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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every day we stray further from jod

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[–] MiikCheque 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

how do you pronounce God, goo, grey, great, good, gun, gumption, goofy

plus jif is peanut butter

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

While I agree with you on how it should be pronounced, not a good argument. Giraffe.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Gift without the t, I always say

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Giant, geode, gel, george, gerbil. Just sayin'.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

*Gust sayin'.

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

I agree with you but I have a simpler argument, which is the mere fact that this exists: https://fileinfo.com/extension/jif

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

u choose all these unrelated words when theres GIFt

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jraphics Interchange Format

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Yiff obviously

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you pronounce it jif, you are 100% wrong no matter who you are.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

gif. With a hard g, because there is also .jiff and you could not distinguish otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The fact that this conversation exists is proof that the word is intuitively pronounced with a hard G.

The only reason to pronounce it like a J if because the creator liked it - and the reason he liked it was literally because of the (copyright-infringing) similarity to the peanut butter.

He made a huge contribution to the Internet by creating the format, and he deserves it gratitude. Mispronouncing gif is not the best approach to that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You realize there are other words people pronounce incorrectly just because they’ve only ever read it right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Pronunciation of words is decided by consensus - and while of course people mispronounce things, what that means is, they pronounce it differently from the accepted cultural norm.

We don't get all in a knot because Americans prove things differently from British people - even though they originally set the rules for English. And we don't pronounce things the way we do because George Washington (being analogous to wilhite (or whatever his name was)) told us to; we pronounce things as we do because of cultural consensus.

Wilhite's intention was literally to use the name recognition of the peanut butter to further his own success - which, like, who cares - but the simple fact that he made that decision (and to be clear, regardless of our opinion on copyright, is a bad way to make the decision) strongly implies that he was aware that his pronunciation was unnatural.

The fact that this conversation even comes up is proof that culturally we reject wilhite's pronunciation. It's a lost battle - the only reason I get involved in these threads is because I have a hard time watching the same 3 talking points (on both sides) and the same 3 rebuttals - all of which attempt seem to use facts and logic to determine "correct" pronunciation - when the truth is, the pronunciation has already been decided, and soft-G pronounces deserve to understand it.

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[–] Jon_Servo 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't think there's any real argument here. So I turned this into a meme.

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[–] shalafi 17 points 1 year ago

Like a sane person. Why do you ask?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I hate this argument so I'm going tip start pronouncing it like the Dutch G or the Spanish J and you won't be able to tell which it is because I speak neither language.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not jraphics interchange format

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

neither do divers use "self contained OOnderwater breathing apparatus", usually written as SCUBA.

Nor do we say jPHeg files.

Nor "north AYYtlantic treaty OHHrganization"

or "light AYYmplification by stimulated emnssion of radiation"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] BlackVenom 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Nope, not even close. It's followed by an E.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

New one I just became aware of:

How does everyone say SQL?

[–] Dick_Justice 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I go back and forth between "Ess Cue Ell", "Sequel", and "You Fucking Whore"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is what we do at work.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

My dad has used SQL forever and calls it "Sequel."

[–] tdawg 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Depends on the context

MySQL: my es que el

SQL Server: sequel Server

PostgreSQL: Postgress

or by itself just es que el

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's an initialisation, not an acronym, so it's only:

Ess-queue-ell.

Surely anything else is madness

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[–] Spider89 7 points 1 year ago

Ess-Cue-Elle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I call it sequel but I've heard squirrel and squeal.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I pronounce it 'yiff'.

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

This stupid fucking argument is proof humans will never achieve world peace

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[–] Dick_Justice 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With a hard "guh" sound, because that's what I grew up with.

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

Jpeg should be pronounced gaypeg whenever someone else chooses to pronounce gif as jif. Change my mind.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Or you can pronounce it "heef" as in Spanish, just saying

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Gif. Obviously.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"Choosy developers choose gif."

[–] metostopholes 7 points 1 year ago

G like the g in beige, with a long I. "Zhaif"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I just read it as it appears, phonetically, like any other word. Gif.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Imagine talking in a language where people cant decide how words are pronounced

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, so that's what we're going to do today, we're gonna fight?

[–] unnecessarygoat 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nobody mentions the people who pronounce it G-I-F

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