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re: How to Pronounce GIF?
Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:39 am to JayDeerTay84
Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:39 am to JayDeerTay84
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The programmers who developed the format preferred a pronunciation with a soft g (in homage to the commercial tagline of the peanut butter brand Jif, they supposedly quipped “choosy developers choose GIF”). However, the pronunciation with a hard g is now very widespread and readily understood
Oh, so the end user fricks it up and then thinks the programmer is an idiot? Nothing new here.
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Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:39 am to Splackavellie
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This is correct, however the creator pronounces it with "J" sound witch is strange.
Turns out to be a very successful troll for those who fell for it.
Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:40 am to A Menace to Sobriety
Most people will say it is pronounced with the J sound. However, the word it is derived from, "graphic" does not have a hard J sound.
There is also an existing file type of .jif
For these two reasons I will continue using the hard G when pronouncing it.
There is also an existing file type of .jif
For these two reasons I will continue using the hard G when pronouncing it.
Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:41 am to A Menace to Sobriety
I believe the proper way I’d yif
Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:42 am to A Menace to Sobriety
It’s been ended for a while
Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:46 am to Splackavellie
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This is correct, however the creator pronounces it with "J" sound witch is strange.
Yes, but which witch is which?
Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:47 am to Splackavellie
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This is correct, however the creator pronounces it with "J" sound witch is strange.
Eye cee what ewe did there
Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:48 am to JayDeerTay84
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Is it that complicated? What does the letter "G" sound like to you?
I always laugh at this idiotic explanation. How do you pronounce the following?
giraffe
Georgia
giant
gentle
generate
germ
gist
geology
gym
Posted on 8/25/20 at 11:53 am to JayDeerTay84
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Is it that complicated? What does the letter "G" sound like to you?
So you say
I need to cut the jrass today?
and you pronounce "rat" like arrat?
Cuz saying the letter r sounds different than pronouncinj it in a word.
Gif sounds better than jif. I'll stick with gif, you do what ever you want...
This post was edited on 8/25/20 at 11:55 am
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:08 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
Its pronounced just like it’s spelled. If it was jif it would be spelled jif.
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:10 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
Anyone who says hard g "gif" is a sociopath
Genuinely never heard any normal person IRL say it that way
Genuinely never heard any normal person IRL say it that way
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:12 pm to Ingeniero
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the fact that it's "graphical interchange format" so it should be a hard g.
This is the answer.
I consider anyone that says Jif to be unintelligent.
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:21 pm to JayDeerTay84
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Is it that complicated? What does the letter "G" sound like to you?
That's a tougher question than you thought.
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:26 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
The answer is with a hard g, like gift or gill or gizmo -- most English words that start with "gi" are pronounced with a hard g. Flip through a dictionary if you don't believe it.
Soft gi comes from Italian and other foreign languages. Others, like "gin" are corruptions of spelling that happened a long time ago before people cared about it. Gin comes from the Dutch word, genever....
Soft gi comes from Italian and other foreign languages. Others, like "gin" are corruptions of spelling that happened a long time ago before people cared about it. Gin comes from the Dutch word, genever....
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:32 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
I pronounce it like it's spelled. Gift minus the t.
If they wanted it to be pronounced the other way they should have used a j
If they wanted it to be pronounced the other way they should have used a j
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:36 pm to Pettifogger
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Anyone who says hard g "gif" is a sociopath
Drop a pin.
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:37 pm to fightin tigers
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The inventor of the file type call it Jif. Like the peanut butter.
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:38 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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The person who created GIF says it with the soft sound like jiff.
I go with the creator, he makes the rules
He created it, but he was wrong.
People who say jiff are sheep, blindly following the false leader.
This post was edited on 8/25/20 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:38 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
The creator of it says that it starts with a j sound but the rest of the world says he’s wrong
Posted on 8/25/20 at 12:40 pm to Mo Jeaux
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The inventor of the file type call it Jif. Like the peanut butter.
He should have paid more attention in English class instead of 'dickin around with computers if he wanted to make any sense.
This post was edited on 8/25/20 at 12:42 pm
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