It’s pronounced like yiff. I have spoken.
Great, now search for communities with ‘yiff’ here on lemmy.
Honestly have never understood the gif debate. Words sometimes have multiple pronunciations. They’re both fine.
How dare you not pick a side. Your neutrality sickens me.
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
Bunkers. And ski slopes…
Ah, bunkers. You see, bunkers have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I will send wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reach their limit and shutdown.
All I know is my gut says “maybe”.
it’s an acronym (as opposed to initialisms, which are not pronounced as a single word). There is no rule on pronunciation.
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We don’t do this for any other acronym. There is no rule about the pronunciation. It’s arbitrary. The creator chose “jif”, so that’s the “canonical” one.
Coming from the jif camp myself, I’d just like to point out it’s jay-phej.
GIF comes from the Old English word “gif,” pronounced with a “y” sound.
So it’s yif.
No, it comes from the name Graphic Interchange Format.
So if we’re going to with jfeg, then we’re also going with gif.
If you have to spell it wrong to show how you pronounce it that should be a sighn
I love how much absolute war is going on in this thread 🤣
Helen is wearing socks with sandals. Helen don’t give a single phuck.
Why use C and K in socks when they are pronounced the same?
New spelling: Sokks
Nah, gotta go with soks - can’t have that redundant k in there!
Socc is the correct spelling now, because its “soccer” not Sokker (or Soker).
This is a hill I am willing to die on.
Language evolves over time to become shortened for convenience.
Therefore sox is now the correct spelling. You all are using archaic spelling variations. Sox is always plural. I’m sure this will cause no confusion.
On a less anarchist note, spelling wasn’t standardized until the early 1900s.
So up until then, sox, soccs, socs, sokks, soks, and socks were all valid ways to refer to foot panties.
Foot panties!! This is now canon, someone call Merriam-Webster!
Foot condom
So now Fish=Ghoti is being applied to spoken acronyms? In that case it’s all out nuclear war.
Gif is obviously pronounced like the g’s in ‘gorgeous’
Egregious!
GIF is pronounced GIF not because the G stands for Graphical, but because it is its essence. It is what is calls out to be… Called.
And because it’s not peanut butter.
And for the same reason, JPEG is pronounced JFEG not because the P stands for Photographic, but because that is the expression of its true essence.
I just didn’t know it before today.
Justice for JΦEG!
Also, “gi” in english makes the hard g sound very often, like in gift, or give, or giddy. You need to do some real mental gymnastics to justify it as a j sound
The giant ginger biologist originally apologized for being allergic to ginseng.
giant, gigantic, ginger, gist, gin, giraffe, gibberish, gingivitis, giblet, giro, giron, gingal, gipsy / gitano, gingili, gigot, girasole, giaour, …
logic, tragic, agile, agism/aging, legit, sigil, magi, magic, argil, algid, aegis, vagile, algin, digit, legible, legislature, surgical, intellegible, …
looks like a lot of palatal affricates to me dawg idk, i think you’re the one doing mental gymnastics trying to justify it not being pronounced the way the creator specified. “gif” the way you ask for just sounds weird
Say the word “gift”. Don’t pronounce the t. Wow. That simple.
Say the word “giraffe”. Don’t pronounce the ra. Wow. That simple.
Yes!
I’ve always been in the “jif” camp.
Now I have a new counter!
What do you fall back to when they just agree that “jay-pheg” is the only reasonable pronunciation?
Guys… guys… can we all just agree that it’s pronounced gif and not gif?
no you fuckwad it’s pronounced gif
Next you’re telling me that LMFAO is called “ellem eff ayo” and not "le mfaao“
Blasphemy. Everyone knows it’s “ellem fay-oh”
Lum phao 👿
The J is pronounced like the J in Jesus (Spanish pronunciation)
👋 feg
Why don’t you just pronounce it “gee-eye-eff”?
Because that way madness lies.
