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[Xe4]

Hard G 4 lyfe

 

[Nesotenso]

jif, it is jif

 

[SmokyDave]

Djzyph.

 

[TheSaddestSort]

Hard G for me. "JIF" is just the peanut butter brand that's inferior to Skippy.

 

[Anustart]

Jif. Any other way sounds fucking stupid.

And as always, if you were going off of the words being abbreviated, this site is pronounced NeoGayf. Because, afterall, it's not gaming ahj forum.

 

[MogCakes]

so we all agree NeoGAF should be pronounced NeoJAYF

 

[Altazor]

I'm actually cool with pronouncing GIF as Berenstein. I hope it catches on. Let's celebrate by posting your favorite Berenstein.

it's actually Berenstain and we're all through the looking glass

 

[NullPointer]

I just wrap the soft-G GIF within a new acronym as "GIF Image Format", or GIF, which I then pronounce with a hard-G.

Everybody wins.

And by everybody I mean me.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

The title change slayed me.
And I've always said "jif."

 

[JeTmAn81]

Why does it matter? Lots of words have multiple pronunciations. I've always pronounced it as "jiff" from a time long before .gif's were mentioned in spoken conversation with any frequency.

 

[genjiZERO]

I think Jif is correct, but I say Ghif in practice.

 

[Luminaire]

I'm actually cool with pronouncing GIF as Berenstein. I hope it catches on. Let's celebrate by posting your favorite Berenstein.

jacknicholsonyes.berenstein

 

[cirrhosis]

I've always pronounced it jeef with a long "ee" sound.



yaaasss, arise Thanos!

 

[Paganmoon]

Members fighting in the thread, mods fighting in the title.

 

[Coffee Dog]

It's Jif because we are not saying the word graphics.

 

[MogCakes]

Members fighting in the thread, mods fighting in the title.

War never chanjes

 

[Summer Haze]

I've always pronounced it jeef with a long "ee" sound.

 

[darthbob]

Hard G.

This is the only issue that I will never, ever change my opinion on.

 

[Veritigo_X]

it's actually Berenstain and we're all through the looking glass

I'm not getting into this argument. Not today.

 

[Dennis]

I've always pronounced it jeef with a long "ee" sound.

Now you are just embarrassing yourself.

 

[Col WillieSharp]

Jif. I'm not saying Gif out loud.

 

[Lunar15]

Feel free to call it what you want, but if you ask me for a Jif, I'm giving you peanut butter.

 

[Anoregon]

Jif. I'm not saying Gif out loud.

Yeah it would be almost as ridiculous as saying gift, how embarrassing!

 

[TimorousPanda]

I pretend that those who pronounce it with a soft "G" are all joking and that it's just a ploy to get others worked up. It's both entertaining and satisfying because I fall in the hard "G" camp and, in my mind, everyone agrees with me.

 

[Guevara]

how do you say Darksied?

Dark-SIDE or Dark-SEED

Spoiler

or Thanos

TIA

 

[Disgraced]

I'm pretty confident the Berenstainers and jiffers are from the same universe.

 

[Joyful]

give me jif or give me death

 

[Agent Gibbs]

The whole JIF sound because ts a soft g is mad
Its an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format, GRaphics so its from a word with a hard G
the damn creator was just sick of being asked and decided to troll everyone

GIF till i die! JIF scum can do one!

 

[MogCakes]

give me jif or give me death

You will pronounce it gif and your name is goyful

 

[Gaz_RB]

Jif for life. Everyone I know in real life that calls it gif is a shitty person.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

Gif.

Like gift. But no "T".

Gif.

 

[Rentahamster]

The 'you pronounce it like the start of each word in the acronym' as a hard and fast rule doesn't work since I doubt any of you pronounce the 'P' in JPEG with an 'f' sound.

 

[Rest]

I am please with this title change.

 

[Kallor]

Lol @ the title.

