GIF
“Gee Eye Eff”
I got real self righteous there for a second, but i see they included the wrong pronunciation as well
I first read that as a hitman image format.
How dare you come here with this blasphemy.
Pronounced ‘chief.’
More like Gee-f
Okay, so like a GIF Wrangler
Like Ask Jeeves but with a ffff
i’ve forgotten most of my IPA so this is really helpful
Enough IPA and I tend to forget things as well.
If that’s not divisive in today’s political climate, I don’t know what is.
/s
Anything with a dotted underline is canonically meant to be hovered to show a tooltip.
Piss off both sides and just spell it. G.I.F.
I feel like that’s a win for hard G honestly.
But the letter “G” has a soft “g” in its pronunciation. Otherwise, you’re talking about clarified butter.
The letter G is pronounced Jee, with a J sound. Not Gee
Just say the full name outright: “Graphically Integrated Framework”
The notorious G I F
Why do they list an incorrect pronunciation?
To stop the edit wars.
Also the creator of the format attempted to troll people by saying it’s officially pronounced “jiff”, and it’s taken as truth by the gullible and the people who believe that if you create something, you should be able to control what people call it (even if it defies logic).
*“Jeff”
I agree that the manner this was presented at the 2013 Webbys, which kickstarted the debate, was jokingly, but the specifications have always recommended “jiff” since the format’s inception, though also a bit jokingly:
Wilhite and the team who developed the file format included in the technical specifications that the acronym was to be pronounced with a soft g. In the specifications, the team wrote that “choosy programmers choose … ‘jif’”, in homage to the peanut butter company Jif’s advertising slogan of “choosy moms choose Jif”.[3]
Are they always wrong though?
Giraffe-ic Interchange Format.
Weird that they don’t have the pronunciation listed for giraffe the same way
The only thing I know about this is that it’s unnecessary to start another “internet war” over how someone pronounced terms like this one, since both pronunciation are recognizable (even my friends often spelled in with different results thanks to their accents and our local language too)
Me on mobile: Huh, interesting…
g as in gif
Wrong, it’s pronounced “gif”
I wish it was gnuf
g as in gnome
g as in genuine ginormous gendered giraffes gesticulating gingerly
‘G’ as in “Gary my guy, it’s great you have the guts to be wrong again!”
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general gibberish
generous genecologically German genies generated gelatinous genitals
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I pronounce that as gay peg
You must make a lot of new friends.
at the leather store, yes
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yeah well jayphegg yourself buddy
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well okay i guess i’ll send the cookout invitation to OOP then
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i mean if you came we could throw a Haskell on the barbie. sorry friend, buddies only at the cookout.
Meaning?
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Well that makes no sense. If your view is that “it’s an acronym or it isn’t” then you pronounce it as individual letters or as a word. But the reality of language is much messier than arbitrary rules people come up with. If people pronounce it as if it’s a word in its own right, that means that’s how it works. Just as with laws of physics, if what we observe contradicts the rule, the rule was wrong.
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choosing to pronounce “gif” with a hard “g” is an arbitrary renunciation of the standards of the language.
Right. That’s why people naturally started pronouncing it with a hard ‘g’ to begin with…
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What rule? I just go by what I read in the 90s about what the creators thought.
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Acronyms are abbreviations. Maybe you mean an initialism?
