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Thankfully jifs are pretty much dead
I hope you say jfeg the to be consistent, because that’s how the p in photography is pronounced.
Not if Ianthe has anything to say about it.
Hard G is the only way
Anything else is seeking attention.
Says the person seeking attention.
Someone with a big tiddy anime profile pic couldn’t possibly be doing that
The G in God stands for GIF
My first name starts with a G and it’s soft. Many people will read it and pronounce it hard. This argument is for my identity
Hey, Gerome.
Okay Geoff.
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Moms choose gif
Oh boy let’s have this argument again! Because it’s so much fun every time!
It is funny every time and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.
You cannot know the forbidden truth.
Don’t look for the first pronunciation
Those are some nice jraphics you have there.
I hate this argument, that’s literally what the creators of the format called it. Names of things don’t always follow the rules of English.
Names of things don’t have to follow “the rules of english” to change and morph with who is using them.
Acting like there is any immutable qualities to any language or word is kinda silly.
Currently, with the common opinion split pretty well, the correct answer for how to say it is “‘gif’ or ‘jif’”. Call it whichever you want.
You are right except: there are no rules in english, and this isn’t an argument, its a joke.
That would be valid if it is a name and not an acronym.
Explain how it being an acronym affects the pronunciation?
You know what I think, almost no one ever needs to actually say this word anyway. Anyone who uses them knows what they are and don’t need to talk about them, and if they do it’s just in a quick text chat.
Let’s just agree on asking ChatJPT how it should be pronounced and go with whatever it says?
jay pee tee?
What did the creator of the GIF name them? Imagine if a bunch of people read your name wrong, then when you told them how it’s pronounced said that they don’t care, and your mom was wrong to pronounce your name that way.
Eh, I prefer the descriptivist method of language. It’s how language evolves over time.
Comparing it to a personal name is a false equivalence. GIF is an acronym, people could enunciate each letter if they so preferred and it would be more accurate/true to creation than even the creator’s opinion of how to pronounce it.
It’s not a false equivalence. He named it after the penun butter brand. It was specifically named to be pronounced a certain way.
Oh, okay. That only combats my point about it being a false equivalence. At the end of the day, it’s an acronym.
I see what you’re saying, and to a point I agree. I see it as people reading it a certain way in their head and becoming attached to how they think it should sound. This happens often because English words especially can have all manner of exceptions to the usual rules of spelling and grammar. There is nothing embarrassing about reading, or at least there shouldn’t be. What I DO find embarrassing is when people find out that they’re pronouncing something differently and flat out disagree with the world about its actual pronounciation.
I mean, it’s only embarrassing for them - if they want to be loud, proud, and wrong that’s okay.
But at the same time, they may well set the trend for how it’s pronounced in the future.
Lord knows, waDer (i.e. water) started somewhere…
Edit: I’m guessing I offended someone by implying that saying ‘wadder’ is the wrong way to say water, hahaha.
What I DO find embarrassing is when people find out that they’re pronouncing something differently and flat out disagree with the world about its actual pronounciation.
Man, you must be embarrassed all the time when you hear British or American people talk.
Somehow the world can survive and we can understand one another with very different pronunciations of words like “Aluminum”, but this… THIS WILL NOT STAND!
I just don’t think that usual linguistic rules should apply to a thing that a guy literally invented and named.
The person who invented it gets to name it.
Except he didn’t invent the words used to name what he invented. If he had just named it gif and pronounced it jif and non of those letters stood for anything I would see your point, but he didn’t. He named it graphic interchange format, shortened to gif. That said, who gives a shit pronounce it how you want. Language evolves anyways.
Nobody pronounces it with a hard G because of what the G stands for. Acronyms don’t work like that. They do it because a hard G is more common when starting words in English than a soft one.
Sure, but that doesn’t change anything in my mind. Descriptivism FTW!
You better be consistent, then! Jfeg!
Huh? I don’t follow.
JPHEG
Except… all words are invented by someone, sometime.
Weird how digital images aren’t alive.
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That’s what happened to aluminium. Sir Humphrey Davey came up with aluminum in 1812 but his peers decided it wasn’t classical sounding enough.
He even called it “Alumium” before that, which I think is even better
I refuse to call it anything but Aluminum just for that. I find it insulting to Sir Humphrey Davey that his naming rights were basically stolen by someone completely unrelated.
What did the creator of the GIF name them?
Island was originally spelt without an ‘s’. It was later added as a stylistic choice and is now the “correct” spelling. Language doesn’t give a fuck about original intent. If you want to be originalist about it then you need to hie back to corky English
Oh, you’ve done it now, a-a-ron
How a computer scientist thinks words should be pronounced is not as convincing an argument as so many here seem to think.
