The only thing I know about this is that it's unnecessary to start another "internet war" over how someone pronounced terms like this one, since both pronunciation are recognizable (even my friends often spelled in with different results thanks to their accents and our local language too)
Well that makes no sense. If your view is that "it's an acronym or it isn't" then you pronounce it as individual letters or as a word. But the reality of language is much messier than arbitrary rules people come up with. If people pronounce it as if it's a word in its own right, that means that's how it works. Just as with laws of physics, if what we observe contradicts the rule, the rule was wrong.
Also the creator of the format attempted to troll people by saying it's officially pronounced "jiff", and it's taken as truth by the gullible and the people who believe that if you create something, you should be able to control what people call it (even if it defies logic).
I agree that the manner this was presented at the 2013 Webbys, which kickstarted the debate, was jokingly, but the specifications have always recommended "jiff" since the format's inception, though also a bit jokingly:
Wilhite and the team who developed the file format included in the technical specifications that the acronym was to be pronounced with a soft g. In the specifications, the team wrote that "choosy programmers choose ... 'jif'", in homage to the peanut butter company Jif's advertising slogan of "choosy moms choose Jif".[3]
58 Comments
sudoku@programming.dev · 72 pts · 341d
g as in gif
ceenote@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 341d
Wrong, it's pronounced "gif"
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 341d
g as in genuine ginormous gendered giraffes gesticulating gingerly
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 340d
'G' as in "Gary my guy, it's great you have the guts to be wrong again!"
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 339d
general gibberish
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 339d
generous genecologically German genies generated gelatinous genitals
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 339d
colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 340d
g as in gnome
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 1 pts · 341d
I wish it was gnuf
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 341d
Ambiance6195@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 341d
How dare you come here with this blasphemy.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 24 pts · 341d
Looks like Wikipedia decided to let the users battle it out since they have both listed. Both the right and the wrong way.
My opinion, I always use a hard F.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 341d
wow, they used to use the hard F on Family guy?
hash@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 341d
FUCK ALL Y'ALL 'JIF' MOTHERFUCKERS
Kinokoloko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 341d
How do you pronounce laser
huquad@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 341d
Hard R
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 341d
jaser
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 5 pts · 341d
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 341d
There are several arguments for why it should be pronounced a given way and OP didn't say any of them.
I see you just picked your favorite to argue against.
TeddE@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d
They'll bend over in a jiffy.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social · 13 pts · 342d
Pronounced 'chief.'
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 341d
More like Gee-f
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 341d
Gief
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 341d
Okay, so like a GIF Wrangler
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 341d
Like Ask Jeeves but with a ffff
capt_wolf@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 341d
Piss off both sides and just spell it. G.I.F.
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 341d
The notorious G I F
scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 5 pts · 341d
I feel like that's a win for hard G honestly.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 341d
But the letter "G" has a soft "g" in its pronunciation. Otherwise, you're talking about clarified butter.
workerONE@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 341d
The letter G is pronounced Jee, with a J sound. Not Gee
Grimy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 341d
Just say the full name outright: "Graphically Integrated Framework"
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 341d
GIF
"Gee Eye Eff"
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 341d
I got real self righteous there for a second, but i see they included the wrong pronunciation as well
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d
i've forgotten most of my IPA so this is really helpful
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 341d
Enough IPA and I tend to forget things as well.
rdri@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d
I first read that as a hitman image format.
NovaSel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 341d
Me on mobile: Huh, interesting...
Babalugats@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 341d
Giraffe-ic Interchange Format.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 340d
Weird that they don't have the pronunciation listed for giraffe the same way
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe
MadnessForTsar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 341d
The only thing I know about this is that it's unnecessary to start another "internet war" over how someone pronounced terms like this one, since both pronunciation are recognizable (even my friends often spelled in with different results thanks to their accents and our local language too)
njm1314@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d
Are they always wrong though?
everett@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 341d
This also generally works wherever you see a dotted underline.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 341d
monogram@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 341d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d
yeah well jayphegg yourself buddy
monogram@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 340d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d
well okay i guess i'll send the cookout invitation to OOP then
monogram@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 339d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 339d
i mean if you came we could throw a Haskell on the barbie. sorry friend, buddies only at the cookout.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 341d
monogram@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 341d
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 341d
I pronounce that as gay peg
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 341d
You must make a lot of new friends.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d
at the leather store, yes
jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 341d
can@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 341d
Meaning?
jbrains@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 341d
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org · 2 pts · 341d
Well that makes no sense. If your view is that "it's an acronym or it isn't" then you pronounce it as individual letters or as a word. But the reality of language is much messier than arbitrary rules people come up with. If people pronounce it as if it's a word in its own right, that means that's how it works. Just as with laws of physics, if what we observe contradicts the rule, the rule was wrong.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 341d
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 341d
Right. That's why people naturally started pronouncing it with a hard 'g' to begin with...
can@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 341d
What rule? I just go by what I read in the 90s about what the creators thought.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 341d
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 341d
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 341d
Acronyms are abbreviations. Maybe you mean an initialism?
jbrains@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 341d
tpihkal@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d
Why do they list an incorrect pronunciation?
otp@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 341d
To stop the edit wars.
Also the creator of the format attempted to troll people by saying it's officially pronounced "jiff", and it's taken as truth by the gullible and the people who believe that if you create something, you should be able to control what people call it (even if it defies logic).
tpihkal@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 341d
*"Jeff"
Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 340d
I agree that the manner this was presented at the 2013 Webbys, which kickstarted the debate, was jokingly, but the specifications have always recommended "jiff" since the format's inception, though also a bit jokingly:
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d
If that’s not divisive in today’s political climate, I don’t know what is.
/scalisti@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 340d
Anything with a dotted underline is canonically meant to be hovered to show a tooltip.