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"GIF" or "JIF"

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"GIF" or "JIF"

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Broheim said:
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.
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Been to the gym lately???
 
AstroManLuca said:
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.
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Slight legal problem if he'd used jif
 
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.
 
Broheim said:
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.
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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.
 
Mixolydian said:
your point?
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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.
 
gorcorps said:
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.
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hersheyzebrasquirtsshittingappledicktounguenipples is a new word I've just invented, and it's pronounced coca cola.... 😡
 
AstroManLuca said:
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.
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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.
 
mnewsham said:
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.
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ever received any GIFTS
 
bignateyk said:
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.
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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"
 
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