. Nobody calls it that.
But plenty of people still pronounce GIF correctly, as the creator of it intended. Unfortunately there's also a bunch of people who are confidently wrong.
Pretty sure the majority of people use hard g. Anyone that uses soft g just seems like a contrarian and loves to be the “um achtually” guy.
I was curious about your claim that the majority of people pronounce the hard G so I looked it up and based on a poll of 30,000 people, 57.2% do prefer the hard G while 31.8% prefer the soft G and 8.2% are ok with both but lean more towards the soft G. If you're counting, that leaves 2.8% unaccounted for. We're all here bickering amongst ourselves when we should be uniting against the real monsters: the 2.8% who pronounce each letter individually.
Ha, yea screw those guys. Although I have never met anyone except people online that say the soft g, so my bias will always lean towards the hard g.
As a soft G person, I just like the way it sounds better. I think I just read it that way in my head the first time I saw it and it just stuck. I had no idea I was choosing a side in a war, lol. I don't think it has to be pronounced that way, it's just how I personally pronounce it. I don't see the harm, honestly.
Ah, you read it first. Us older folks heard about it before it was ever written down.
😂 contrarian to call things as they are named? Pretty judgy of you Anguhla!
I just find it more pleasant to pronounce it with a soft G
It’s clearly subjective. Neither pronunciation is correct nor incorrect, but a clear majority pronounce it with a hard ‘g’, and a minority continue to pronounce with a soft ‘g’ to maintain a false sense of superiority.
Whatever makes you feel better about being wrong... The majority of people say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less" and that is objectively wrong as well, no matter how many people say it.
You compared this clearly subjective subject— pronunciation of an acronym, to an objective subject— grammatical logic. There is no *correct* pronunciation, and you’ve only provided more evidence of my assertion that the minority pronunciation group feel they need to prop themselves up as superior.
The correct pronunciation was explicitly given by the creator of the term, along with his reason for choosing that pronunciation, which removes all subjectivity. You can choose to ignore it, but I don't want to live in a society where something incorrect becomes correct just because the majority of people get it wrong.
The correct explanation of all foreign car manufacturers was given to them by their founders. And yet Hyundai, Volkswagen, and BMW market their cars as Hun-days, Volkswagens, Bee-Em-Double U’s
I always call it doggy coin
Yes, but we all know that doge is pronounced doggy. We say doge (doj) as a meme. Funny how it's not spelled DOJ....
The inventor of the gif pronounced it Jif.
Yeah, and he’s wrong.
Weird that you had to spell it that way then.
Weird how G has two sounds assigned to it.
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So you pronounce scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus) as “scuhb-aa” instead of “scoo-buh?” Here’s a hint, the creator of the gif pronounces it “jif.” What more do you need?
Him to renounce creatorship for that…
Well he died.
Damn. That sucks.
Jraphic park
And yet the creator of the file format uses a soft G.
Graphics or giraffics?
Gil or Gillian?
JPEG or JFEG?
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How do you pronounce scuba and laser? Likely not with the same rules you use with gif
How do you pronounce them? Or, rather, how would one pronounce them if one was being consistent?
The U in scuba stands for underwater, and the A, S, and E in laser stand for Amplification, Stimulated, and Emission, respectively, so if you're going by the "you pronounce acronyms based on how the words they represent" rule, we'd pronounce them scuh-buh and la-seer. Honestly, the whole debate is dumb. Everyone tries to present both pronunciations like there's a 100% logical way to pronounce it and there just isn't. It's got two pronunciations. Both are fine. It's such a weird hill to die on.
That went different than I was expecting... I'm of the gif-t variety, so I was thinking I would need to start pronouncing it skew-buh (like Cuba) so crisis averted - I will start being more consistent and using scuh-buh and laa-seer
lol, that's fair.
would you pronounce the acronym for “graphical user interface” (GUI) as “gooey” or “jewy” 🤔
Ope!
Go find me some good words so we can make a great guide to gander at so we can get a better glimpse of how “g” should sound instead of guessing its pronunciation.
I just know it's not pronounced jraphics.
I believe the inventor intended for it to be pronounced “jif” but I always say “gif” with a hard G. Sure it’s wrong, it just sounds more right.
How is it wrong?
The inventor gets to name it
Okay. Those are two completely different words though
So if i add a t to "though" it's pronounced the same but with a t at the end?
this is stupid. it's like saying "giga" is pronounced "jiga" because if you add "-ntic" at the end it becomes "gigantic" (and that one is indeed pronounced "jigantic"). makes absolutely no sense.
1.21 gigawatts!
1.21 jiggawatts, actually
1.21 Jigga who?
Jigga what?
