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[-] thrawn21@lemmy.world 163 points 7 months ago

Somehow, I can tolerate "jpheg" much easier than the forsaken "jif."

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 57 points 7 months ago

Jif is where it's at. Peanut butter and image format? Yes please

[-] youngalfred@lemm.ee 24 points 7 months ago

But Jif in Australia is a cleaning solution - can we have different pronunciations based on country?

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago

No need, it's Gif. Heathens be damned.

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago

The creators literally referenced this early on "choosy devs choose gif" like the jiff peanut butter commercial.

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[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 33 points 7 months ago

You don't pronounce the word for imagery as "jrafics?" How odd.

[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

"Jif" is the original pronunciation. It is a pun, a play on the word "jif" short for "jiffy" meaning a short amount of time, as in "I'll send it to you in a gif". The newer pronunciation has become popular based on the fallacious reasoning that an acronym should be pronounced the same as its constituent words, which isn't a thing at all.

Language evolves, and both pronunciations are common enough to be considered acceptable. The only way to be wrong about how to pronounce the word is to claim one of the pronunciations is wrong.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 46 points 7 months ago

Become popular? It's been popular roughly for the lifespan of the format. It's hardly language's fault the developer wanted to make an unfunny reference to a since forgotten peanut butter slogan.

On the other hand linguistics indicate a hard g sound with the construction of the word, constituent words aside. Plenty of four letter words starting with the gi combo have a hard g, including but not limited to gift which you may notice is very similarly constructed.

Whatever else the English language may throw at us, people appreciate consistency because we can make some sense of the world. A hard g is the consistent, predictable, sensible choice for the limited availability of those virtues English offers.

[-] boothin@kbin.social 20 points 7 months ago

There exists other words that start with gi but use the soft g, gin for example. But regardless, the pronunciation of one word is not determined by the pronunciation of other unrelated words.

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[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

It's Gif and I don't care what anyone says

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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 71 points 7 months ago

It's pronounced like yiff. I have spoken.

[-] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Great, now search for communities with 'yiff' here on lemmy.

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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago

It's pronounced Gif, with a soft G as in Graphics.

I don't give a fuck what the idiot creator thinks it should be pronounced as, I'll die on this hill with my honor intact, surrounded by the corpses of everyone who thinks Jif is referring to anything but peanut butter.

[-] emorytaylor@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago

You say soft g when you mean hard g. Hard g's include GOAT, game, dragon, and gangster. And gif.

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[-] klemptor@lemmy.ml 57 points 7 months ago

Helen is wearing socks with sandals. Helen don't give a single phuck.

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Why use C and K in socks when they are pronounced the same?

New spelling: Sokks

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[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

GIF is pronounced GIF not because the G stands for Graphical, but because it is its essence. It is what is calls out to be... Called.

And because it's not peanut butter.

And for the same reason, JPEG is pronounced JFEG not because the P stands for Photographic, but because that is the expression of its true essence.

I just didn't know it before today.

Justice for JΦEG!

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[-] GombeenSysadmin@feddit.uk 41 points 7 months ago

Coming from the jif camp myself, I’d just like to point out it’s jay-phej.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

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[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 40 points 7 months ago

Gif is obviously pronounced like the g's in 'gorgeous'

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Egregious!

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

Honestly have never understood the gif debate. Words sometimes have multiple pronunciations. They're both fine.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 114 points 7 months ago

How dare you not pick a side. Your neutrality sickens me.

[-] honeybadger1417@lemmy.world 68 points 7 months ago

What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

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[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Tell my wife I said "hello"

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Pick a side, you monster, you.

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[-] mathterdark@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

do I look like I know what a "JphEg" is?

I just want a picture of a got dang hot dog

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[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 7 months ago

GIF comes from the Old English word "gif," pronounced with a "y" sound.

So it's yif.

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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 28 points 7 months ago

Git is now pronounced Jit.

JIT, as in the compiler architecture, is now pronounced Git.

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 26 points 7 months ago

If you have to spell it wrong to show how you pronounce it that should be a sighn

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[-] Advocado@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Guys.. guys... can we all just agree that it's pronounced gif and not gif?

[-] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 7 months ago

no you fuckwad it's pronounced gif

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[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago

The J is pronounced like the J in Jesus (Spanish pronunciation)

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We should just go ahead and pronounce all acronyms the way their unabbreviated forms’ first syllable letters are said. Just ignore we treat individual letters differently than the words they came from.

The CIA should sound like “see ya” Department of Transportation “Duht” Internal Revenue Service “ears”

Etc.

[-] asyncrosaurus@programming.dev 16 points 7 months ago

CIA is an initialism, not an acronym, since you pronounce each letter individually.

What you sir are suggesting is a complete erasure of initialisms, and I will not stand for it.

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[-] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Helen wears socks and sandals, and has divergent opinions. Helen needs to disappear in a landfill. Dispatching a team.

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[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

All of this could be solved if English weren't a shit language with incoherent phonemes.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

All this could be solved if people would accept that English changes over time and if defined by usage and understanding.

If people easily understand what I mean when I say gif then I have pronounced it correctly. Same as if people understand what I mean if I use "literally" to mean "figuratively" or spell "island" with an 's' despite it having no Latin roots.

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[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago

Next you’re telling me that LMFAO is called "ellem eff ayo" and not "le mfaao“

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[-] Surp@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Say gift. Now what you're going to do next is leave out the T but enunciate the gif part the same way. Fuck you jif people!

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 26 points 7 months ago

I'll tell the agile fragile fugitive gin-drinking giraffes eating ginger ginseng to imagine gingerly using their digits to engineer a geological survey of the gist of your comment. They ate too much gingerbread and now have gingivitis, so the margins of those attracted to religion aren't as rigid as the original origins of those of that region and we have to remain vigilant lest magic supersede logic, which of course would be terrible for legislation of the legions.

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[-] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Say gigantic. Now what you're going to do next is stop with your ANTICs and enunciate the gig the same way.

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[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago

I just want to point out that Lin-Manuel Miranda has been advocating for peace between the hard and soft G clans for more than a decade.

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 13 points 7 months ago

I love how much absolute war is going on in this thread 🤣

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago

Why don't you just pronounce it "gee-eye-eff"?

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