"GIF" or "JIF"

[JackBurton]

I use "jif" because I actually bothered to learn how it's pronounced instead of learning your bastardized version.

Exactly.

 

[Broheim]

I use "jif" because I actually bothered to learn how it's pronounced instead of learning your bastardized version.

oh, so you're going to start pronouncing the the days of the week correctly?

 

[Jeffg010]

There can be only one JPG

 

[Pens1566]

do you also pronounce it jraphics? Because that just opens the flood jates for all kinds of silly james, jranted he invented it but that doesn't jive him the right to joad us into using his pronounciation. He jot his award and that's jood for him but he should just say his joodbyes and jo home.

Been to the gym lately???

 

[Ken g6]

oh, so you're going to start pronouncing the the days of the week correctly?

If you go by how the people who came up with the thing pronounced it, today is Freyr's day.

 

[Pens1566]

The point is that it doesn't matter what he wants people to call it. If he had wanted people to pronounce it JIF when he created it, he should have called it JIF, or at least made the G stand for a word that begins with a soft G sound.

Slight legal problem if he'd used jif

 

[AustinInDallas]

http://gizmodo.com/the-creator-of-the-gif-says-its-pronounced-jif-he-is-509179289
jif, ive been right since 98

 

[Mixolydian]

Anyone who pronounces it with a "soft" G (aka JIF) needs to be shot in the head.

 

[natto fire]

No "graphics interchange format"? I will load this thread into my random access memory later, with the help of my network interface card and central processing unit. It will pass along my peripheral connection interface (express) bus to my graphics processing unit, where it will eventually go to my liquid crystal display with light emitting diode backlighting through a high definition media interface cable. Curious to see the battle rage on.

*didn't use google so I might be wrong on the PCI one.

 

[gorcorps]

do you also pronounce it jraphics? Because that just opens the flood jates for all kinds of silly james, jranted he invented it but that doesn't jive him the right to joad us into using his pronounciation. He jot his award and that's jood for him but he should just say his joodbyes and jo home.

No it doesn't. English is a terrible language with exceptions to rules all over the place. Saying this one file format is pronouced "jif" doesn't change a damn thing about anything else, because it's an invented term and not a real english word.

If he wants it to be "jif" then it's supposed to be jif, and if you still use "gif" you're not only wrong, but now you're purposefully stupid because you already know you're wrong.

 

[Broheim]

If you go by how the people who came up with the thing pronounced it, today is Freyr's day.

no actually todays if Freyja's or Frigg's day (scholars can't quite figure out if they're the same god or not).

 

[Mixolydian]

WED-nes-day

 

[mnewsham]

Anyone who pronounces it with a "soft" G (aka JIF) needs to be shot in the head.

I'l just go drink some GIN

 

[Mixolydian]

I'l just go drink some GIN

your point?

 

[BlitzPuppet]

Jiff, what I learned in college.

 

[mnewsham]

your point?

The sound of a hard g (which often precedes the non-front vowels a, o, u) is usually [ɡ] (as in go) while the sound of a soft g (typically before i, e, y) depending on language, may be a fricative or affricate. In English, the sound of soft g is /dʒ/ (as in George).



TL;DR if you think its pronounced "gif" not "jif" you need to go back and slap your 10th grade english teacher.

 

[Newbian]

Gif like the rest of the internet does.

 

[Broheim]

No it doesn't. English is a terrible language with exceptions to rules all over the place. Saying this one file format is pronouced "jif" doesn't change a damn thing about anything else, because it's an invented term and not a real english word.

If he wants it to be "jif" then it's supposed to be jif, and if you still use "gif" you're not only wrong, but now you're purposefully stupid because you already know you're wrong.

hersheyzebrasquirtsshittingappledicktounguenipples is a new word I've just invented, and it's pronounced coca cola....

 

[sactoking]

The point is that it doesn't matter what he wants people to call it. If he had wanted people to pronounce it JIF when he created it, he should have called it JIF, or at least made the G stand for a word that begins with a soft G sound.

He did. He invented the GIF while working for Compuserve and the proper pronunciation was printed in the manual. It's not his fault that stupid men refuse to read instructions.

 

[AustinInDallas]

http://gizmodo.com/the-creator-of-the-gif-says-its-pronounced-jif-he-is-509179289
jif, ive been right since 98

then again i said "mee-mee" for over a year [meme]

 

[Broheim]

WED-nes-day

no Woden's day, which is appearently the bitch ass anglo-saxon way of saying Odin.

 

[Broheim]

The sound of a hard g (which often precedes the non-front vowels a, o, u) is usually [ɡ] (as in go) while the sound of a soft g (typically before i, e, y) depending on language, may be a fricative or affricate. In English, the sound of soft g is /dʒ/ (as in George).



TL;DR if you think its pronounced "gif" not "jif" you need to go back and slap your 10th grade english teacher.

ever received any GIFTS

 

[Spungo]

I've always called it JIF, and that's what the guy who made it calls it, so therefore, that's the right way.

If you say GIF, you should feel bad about yourself.

The guy who made it should feel bad for not knowing how to spell properly.

I created a file type called 7zip; it's pronounced "wise and beautiful woman"

 

[lxskllr]

oh, so you're going to start pronouncing the the days of the week correctly?

Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 71st day of Discord in the YOLD 3179

 

[gorcorps]

The guy who made it should feel bad for not knowing how to spell properly.

I created a file type called 7zip; it's pronounced "wise and beautiful woman"

it's pronounced "snatch"