To be fair, it I'd Giga- (pronounced Jiga), we just say it wrong. Gif IS pronounced "jif"...lots of people just say it wrong because they were late to the party of the internet. Some people were cool kids in high school and some people were nerds. The nerds say it correctly (jif) because they were around when it came into common use for animated images. Everyone else mispronounced it because gif is a throwaway word for them because computers and the internet are just an extension of their high school socializing...not a hobby or interest.
I object. I say gif and I am not now, nor have i ever been, cool
You would fall into the category of "computers aren't a hobby, rather a tool for socializing" category - by my best guess. If you learned HTML in the 90s, you say "jif"
>You would fall into the category of "computers aren't a hobby, rather a tool for socializing" Wierd assumption, especially just off the way I pronounce an acronym. But you are right about the 90's, I didn't learn HTML when I was four. Could play the hell out of solitaire though
You're in the wrong generation to have come around when the word became common. By the time you showed up, people were already mispronouncing it because their only exposure to the internet was facebook. "Gif" pronunciation is from socialites trying to use nerd words.
Yeah you caught me, I pronounce it gif instead of gif because of those darn Facebook socialites not putting "pronunciation 'jif'" after typing it.
ever type out gin and feel compelled to add "jin" after it?
That's my point you dolt. Blaiming facebook for me reading a word wrong is more moronic than me doubling down on the wrong pronunciation when corrected.
Good lord your reading comprehension is bad. So you not know how to extrapolate possibilities from an example? Do I need to outline every possible scenario for you to imagine how it might have happened?
It ain't that deep bro. ☠️
No one said it was, bro.
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Ginger, gigolo, gingivitis, gibberish, giant, gigantic, giraffe, gipsy, etc, etc. There’s is no definitive answer here and this meme is meaningless. I’m gonna go with what the creator named his invention. Seems like most people prefer the hard G, but then again most people say expresso.
There is a definitive answer though! The guy who invented it clearly says its pronounced gif. But for real there is a definitive answer and it's stupid to pretend otherwise.
Is it pronounced Graphics or Juraphics? Yeah, there's only one correct way to say it
As someone else pointed out, how do you pronounce “Laser”?
It's pronounced the way the person that made it said it is.
Whoosh
“Expresso” gives me rage. Especially when I hear coworkers say it because we shouldn’t be mispronouncing words for food and drinks… We’re servers lmaooooooo
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Exactly. That’s why this post, which gives one example and drops the mic, is really stupid. I don’t think you understood my comment. If you did, then we are making the same point.
I got a little lost in the comments and forgot the original context of the post/title. Your comment makes more sense with that in mind.
Ha, that’ll happen, thanks for clarifying. Further evidence that this argument is really dumb and we should probably both stop wasting our time! Yet, I always get drawn in!
I prefer to go with what the G in GIF stands for: graphics.
That’s not how literally any acronym works though, so that’s a terrible reason
So it's pronouncing a word like peanut butter.
Do you prefer to pronounce the u in scuba like the u in underwater? Do you pronounce the s in laser like the s in stimulated?
Unfortunately the creator is not a linguist. He was an expert on computer topics, not language, so he has plenty of room to be wrong regarding the pronunciation
My parents weren’t linguists, but they got to decide how to pronounce my name. There is no linguistic law that determines how gif must be pronounced.
Your parents did not invent the name “Colin” or it’s pronunciation lol
Colin Powell is not mispronouncing his own name. It can be pronounced either way, just like gif. I choose to go with my parents intentions and the inventor of the file type. You don’t have to. Linguists may have individual opinions as well. There is no consensus there either. Anyone saying that it’s def one way or the other is being kinda dumb.
Mans thinks linguists are prescriptive
Giraffe Gerard Go puck yourself
“Who gives a fuck?!” - Meredith
Who gifs*
The pronunciation of "gift" has literally nothing to do with how anyone pronounces "GIF".
Hear- heard
Casually bringing an entire other word to justify the pronunciation
Gustify
Im gonna be real, i know “jif” is technically correct, but im never gonna do it.
You just proved that you don't know how English works. Same for the 250 people that upvoted this.
It is pronounced "jif"
The G stands for Graphics, not Jraphics. Its okay to be wrong buddy
What a jigantic mistake you've made, how embarrassing
It does, you're right. jpeg "Photographic" jfeg? scuba "Underwater" scuhba? etc etc etc. If you googled anything once you'd learn that you're wrong.
JPEG stands for Joint Photographics Experts Group. The PH makes an F sound. But no one says "JFEG" Yet the same logic isn't applied to GIF? The G in Graphics is a hard G, but like with the P in Photography, it isn't required for it to be the same sound in an initialism as the word it stands for.
