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minus-squareI use NixOS btw linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoTbh, I used to pronounce it ‘JIF’ (because in my native language, ‘gi’ is always a soft ‘g’, and I usually speak that), but now that I think about it in English, a hard G makes more sense. In Romanian I also pronounce gigabytes as jigabytes :)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoI bet the inventor didn’t have a jirlfriend.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoWell, he’s probably better at programming, than language then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tbh, I used to pronounce it ‘JIF’ (because in my native language, ‘gi’ is always a soft ‘g’, and I usually speak that), but now that I think about it in English, a hard G makes more sense.
In Romanian I also pronounce gigabytes as jigabytes :)
the creator of gif pronounces it as jif
I bet the inventor didn’t have a jirlfriend.
Someone should buy him a nice jift.
Well, he’s probably better at programming, than language then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