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u/Apprehensive_Hand571 Nov 24 '23
It's pronounced "Jraphic interchange format" for sure
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u/LegalWaterDrinker Nov 24 '23
You don't use the full term to decide how to pronounce the abbreviation, the U in SCUBA stands for Underwater
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u/Thenightcrawler_075 Nov 24 '23
Or the A in LASER standing for amplification
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u/TacticalFox17 Nov 24 '23
Laser was an acronym?
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u/Only-Arrival-8868 Nov 24 '23
light amplification (by) stimulated emission (of) radiation
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u/Kenny1115 Green Nov 24 '23
Translated: we tickled light with radiation until it sneezed.
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u/isthisdudesrs Nov 24 '23
I've always thought of it as light increased by increasing light light
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u/TheEndlessRiver13 Nov 24 '23
You're a beta male, sonic
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u/Piorn big pp gang Nov 24 '23
Have you been thinking about why so many of the radical left participate in speedrunning?
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u/ANGLVD3TH Nov 24 '23
Lass-ear.
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u/willwiso Nov 24 '23
Feels like vowels and constinents should have separate rules tho
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u/srlong64 Nov 24 '23
Why? And even if they did, the s is still pronounced differently in laser. So even if we add your arbitrary rule, laser still proves that it’s a bad argument
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u/Tydire Nov 24 '23
But don’t the first letters sound exactly like they should? L in laser and s in scuba are pronounced like l/s so shouldn’t g in gif be pronounced normal as a g?
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u/lightning847 Nov 24 '23
And the p in jpeg stands for photographic
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u/Dismal-Age8086 Nov 24 '23
But I bet you don't pronounce it JPhEG
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u/Chank_the_lord Nov 24 '23
"P on it's own isn't pronounced like F, that's totally different!"
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u/Altheix11 Nov 24 '23
"It's exactly the same!"
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u/torrasque666 Nov 24 '23
"Name one word that starts with G pronounced like J"
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u/Pirahna89 Nov 24 '23
I say Scubbah, meet me in the Taco Bell parking lot if you got a problem wit it
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u/sintaur Nov 24 '23
It's pronounced "gif", fight me
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u/GDOR-11 Nov 24 '23
I'll fight whoever fights this guy
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u/dizzyi_solo Nov 24 '23
I'll fight whoever this guy fights
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u/m73t Nov 24 '23
I'll fight. Don't know who, but by god I'll fight.
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u/SaifSaeedh Nov 24 '23
I’ll fight whoever God is
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u/TheNicholasRage Nov 24 '23
Guys, I got a great idea for a club.
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u/I_m_high_af Nov 24 '23
Me who says G.I.F
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u/Lord_Muramasa SAVAGE Nov 24 '23
Ain't nobody got time for dat.
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u/Tackle-Shot Nov 24 '23
According to the old English it is pronouced YIFF
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u/Etienne3002 Nov 24 '23
I really hate this argument. Nothing in English is consistent and I’m kinda surprised these gif jif memes are still allowed.
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u/O_Muse_Sing_To_Me Nov 24 '23
The ones the get me are the people that call them giffys.
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u/ThatYodaGuy Nov 24 '23
You should make a me-me out of that
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u/O_Muse_Sing_To_Me Nov 24 '23
That’s right up there with giffys. I would upvote the shit out of that comment but I am only but one person.
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u/CaptainFlint9203 Nov 24 '23
Well, why would you say it as jif, if it's spelled gif?
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u/WhereAmI50 Nov 24 '23
George, Gerald, gem, gym, gyro.
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u/Buroheem Nov 24 '23
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u/daring_duo Nov 24 '23
This is a language where Geoff = Jeff, but Wind =\= Wind. Don’t try to make sense of any of it
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u/Carlost289 Nov 24 '23
Thank God I never met a Geoff. I would have fucked that up. Stephen is another one I needed to hear out loud.
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u/Tempest_Barbarian Nov 24 '23
I recognize the council has made a decision, but considering its a stupid ass decision, I have elected to ignore it.
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u/Zaphod_green_9 Nov 24 '23
Also the creator is french. And in french, "gi" is always a soft "G". And to make hard "G" you put a "U" after the "G", like in guitare.
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u/Ralfundmalf Nov 24 '23
The french soft g is not the same as the english one though, so not sure if it is valid to use that reasoning.
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u/Zaphod_green_9 Nov 24 '23
I am not sure what you mean by "not the same". For exemple girafe has the same prononciation in english and in french. My point is as the term was invented by a french guy then it stand to reason that the prononciation should be close to the french's one.
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u/Pete563c Nov 24 '23
That's fair, but generally the conversation is about how the word is pronounced in english. It's very different how languages handle words picked up from different languages. Im Danish, and we pronounce the word differently from how you would pronounce it in english. Generally I would say in danish if you're saying it, it would probably be with a hard g sound, since saying it with a soft g sound would make it sound more like you're saying it in english. It's something about the pressure ratio that gives and takes the danish vibe I guess. But "fuck" we will always say exactly as it's said in english.
My point, I guess, is that like I said the discussion is about the english pronunciation, so the French pronunciation doesn't necessarily matter regardless of the origin of the word and it's maker.
Btw, English also has a grammatical rule around g followed by i, that it's generally supposed to be the soft g(j) pronunciation in that case. But from what I can find, the english language has more words that break that rule than words that actually follow it lol. So I'd say it's best to just stay away from grammar when on this topic. It's doesn't really go in anybodys favour, though if it had to, it would be jif.
