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[–] OldManBOMBIN 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

My giant giraffe agrees.

If you're still unconvinced, say "G"

The letter starts with the J sound.

Checkmate atheists.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I may sound haughty and knowledgable when I say JiF then, but between just you and me, I didn't know a damn thing about this and just decided to say it this way in my brain for reasons that remain unclear.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 1 year ago

Me too. I just always said it with a soft G because my brain told me that's how it was pronounced.

[–] OldManBOMBIN 1 points 1 year ago

Strange that I never got a notification for this. Hm.

I've always pronounced it that way for whatever reason, and when I learned that was the correct way I was very high and mighty, lol

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

Yes but actually no

[–] AstridWipenaugh 5 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah? Well lick my gargantuan gorilla gonads.

(I'm actually team jif but can't help myself)

[–] irmoz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] OldManBOMBIN 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, from a gyrating genie named George.

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

Jorge wants to have a word with you.

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

Good god Gordon go gag a gator

[–] MeanEYE 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oooh, that's how grammar works in English language? Okay, so me as a developer of some obscure thing from this point forward are instructing everyone to pronounce "home" as "hume", since that's how you pronounce "o" in "tomb". I decided that solely because my software is loosely related to the meaning of the word. K thx bai.

[–] OldManBOMBIN 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you invent the word home? No? So you don't get to decide how to pronounce it.

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

Neither did the author of graphic format. GIF is not a word, but initialism, like NSA, FBI, NASA, IBM, etc. And there are specific rules how they are read and pronounced.

[–] dogslayeggs 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NASA is an acronym, not an initialism. And guess how the last letter of NASA is pronounced versus how the A in the corresponding word is pronounced. Ah vs Uh.

[–] MeanEYE -2 points 1 year ago

Irrelevant comment to the discussion at hand as the matter is not set in stone in English language. More to the point it doesn't change the fact how GIF is pronounced. Even if you consider it an acronym it's still a form of abbreviation and not a word on its own with known heritage, hence the general rules on how to pronounce letter g do not apply.

Had the word originate from French part of the English dictionary (like gin, giraffe, etc.) then g is pronounced as j before vowels e and i and would make sense. But Germanic words (such as gift, geese) still use hard g. So applying normal rules is pointless, since English has no such thing.

In short, it's pronounced whatever the way people pronounce it. End of story.

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

Haha, good one!

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

technically starts with the D sound

[–] OldManBOMBIN 1 points 11 months ago

Now you're just getting crazy

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

I always think all the arguments are ridiculous because it’s essentially saying that someone is pronouncing a product (not a word) that they created incorrectly. This product even has a catchphrase for it. There’s literally nothing you can say to contradict that. It’s a product with a catchphrase that describes how to pronounce it. If you pronounce it differently then you do you, but you are wrong.

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

It's also pretty funny when it's about actual product you will get corrected to the intended pronunciation, or at least, allowed because people acknowledge there might be multiple way of reading a word based on where you from. Like potato and tomato.