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People who actually pronounce "gif" as "jif"

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It just sounds right to my head. Pronouncing it like gift just sounds wrong to me. I've been saying jif to myself for years now. And now some people on the interwebs are telling me I'm wrong?

Pfft whatever. There are no rules to acronyms.
 
If I ever need to make a quick decision about which person to save, like from burning building, I think gif/jif pronunciation would be a useful test.
 
Guys, guys, the creator doesn't get to change things once the public has already been exposed to them. That'd be like JK Rowling saying you're not supposed to pronounce the t in Voldemort after the books became super popular.
 
Hard G represent!

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I say jif. The creator agrees that's the way it should be said. Why? Because it sounds nicer than with the hard g. Knuckle dragging Neanderthals who never could have created such technology, and who cannot use creative pronunciations of acronyms and instead must only use the vocalization their primitive brains can understand in defiance of the almighty creator pronounce it with a hard g.

:D
 
Log4Girlz said:
I say jif. The creator agrees that's the way it should be said. Why? Because it sounds nicer than with the hard g. Knuckle dragging Neanderthals who never could have created such technology, and who cannot use creative pronunciations of acronyms and instead must only use the vocalization their primitive brains can understand in defiance of the almighty creator pronounce it with a hard g.

:D
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I can't see how soft g sounds nicer than hard g. I prefer hard g myself.
 
jiji said:
Yeah, it makes sense that people who say "jiff" would also use a semicolon when a period would suffice.
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I reject your minimalist, fascist punctuation snooze-fest in favor of a cornucopia of delightfully diverse punctuation marks. I also like English sentences with half a dozen clauses stacked on top of one another.
 
I hope people aren't serious when they argue about something like this.
 
Well the creator said it's the proper way to pronounce it, so that makes it the correct way. /shrug

I still pronounce it "gif"
 
GK86 said:
WHO GIVES A SHIT? Seriously, there is a thread on this damn topic every week.
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When you're wrong you have to shout it all the time to try and make it true.

e: Since OP brought it up, people who don't use the voiced palato-alveolar affricate sound illiterate as heck, so the constant populist rabble rousing is very complimentary.
 
I'm willing to pay the creator a fortune just to make him retract his statement of it being pronounced "jif" and declare "gif" as the superior and official pronunciation.
 
1. Myself and most people I know have always said "jif"

2. The fucking creator said its pronounced "jif"

3. Go find something to do other than bitch about the pronunciation of an image file name.
 
Pronounciation in the english language is a tricky thing. Very frustrating:

http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.

Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter how it's written).
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid.

Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak ,

Previous, precious, fuchsia, via
Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;
Woven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.

Say, expecting fraud and trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles,
Missiles, similes, reviles.

Wholly, holly, signal, signing,
Same, examining, but mining,
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far.

From "desire": desirable-admirable from "admire",
Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier,
Topsham, brougham, renown, but known,
Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone,

One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel.
Gertrude, German, wind and wind,
Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind, ...

of gibbet, gibbon, gist, ...
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tapedeck said:
1. Myself and most people I know have always said "jif"
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Their traveling in groups.

2. The fucking creator said its pronounced "jif"
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That would be implying that the creator of anything really, has a say in what nick names the things they make, get. Xbox can say XBOX ONE all the damn day, its the ECHSBONE according to the web.

3. Go find something to do other than bitch about the pronunciation of an image file name.
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Maybe he had the time.

Maybe you should not have clicked on the thread?
 
ab.aeterno said:
jraphics interchange format
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BocoDragon said:
This.

The creator of GIF is an idiot for saying its JIF.

The word it abbreviates is not pronounced with a J sound. And no one should think the spelling Gif would imply a J sound either.
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tuna on toast said:
The G is for Graphics; therefore, it should be pronounced gif. Saying jif is stupid douchebag shit for morons.
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StalkerUKCG said:
Graphics Interchange Format

You don't say Jraphics. Jraphics Park
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fool160821 said:
It doesn't matter what the creator think. Graphic is not jraphic.

My man.
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You don't pronounce AA (alcoholic anonymous) as "ah-ah."

You don't pronounce AWOL (absent without leave) as "ah-wall."

Acronyms are pronounced differently, deal with it.
 
Oh shit someone pronounced the first consonant differently? Better freak out about it and look like the moron for freaking out about pronunciation that doesn't matter...

Stupid shit aside, I've always said jif. Sounds better and thanks to this thread I now know I was right all along. Whatever.
 
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