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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do people have to pronounced it in any way? Why not say G-I-F? I've been saying it like that since before I knew about the huge debate💀

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because that's 3 syllables instead of 1. Ain't nobody got time for that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year 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”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Neither do you?