Shave_MyBeever,

GeoIF

macabrett,

I pronounce it like gin but I don’t really care how someone else pronounces it.

Chefdano3,
@Chefdano3@lemm.ee avatar

They’re both GIF, and they’re both pronounced correctly, because there is only one way to pronounce it, and there is no other way.

Evil_Shrubbery,

It’s not Data, the correct pronunciation is Data.

digger,
@digger@lemmy.ca avatar

The one on the left is pronounced GIF and the one on the right is pronounced GIF.

xusontha,

Actually, I’m pretty sure you have them flipped

ElBarto,
@ElBarto@sh.itjust.works avatar

You’re both wrong, the G is silent.

xusontha,

“if”

I like it

asexualchangeling,

You forgot about the hidden y sound at the end, it’s spelled gif, but pronounced ify

superfes,

You sure it’s not a ‘Yi’ sound?

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug,

Do you pronounce origin like the state?

ursakhiin,

Data definitely says the hard g. His interests are in being more human. Not pedantically arguing about the way the creator says things in an attempt to upend the majority. The latter is definitely Lore’s jam, though

Be more like Data.

possiblylinux127,

Maybe GIF?

FaceDeer,
@FaceDeer@kbin.social avatar
negativenull,

Welcome to
Gurassic Park

xusontha,

It’s Jrrrreat!

tony the tiger

negativenull,
Malfeasant,

What the hell is a gigawatt?

negativenull,

Pronounced “jijawatt”:
gigawatts

NessD,

Gif as in gift. Anything else is nonsense!

xanu,

Illogical!

Doug,

The girl’s gig to give the gift of gifs

EmergMemeHologram,

Giraffes? Giraffes!

Doug,

Gilded gibbons

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Jift?

Agent641,

Jirl?

Manifish_Destiny,

Ever seen a geriatric geologist named George at the gym? How about a giant ginger giraffe drunk on gin. What about a genderless genealogist cutting generic gems?

Tavarin,
@Tavarin@lemmy.ca avatar

Sure, but JIF is a different file format, so pronouncing it as “jif” just creates overlap.

Also every single one of those G’s should be replaced with the letter J; English needs spelling reform.

acockworkorange,

Also also, GIF stands for Graphical Interchange Format, and that’s definitely a G sound.

By the way, the format can’t die soon enough. PNG and video formats are more compact and better quality too. Time to bury this zombie.

NessD,

Combinations of letters before and after change the pronunciation of certain parts of a word. None of your words have “gif” pronounced a “jif”. If you have one, tell me. I’m seriously curious if there is a word. As of now the only reference I have is “gift” with a hard g.

Manifish_Destiny,

That’s a retarded argument.

NessD,

No u

teft,
@teft@startrek.website avatar

Graphics Interchange Format. Hard G.

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug, (edited )

Do you pronounce origin like the state?

Do you you also say “nay-say” when reading NASA, lol, that logic is flawed.

I’d like to remind everyone that the rules for words amd pronunciation were documented AFTER most words, which is why it’s so inconsistent and arbitrary

teft,
@teft@startrek.website avatar

The acronym for NASA uses the same sounds as the words that make the acronym. Same as GIF so I’m not sure what your point is. Mine is that GIF stands for graphics interchange format and graphics starts with a hard g therefore GIF should start with a hard g.

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug, (edited )

dictionary.cambridge.org/…/aeronautics

dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/…/agency

Then

dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/…/nasa

They are phonetically different sounds altogether, so your argument is flawed.

Edit: Im fucking dumb, it’s administration, not agency. Even so, my point still stands, NASA is phonetically different than the sound in aeronautics.

dictionary.cambridge.org/…/administration?q=admin…

shottymcb, (edited )

It’s the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug,

Oof, I fucked that one up

shottymcb,

Well Aeronautics is a hard A, so you got that going for you least :)

Should be naysah.

Tavarin,
@Tavarin@lemmy.ca avatar

SCUBA, unless you pronounce underwater as oonderwater.

Also JIF is a separate file format, so GIF should not be pronounced the same.

pruwybn,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I use a hard G but this is a bad argument. I’ll just link to this great list of counterexamples:

lemmy.world/comment/2216080

r2vq,
@r2vq@lemmy.ca avatar

How do you pronounce JPEG?

Tolookah,

Jay-peg

r2vq,
@r2vq@lemmy.ca avatar

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. So by the other user’s logic, you shouldn’t be using the hard /p/ sound.

Tolookah,

Ah, Jafeg, like Jafar’s less charismatic cousin.

Downcount,

I don’t care as long as you don’t say Jetpack to JPG like my old collegue used to say.

xusontha,

Whut

That’s an actual crime

Xariphon,

Always pronounce it "GIF."

Never "JIF."

Only Lore does that.

SnotFlickerman,

Lore: It’s pronounced GIF… because of the implication.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • random
  • uselessserver093
  • Food
  • aaaaaaacccccccce
  • [email protected]
  • test
  • CafeMeta
  • testmag
  • MUD
  • RhythmGameZone
  • RSS
  • dabs
  • Socialism
  • KbinCafe
  • TheResearchGuardian
  • oklahoma
  • feritale
  • SuperSentai
  • KamenRider
  • All magazines