I will face Jod and walk backward into hell before I say "jiff"
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Like the G in "gigantic".
And "gigolo."
I was devastated to learn the creators intended it to be pronounced "jif" like the peanut butter brand
Yeah, because it's a jraphical interface format.
So do you say j-feg? Because the p stands for photographic
One of the common nonsensical arguments heard. What's the next one?
Giraffical
One of the few times I don't care what the creator says, he was wrong.
And yet your mind knows it's not possible for him to be wrong since he named it.
Me too. I feel like no one pronounced it jif before they said that, and now we have to have an eternal debate over it
That’s literally how every programmer pronounced it before it became an Internet sensation. It had a marketing campaign to “sell” the format because that’s how new standards were created initially. They explicitly chose to name it after the peanut butter because it allowed them to give it a catchy phrase to sell it even better “choosy developers choose gif”.
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Jraphic interface format really sounds right /s
Let me just get my Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus ready /s
Light aimplification by ztimulated emission of radiation just has a nice ring to it /s
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National Aeronautics and Space Uhdministration /s
Yiff
Um, I don't know how to tell you, but that means a wiiiildly different thing. 🤣
Why do people have to pronounced it in any way? Why not say G-I-F? I've been saying it like that since before I knew about the huge debate💀
Cuz the devs explicitly named it after the peanut butter and even gave it a catchphrase to make sure you pronounced it correctly. It was a marketing campaign. “Choosy developers choose gif”.
How do you pronounce JIF, then? (That's the JPEG Interchange Format.)
The same way? There’s thousands of words in the English language with the same pronunciation and different spellings. This isn’t the dunk you think it is.
Besides, gif existed first. If JIF wanted to use the name without confusion maybe they should have come out first (missed it by half a decade) or come up with a catchy phrase.
Gif, clearly.
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Gif, the jift that keeps on jivving.
Pronounced it as a soft g in my head the first time I read it, and years later the creator said it was meant to be a soft g, so I feel validated.
When you create an image format, name it whatever you want and if it's any good and I use it, I'll call it what you want
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I take the third route and pronounce it Heef, as in Spanish
oh that's easy, it's "dot gif"
Hard G. It's “Graphics Interchange Format”, not “Jraphics Interchange Format”.
Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?
Now, while pronouncing "G", close your lips to make the sound "G-if".
There you have it, how to pronounce "Gif".
Ps: honestly, That just popped up in my head a moment ago and I'm just trying to troll, wholeheartedly I believe it is hard-G as in Graphics.
Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?
According to wikipedia the phonetic usage includes:
[g]
[d͡ʒ]
[ʒ]
[ŋ]
[j]
[ɣ~ʝ]
[x~χ]
[d͡z]
[ɟ]
[k]
[ɠ]
[ɢ]
/dʒiː/
For English pronunciation it lists:
/dʒ/
/ɡ/
/ʒ/ and
silent
Does that mean you also pronounce scuba sku•ba instead of skoo•bah? Because that U stands for Underwater not OOnderwater. And what about Jpeg? Shouldn't it be Jeg because the P in photographic is silent.
Or jfeg because photography has an f sound.
It's soft g gif. Because the original joke was choosy moms choose jif, and choosy web developers choose gif.
.jeff
I have a friend named Geoff who says gif with a hard G. I like to pronounce his name with a hard G after that. Geff.
the correct answer is hard-g soft-g ee ef ef: ggi F.F.
The ancient Arcadians actually pronounced it .flif
Whatever causes the asker to have the biggest breakdown at the time!
"4G-LTE"? Well that's 'Forgull'ty'
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