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Flickertail to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

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Flickertail to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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  • Margot Robbie
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    4•2 years ago

    It’s pronounced “Giraffe”.

    • @marmo7ade@lemmy.world
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      deleted by creator

      • @EyesInTheBoat@lemmy.world
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        4•2 years ago

        Jraphics

      • Margot Robbie
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        2•2 years ago

        No, it actually stands for “Giraffe-ic Interchange Format”, because giraffes can stand, and I love giraffes. 💖🦒

      • @lanolinoil@lemmy.world
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        You’ll have to show other examples of phonetic acronyms requiring their original word’s pronunciation and not the word it’s become.

        it’s not NA(h)TO

      • @brewdtype@lemmy.world
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        9•2 years ago

        I suppose you pronounce jpeg as “j-fey-g” too, then, since the P stands for “Photographic”?

        Or perhaps you argue that to doesn’t count since it’s on the P and not the Ph included in the acronym. In which case I guess we’re just abandoning all connection to the root words and we’re back to the fact that it’s okay to pronounce it “jif”.

        Also the creator pronounces it jif because he was goofing on Jif peanut butter and wanted a “choosy devs choose GIF” joke. So I’m going with that.

        Also it makes people mad and that’s funny.

        • @BetaBlake@lemmy.world
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          -6•2 years ago

          Thinking people getting mad is funny, the trademark of a super mature person.

          • @pythonoob@programming.dev
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            4•2 years ago

            You sound mad bro

      • TheSaneWriter
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        2•2 years ago

        Doesn’t it hurt your point that we don’t pronounce giraffe with a ‘z’ anymore? Pronunciations change, ultimately as long as people understand what I mean when I say “jif” it’s fine.

      • @sidekickplayah@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9•2 years ago

        National Ahronotics and Space Ahgency

  • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    5•2 years ago

    Doesn’t matter

    https://youtu.be/4AMn-7qalgw

  • @LouNeko@lemmy.world
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    0•2 years ago

    I’m not aware of any word that changes pronunciation of the first letter by adding a letter at the end. The closest thing we have to GIF is “gift”, being “gif” with an extra “t” at the end. By that logic GIF should be pronounced like “gift” without the “t”.

  • I use NixOS btw
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    5•2 years ago

    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 :)

  • @kool_newt@lemm.ee
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  • @CifrareVerba@lemmy.world
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    deleted by creator

  • @qwertychomp@lemmy.world
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    1•2 years ago

    deleted by creator

  • LoudWaterHombre
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    13•2 years ago

    https://gizmodo.com/the-creator-of-the-gif-says-its-pronounced-jif-he-is-509179289

    • Sean Fern
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      9•2 years ago

      I pronounce it jizmodo

      • LoudWaterHombre
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        3•2 years ago

        How do you distinguish from jizmodo the porn site?

        • @Malfeasant@lemmy.world
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          2•2 years ago

          Well, one has porn, the other does not.

          • LoudWaterHombre
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            2•2 years ago

            But we are talking about pronounciation, so its about a vocal conversation. How do you distinguish that.

  • Thelsim
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    4•2 years ago

    I’m going to avoid all controversy and just make the g silent. It’s ‘if from now on.
    If I say it fast enough, people will just assume I use their version.

  • @DarkMessiah@lemmy.world
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    9•2 years ago

    Gif stands for “Graphics Interchange Format”. If it were pronounced “jif”, it would be “Jraphics Interchange Format”.

    It is a Graphics Card, not a Jraphics Card!

    • Pixlbabble
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      2•2 years ago

      That’s the same reason why it’s hard for me to watch linux youtubers, guh-nome.

    • @Balderdash@lemmy.world
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      11•2 years ago

      Do you pronounce Sim, Vin, and pin like sime, vine, and pine? The I for all of them stand for identification, so you have to stress the i.

      What about ICE? The C stands for customs, you must pronounce it like “ike”. Or do you pronounce customs as sustoms?

      • El Barto
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        2•2 years ago

        Or do you pronounce customs as sustoms?

        nope, but I will now.

    • LoudWaterHombre
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      3•2 years ago

      https://gizmodo.com/the-creator-of-the-gif-says-its-pronounced-jif-he-is-509179289

    • @chicagohuman@lemm.ee
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      6•2 years ago

      Right, like how scuba is pronounced “scuhbba” and but “scooba” because it is “self contained underwater breathing apparatus”

    • @McDeags@lemmy.world
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      4•2 years ago

      But what about Jee Pee Yoo

    • @Number358@lemmy.world
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      That’s why jpeg is pronounced with a p, because it stands for Joint Potographic Experts Group

  • @agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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    13•2 years ago

    Gesus christ lemmy

  • @Ethab83@sh.itjust.works
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    3•2 years ago

    Eh it’s 50-50 where I’m from, even in the tech community. I’ve always use the j sound when I say it, cause I used to think it was short for giraffe

  • rockerface 🇺🇦
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    2•2 years ago

    Jone and Jode save us!

    • @Gork@lemm.ee
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      4•2 years ago

      By the Nine!

  • Cyanogenmon
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    35•2 years ago

    I seen a guraffe at the zoo!

    • @protist@mander.xyz
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      -2•2 years ago

      But the g in gif stands for “graphical,” not “giraffe!” You silly goose

      • @kibiz0r@lemmy.world
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        The p in jpeg stands for “photographic”.

        So… “jay-feg”?

      • @TommySalami@lemmy.world
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        11•2 years ago

        yeah man, just like you go scuba diving oo-nderwater.

        it’s a dead end. We can’t pretend that “g” can’t also be pronounced as “j”, or that the words making up the acronym matter. It’s all preference and since GIF’s dad called it “jif”, I’m gonna call it “jif”. At least that’s based on something beyond my own hubris.

        • Cyanogenmon
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          1•2 years ago

          This is my thinking - as far as I know he actually called it that as a reference to jif peanut butter.

        • Instigate
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          -3•2 years ago

          Saying it with a hard G because ‘graphical’ has a hard G is a reason based on something beyond hubris.

      • @hamFoilHat@lemmy.world
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        10•2 years ago

        Just like jpeg is pronounced “jfeg”

      • @SuperIce@lemmy.world
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        13•2 years ago

        That’s easily the worst reasoning for the hard-g considering how we don’t pronounce the letters of most acronyms based on the phrases they come from.

        • Nora
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          3•2 years ago

          Tell that to Qantas, the abomination of all acronyms. WHERE IS THE U??? AAAAAAAAA

    • @Ktheone@lemmy.world
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      2•2 years ago

      Don’t you mean a jay-raffe?

    • @hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works
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      4•2 years ago

      I mean it’s funny but of course you are objectively wrong.

      • Cyanogenmon
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        I hate you feel that way. Can I get you a jift to make you feel better?

        It will be a guygantic jift. A large external drive that can hold MANY jiggabytes. Just be careful, it will take a lot of power. 1.21 jiggawatts at least.

    • LousyCornMuffins
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      3•2 years ago

      You lie guraffos are lies told by whores and god

    • @SwallowsDick@lemmy.world
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      2•2 years ago

      This one is good

    • MxM111
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      And it had a gift.

      • themeatbridge
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        Sorry, did you say it had a gif?

      • @danc4498@lemmy.world
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        5•2 years ago

        Was it a gyro?

        • MxM111
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          If it were gyf or gir, then it could have been gyro or giraffe. But no, it was a gift of gif.

  • @boydster@lemmy.world
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    0•2 years ago

    Thank yod someone finally said it!

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