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It’s pronounced “Giraffe”.
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Jraphics
No, it actually stands for “Giraffe-ic Interchange Format”, because giraffes can stand, and I love giraffes. 💖🦒
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
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.
Thinking people getting mad is funny, the trademark of a super mature person.
You sound mad bro
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.
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Doesn’t matter
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”.
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 :)
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I pronounce it jizmodo
How do you distinguish from jizmodo the porn site?
Well, one has porn, the other does not.
But we are talking about pronounciation, so its about a vocal conversation. How do you distinguish that.
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.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!
That’s the same reason why it’s hard for me to watch linux youtubers, guh-nome.
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?
Or do you pronounce customs as sustoms?
nope, but I will now.
Right, like how scuba is pronounced “scuhbba” and but “scooba” because it is “self contained underwater breathing apparatus”
But what about Jee Pee Yoo
That’s why jpeg is pronounced with a p, because it stands for Joint Potographic Experts Group
Gesus christ lemmy
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
Jone and Jode save us!
By the Nine!
I seen a guraffe at the zoo!
But the g in gif stands for “graphical,” not “giraffe!” You silly goose
The p in jpeg stands for “photographic”.
So… “jay-feg”?
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.
This is my thinking - as far as I know he actually called it that as a reference to jif peanut butter.
Saying it with a hard G because ‘graphical’ has a hard G is a reason based on something beyond hubris.
Just like jpeg is pronounced “jfeg”
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.
Tell that to Qantas, the abomination of all acronyms. WHERE IS THE U??? AAAAAAAAA
Don’t you mean a jay-raffe?
I mean it’s funny but of course you are objectively wrong.
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.
You lie guraffos are lies told by whores and god
This one is good
And it had a gift.
Sorry, did you say it had a gif?
Was it a gyro?
If it were gyf or gir, then it could have been gyro or giraffe. But no, it was a gift of gif.
Thank yod someone finally said it!