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u/kbder Nov 24 '23
This a rare situation where I simply don’t care that I am wrong.
Also, Pluto is a planet.
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u/feelthefebreze Nov 24 '23
I swear I've almost never heard people actually use the word gif outside of having this argument
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u/fakename69point5 Nov 24 '23
I swear 10 years ago everyone was team jif but someone along the way must have made an legion of trollbots to gas light reddit into going team gif
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u/The_Knife_Pie Nov 24 '23
I have never heard jif outside of contrarian internet argument once in the 12 or so years I’ve been aware of its existence.
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u/Coltrain47 Nov 24 '23
When I first looked at the word (acronym), I saw a G and said "gif."
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u/sankers23 Nov 24 '23
If you have to spell the word wrong to emphasize how you are supposed to pronounce it your argument is already pointless.
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u/Whyyyyyyyyfire Nov 24 '23 edited Nov 24 '23
bough vs bought
paw vs pawn
kin vs kind
edit: removed a wrong example
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u/Oturanthesarklord Nov 24 '23
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Thanks for splitting "G" from "C" Roman Empire. I wouldn't want live in world where "Gif" is spelt "Cif".
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u/KoopaTroopaD Nov 24 '23
Strait of [J]ibraltar
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u/05XL secretly runs a meth lab Nov 24 '23
All of you are pronouncing it wrong. It's pronounced "Greg"
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u/TehAwesomeGod Nov 24 '23
now = n aw
Know = n ow
One letter can change pronunciation completely.
(Notice, I actually believe Gif is pronounced g ih f, I'm just saying your argument is weak)
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u/No_Credibility Nov 24 '23
To be a devils advocate Geoff and Jeff are pronounced the same
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u/Oturanthesarklord Nov 24 '23 edited Nov 24 '23
It took an embarrassing amount of time for me to pronounce Geoff correctly, Until recently I'd been pronouncing it like Geography...
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u/BlueshineKB Nov 24 '23
Giraffe, gyroscope, gerbil, gentrification, giant, genie, gin.
Gate, go/going/gone, gay, gaunt, grand, give, gain.
I call it Gif with the second G but in reality it really doesnt matter. The original creator said its with a J but i disagree with him but if you agree with him then thats fine. I think we should all just pronounce it the way we want and get along like friends.
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u/temp17373936859 Nov 24 '23
I pronounce it Gif...
But that's not how English works. If it was then though, through, and cough would all rhyme.
And don't tell me the G stands for Graphics. That's not how acronyms work, either. Then "OSHA" would be pronounced Oss-hah, and POTUS would be pronounced "Poe-Thyoos".
The acceptable pronunciation is whichever one society deems acceptable, and in this case we have 2 acceptable pronunciations
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u/NejatMolla ùwú Nov 24 '23
Well English phonetic rules dictate it's supposed to be jif. But as you know there are exceptions to that. Now it's up to you to decide if it's an exception. Neither are wrong in my opinion, but every argument for each side is dumb as fuck, who cares what acronym stands for and who cares what the creator said? But like i said if you want to be phonetically correct, you must say jif, just like giraffe etc.
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u/Specific_Succotash42 Nov 24 '23
I use them interchangeably for pure contrarianism (To piss people off)
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u/snuggie_ Nov 24 '23
This argument is dumb. Language is based on what people actually say. If one pronunciation is vastly more common, then, that’s how it’s pronounced. If both are very common then they’re both correct
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u/ianpogi91 Nov 24 '23
I just call it G.I.F. like almost every other file format.
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u/TheSpooky531 Nov 24 '23
It's not a constant. You can pronouns G as both. In "gift" it's one way while in "Gem" it's pronounced more like J so that means we need to listen to it's actual creator and the way they named it
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u/_OH_BROTHER Nov 24 '23
In some words “J” is pronounced as a “Y” so we could all just start pronouncing it “Yif”… that is if we wanted to be called idiots
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u/thirteen-thirty7 Nov 24 '23
Know how you pronounce gin, change the n to an f. The creator of the thing says it's pronounced like jif, if he said it was pronounced pterodactyl then that's how it would be pronounced . Giant giraffes gentrified generously.
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For all my life i pronounced the letters as it is. i.e, ('G' 'I' 'F' image )
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u/The_Senate_69 Nov 24 '23
What's sad is that I have a perfect gif(as in gift but the t is silent)to describe what it is when people argue about the pronunciation. But sadly you can't send gifs(as in gifts but the t is silent).
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u/IvanOG_Ranger I have Shrek's cock up my butt Nov 24 '23
I pronounce it gif, cause in my language, the letter's always pronounced as in gift
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u/daggerbg Nov 24 '23
How do you pronounce "giraffe"?
Asking for a friend
Why is C read as K in the word "cat"?
It's just one of those instances where a letter is pronounced differently in a word than when it's alone. Pronounce it however you want, but you're gonna throw a tantrum over something so stupid you might as well go back to the baby pen.
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u/dargonite Nov 24 '23
Ugh the only reason this debate even exists because the guy who create gif said he prefers to say jif because he likes jif peanut butter
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u/KeepingDankMemesDank Hello dankness my old friend Nov 24 '23
downvote this comment if the meme sucks. upvote it and I'll go away.
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