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[–] snowe@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cuz the devs explicitly named it after the peanut butter and even gave it a catchphrase to make sure you pronounced it correctly. It was a marketing campaign. “Choosy developers choose gif”.

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How do you pronounce JIF, then? (That's the JPEG Interchange Format.)

[–] snowe@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

The same way? There’s thousands of words in the English language with the same pronunciation and different spellings. This isn’t the dunk you think it is.

Besides, gif existed first. If JIF wanted to use the name without confusion maybe they should have come out first (missed it by half a decade) or come up with a catchy phrase.

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago
[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

Right there in the first paragraph, it says

The base specifications for a JPEG container format are defined in Annex B of the JPEG standard, known as JPEG Interchange Format (JIF).

[–] Soundhole@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a real shame (for them) they don't dictate how the English language works

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

Neither do you?