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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's pronounced with a hard J because a soft GIF is just the post deed version of GILF...

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

Git is now pronounced Jit.

JIT, as in the compiler architecture, is now pronounced Git.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's pronounced Gif, with a soft G as in Graphics.

I don't give a fuck what the idiot creator thinks it should be pronounced as, I'll die on this hill with my honor intact, surrounded by the corpses of everyone who thinks Jif is referring to anything but peanut butter.

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

Jif is a cleaning product

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You say soft g when you mean hard g. Hard g's include GOAT, game, dragon, and gangster. And gif.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All of this could be solved if English weren't a shit language with incoherent phonemes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

All this could be solved if people would accept that English changes over time and if defined by usage and understanding.

If people easily understand what I mean when I say gif then I have pronounced it correctly. Same as if people understand what I mean if I use "literally" to mean "figuratively" or spell "island" with an 's' despite it having no Latin roots.

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

And if u spel werds liek this and r stil understud is it kerect?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If it impedes understanding and causes to person you're talking to take more time and/or effort to understand the message you are trying to convey then it is incorrect.

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

So r u saying that writing "are" and "you" that way is correct? Because I'm pretty sure it doesn't impede understanding in the slightest.

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

Guys.. guys... can we all just agree that it's pronounced gif and not gif?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Helen wears socks and sandals, and has divergent opinions. Helen needs to disappear in a landfill. Dispatching a team.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm definitely not taking any lessons from someone who wears socks with sandals no matter their credentials.

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

As a German, I feel personally attacked by this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

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

Say the word "gift". Don't pronounce the t. Wow. That simple.

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

Say the word "giraffe". Don't pronounce the ra. Wow. That simple.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sure, I'll have some.

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

Not sure if the use of the word "gymnastics" is intentional here

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

I'm not taking about gy or ge, I'm talking about gi

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

The giant ginger biologist originally apologized for being allergic to ginseng.

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