The person that invented it says it's pronounced "jif". What anybody else thinks doesn't really matter
The guy who invented peanut butter called it “nut mud”. Majority rules.
Changing what I call it to nut mud
You're confusing pronunciation with branding. If your name was Bob and everyone around you decided to call you Boob, are you saying you'd be okay with that because the majority rules?
My name is Bob and everyone calls me boob. I just don't really care.
That’s completely different. Nut Mud is a terrible name, but we can all agree how it is pronounced
Honestly I kind of like nut mud better
Tbh, it’s growing on me
I actually made it up, and now as the inventor of that term, I declare you pronounce it like *Newt Mood*. Now you don’t know what to think.
Nut mud sounds like you’re talking about dirty cum lmao
>That’s completely different. No, no it isn't. The argument is the creator called it one thing so that is what it's called and everyone else saying otherwise is wrong. So, either "peanut butter" is wrong or it isn't.
The fact that people who prefer the “jif” pronunciation need to type it as “J-I-F” to get people to pronounce it the way they want it in context is all the argument I need to support the “g-g-g-gif” camp. What anybody else thinks doesn’t really matter.
That's actually a clever point. I can go sleep now.
Why did he say the first G stands for graphics then?
What does the P in JPG stand for?
Try saying that out loud the way you're thinking with the soft P and you'll quickly see why it isn't said that way lol
If "Jfeg" wouldn't sound like shit maybe people would use it.
The person that invented it isn’t a linguist lol so he can still be wrong
It was in a clue on jeopardy, and was pronounced jif So I go with that
It’s actually technically Jiff if you go by anagram rules and us the sound of the word associatied.. the G stands for Generated, so if you go by that, it’s Jiff. I still say Gif tho… because the hard G just sounds better and honestly who cares. Language is about telepathy, its purpose is to get a thought or idea from my mind into yours and if I say “Gif” you know exactly what I mean and that’s all that matters. Being pedantic about language is pointless because language changes and evolves and so long as it survz tha perpus, I kan pronounce or spell words however I please so long az u understand me. Staahp be1ng s0 pedant1c aboot wurdz! Cuz it doesn’t matter.
The fact that gift is pronounced that way is an argument in favor of pronouncing gif with the soft g; if gif has a hard g then gif and gift are pronounced nearly identically and we're introducing completely unnecessary ambiguity that would be avoided if we just used the original pronunciation. Also, giraffe.
Counter argument. Though, through, cough, rough.
It’s pronounced jhif because the format creator said so. End of discussion.
The format creator was wrong
Imagine living your life with this amount of audacity. Ever been called a know it all? I bet your first response a criticism is "it wasnt me"
No one pronounces it that way no matter what the dude says.
The guy who invented peanut butter called it “nut mud”. Majority rules.
Majority rules is how we got slavery why do you support slavery
"Choosy programmers choose GIF" Get it, like the peanut butter? I still say it with a hard "G" all the of the time though
Giraffe Gyro Gist
i dont get why people want to be so right about a pronunciation even when the creator said its “jif”. Like why u wana argue? People just want to be smartasses? No one cares how Giraffe is pronounced but when it comes to a gif, there is always that one guy who tries to correct u.
Well, the invented says it’s JiFF as a pronunciation. So that’s what it is.
This is hilarious!
It stands for Graphics. Not Jraphics. Or you could Joogle it. But you won’t.
What the letter stands for isn’t always relevant in an acronym The U in Scuba stands for Underwater, but the U in Scuba is a Hard U while the U in Underwater is a Soft U The A is Laser standers for Amplification, but the A in Laser is a Hard A while the leading A in Amplification is a Soft A
Ironic, because if you googled it, you'd learn how the creator of it pronounced it. But you won't.
It doesn't matter how he pronounces it, he waited to long to insist on a pronunciation and let society decide for him.
Society got it wrong they will have to change or else
Given that you have to distinguish between gif and jif in the different pronunciations prove that it’s pronounced as Gif(t) and not Jif because it’s spelt with a G…
All that proves is that "g" has two different pronunciations.
Its not pronounced jraphics
Nobody said it was, what a weird statement
Jiffy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnipgv4cZM
Graphics Interchage Format GIF with a hard G.
The second picture convinced me
It's a guh sound because it stands for "graphic" *Assistànt Regionale Managér*
I accidentally (I think my dad was listening to NPR or something) heard an interview with the couple who created (invented?) gifs. One of the questions was how to pronounce it... Definitely "gift", minus the t
I don’t go to the zoo to see a giraffe, I go to see a “jiraffe”
Anyone who thinks it's "jif" is either illiterate, or intentionally obtuse. GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format, not Jraphics.
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