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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Wav_function 6 points 1 year ago

That was beautiful

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's how you do it, boys and jirls

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

Great.
However none of those have the g-i-f sequence and have the j sound.
They do have g-i-t sequences. So it suggests that the f makes the g pronounced like a g not a j.
Intact, you could use examples like "digit" to argue the versioning software should be pronounced jit.

[–] misophist 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But git is literally a word (and it's pronounced with a hard G).

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

https://initialcommit.com/blog/How-Did-Git-Get-Its-Name

Yeh, it's obviously a nonsense argument.
Linus even suggested 2 backronyms for it, none of which have the j sound.
And there is precedence for git being pronounced git not jit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

However none of those have the g-i-f sequence and have the j sound.

So the criteria for pronunciation is other words that have the exact same letters? What does that mean for the pronunciation of "women"?

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

Women Vs world? Women Vs Woo? Women Vs work? Women Vs wonder?

Cause the "wom" sequence would be...
Women Vs Womb?
Women Vs Wombat?

The arguement is obviously nonsense.
It's going into syntax of words to get pronunciation, instead the acronym/name.
Which is funny, because that's exactly what's happening in the gif/jif argument.

[–] samus12345 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure what you're trying to say, but not a single one of those words pronounce the "wo" like it is in "women."

[–] assassin_aragorn 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems to be closest to the i in fish -- hence the fun alternate spelling of photi

[–] samus12345 2 points 1 year ago

Ghoti is better (using the "gh" in "enough"), and yep.

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

Womb and women are pronounced the same (well, except the ending).
Unless it's a local dialect thing where "women" is pronounced "wimin"?

[–] samus12345 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody I've ever heard pronounces it "woo-min", only "wimmin." Definitely not a local dialect.

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

Well, if you heard me, I pronounce "women" like "womb".
Maybe I have the local dialect.

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

Are you from PNW? I think I remember a video from reddit where someone said woo-min and a commenter said they're from there and say it like that.