 

[NullPointer]

If gif is actually jif then NeoGAF is actually NeoJAF.

 

[PsychBat!]

 

[Dr. Black Jack]

Hard g for life.

 

[The Real Abed]

The first time I saw .gif, I pronounced it with a soft-G, and that works for me.

Yup.
Giraffe.
Giant.
Gif.

This is how I've done it since 1994 when AOL's internet browser received support for animated GIFs. It's how I've said it since and how I will always say it. I pronounced it JIF because I was familiar with the peanut butter and pronunciation, but I was not familiar with what it stood for. Even after learning it stood for Graphics, it never once occurred to me to pronounce it GIF.

No one fucking cared until some idiot on the internet brought attention to it. And the creator agrees that it's JIF. It doesn't matter what Chris Hardwick and all the other internet police say.

Pronounce it however the fuck you want. JIF, GIF, I don't care. I won't give a shit if I hear you say it one way or another in a video. But if you're the kind of moron who decides to complain or stop watching a video or listening to a person because of the way they pronounce a fake made up word which until recently didn't have any known proper pronunciation, then whatever. Just keep your complaints to yourself.

Pronounce it JIF. Pronounce it GIF. Or just call it by its entire name just to avoid argument. Just stop being such Nazis when it comes to pronunciation of words. This goes for all words too. Especially British English vs. American English.

The 'you pronounce it like the start of each word in the acronym' as a hard and fast rule doesn't work since I doubt any of you pronounce the 'P' in JPEG with an 'f' sound.

This is a good point too. There's literally no way to prove how it should be pronounced either way. It's language. And it's English at that. It's complicated and makes no sense. Pronounce it how you want. All I know is if I made up a word, even if it's an acronym, I'm going to pronounce it how I want.

Would this be a big issue if the GIF was invented today in the internet age and had a big release party where the creator came on stage and said "Today I am releasing a new image format. I call it 'Graphics Interchange Format', or 'JIF' for short."? i.e. if the creator told people right off the bat how to pronounce it? Instead of taking 25+ years to try and settle a debate? Somehow I don't think this would be as big a war if it hadn't taken 25 years. People don't like to admit they're wrong even when proven wrong.



In the end...

who gives a shit

 

[JeTmAn81]

how do you say Darksied?

Dark-SIDE or Dark-SEED

Spoiler

or Thanos

TIA

I definitely said seed until I heard it pronounced otherwise. I think that one does have an official pronunciation as defined by the creator(s). Of course, along those lines the creator of GIF would have the power to decide its pronunciation...JIF WINS!

 

[DJ_Lae]

I try and avoid saying gif out loud because it's a dumb-ass word regardless of how it's pronounced. When I do I like alternating between gif and jif just to mess with people.

It's not as bad as people who say OMG out loud, though. Fuck them.

 

[Lamel]

Its Jif.

And it's also NeoJAF

 

[A Human Becoming]

soft g, always a soft g.

True to that. gi can make the j sound.

 

[BigDes]

how do you say Darksied?

Dark-SIDE or Dark-SEED

Spoiler

or Thanos

TIA

Mongul

 

[spindashing]

I've always pronounced it jeef with a long "ee" sound.

haha

 

[Ryouji Gunblade]

They're going to have to change giraffe first.

 

[Intheflorsh]

Say jif out loud. You will immediately feel like a jerk.

 

[JustenP88]

I've been saying 'jif' for over a decade. 'gif' sounds like a bullshit almost word. Who the hell cares anyways?

 

[cheststrongwell]

Will always be jif to me. I'll never say it out loud though, so it doesn't matter.

 

[F0rneus]

I'm a graphic designer, and I've never heard jif IRL. And I work with gifs all the time. My teachers, my co-workers, people in the business. It's a gif. As it should be.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Just pretend you're Dutch and pronounce it with a soft G.

Spoiler

Hard G, you jiff weirdos.

Soft G lol.