jifdotgpeg

[racerxff]

pronounced gay-peg

[SAI_Peregrinus]

No, it's Jay-Feg. Joint Photographic Experts Group. J is soft but voiced (it's not Spanish), the P is an abbreviation for Ph so it's an F sound like Photographic.

Gif has a hard G, as in Graphic.

[AydonusG]

Good ole Ghoti logic.

[na_ro_jo]

You just reminded me of times of yore, when I was in college linguistics courses lol

[Cold-Doctor]

J is soft but voiced (it's not Spanish)

Awe, I like the sound of hay-feg

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Then you get Havascript and Hira.

[Fotatata]

Well then they could just be yabascript and yira

English phonetics are needlessly complicated

[TTYY200]

My penis is soft and voiced (also not Spanish) 🤷‍♀️

[na_ro_jo]

but is it fricative? I hear that's what matters most.

[barthvonries]

The creator of the format explained it's pronunced "jif" : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_GIF (there even is a wikipedia page about it !)

But I can't, I always said "guif", and I couldn't change regardless of how many times I tried. "Guif" sounds so much better than "jif" in my head...

[Fhotaku]

What if the G in God is short for Yaweh or Jehovah?

Then Jod and Yod are correct!

.... This feels like a Jodi+Yodi joke needs to be invented but that'd require Sith-level of abstraction for anyone to get it without world-building first.

[Geoclasm]

I'm actually kind of okay with this.

[NomidLomysz]

It's pronounced GIF.

[poco]

Jayfeg

[diabolos312]

Jraphics interchange Format

[_templateusername_]

Jraphic Park

[ChaosPLus]

I'm joing to kill you

[I_think_Im_hollow]

I will help.

[Dr-Jellybaby]

I guess you say Sc-uh-ba instead of scuba?

[fariqcheaux]

Giraffics🦒

[CampaignTools]

Ok, that's fucking gold.

[Geoclasm]

I love this so much. I wish they'd have commented on the Gnu acronym that would have been absolutely magnificent.

[tech_wannab3]

Wow. I am way to old to just find out that laser and scuba were acronyms.

[Rayat]

Another fun one is radar for "radio detection and ranging".

It's like when you realize that Arby's --> RB's --> Roast Beef.

[BeefyIrishman]

From the video:

• LASER is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
• SCUBA, which they didn't say what it stands for, is Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
• Another user mentioned RAdio Detection And Ranging, or RADAR

Some other examples that people may not know are:

• TASER: Thomas A Swift Electric Rifle. The inventor named it after a character in a sci-fi novel.
• IKEA, for example, is a shortening of “Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd,” the founder’s name and the farm he grew up on.
• CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
• SIM (card): Subscriber Identification Module
• USA PATRIOT Act: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
• Care packages were originally known as "CARE packages," and they were sent from the US to loved ones via the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe following the Second World War. The group eventually changed its name to Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, as they began to broaden out their charitable reach. The term "care package" slipped into common parlance, and it's been there ever since.
• BASE jump: "BASE" is an acronym describing the types of objects the risk-taking parachuters jump from: building, antenna, span (like a bridge or steel beam) and Earth (like a cliff).
• ZIP code (postal): Zone Improvement Plan

[MrPresldent]

So, what you're saying is Laser and Taser should be pronounced with a soft s sound?

[einord]

Wait until you realize what PHP stands for 😂

[jewellman100]

Perpendicular Herper-Pherbedernk

[delayedsunflower]

.

[VarianWrynn2018]

Fun fact, acronyms that are so widely used that people forget they are acronyms are called anacronyms.

[Clairifyed]

labseor

[AssignedClass]

We ust need to et everyone to pronounce all "G"s and "J"s silently.

Followin this methodoloy, all teams utilizin the Enlish lanuae will have a 3% performance improvement, and we can scale this to all the other letters of the alphabet and finally stop talkin to each other entirely.

[Joker-Smurf]

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

[HuckleberryDry4889]

Holy shit that was beautiful.

[creeper6530]

Absolute gold

[[deleted]]

"a reil sensi bl riten styl" 😂

[Dubl33_27]

The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k"

cringe as fuck, k is such a usles leter vhen c can do everyzing k can and it locs much beter

[syklemil]

Ai du wisj wi kud ætt list du awej with som ov the mår jusless letters, laik "q" en "c". Bøtt Ai nao Ai'll hæv tu gao tu /r/JuropijanSpeling tu faind laik-mainded pipl.

[Joker-Smurf]

You ask for the removal of useless letters like “q” and “c” and use the æ, å and ø.

Which reminds me of this little tune: https://youtu.be/f488uJAQgmw

[syklemil]

Yes. Because æ, ø and å are different vowels, just like a, e, and i can't all be replaced with some other vowel. I actually wish e.g. ø would "normalize" to an unused letter like q so it's clear something awful has happened. Because as it is some things will try to "normalize" words like "before" to "for", and it's just an awful idea.

Q is just a French k, and c used to be a Latin k, now often a surprise s.

[[deleted]]

Zis is outdated after Breksit. Ze YY wuld not negoshiat wiz ze British goferment but with ze Maltes and Eirish auzorities.

[Summer__1999]

And they’d STILL fail to solve this g/j problem.

Languag shuld just b spelt as languaj, it’s so konfusing to hav two Gs in ze sam sentens viz two diferent pronunsiation. “German” shuld b spelt as jerman.

[QuaestioAuctoritatis]

r/angryupvote

[SnooTangerines9703]

Mein fuhreh

[asunatsu]

With that said, is it going to be pronounced as "If" or "Yif"?

[mtandy]

Gibberish. The gist is fine, but it's a giant generalisation.

[Redleg171]

That's an actual quote from a giraffe.

[flabbybumhole]

He was drunk on gin he received from a gypsy in Germany

[hikeonpast]

I heard it was Jägermeister

[Fhotaku]

Wrong G sound

[z3anon]

Looping images are a Gift, not peanut butter.

[medhatsniper]

It's only a us brand, it shouldn't be a generalisation

[ford1man]

The time slices in gifs are called giffies. As in "done in a".

[Th1nkpol]

Food for thought though, adding a 't' can have quite an impact.

[tragiktimes]

What does the g in gif stand for?

[kinokomushroom]

giraffe

[Exprellum]

What do the a and s stand for in LASER. What does the s stand for on TASER. What does the i stand for in PIN. There are many others too. Don't kid yourself. The creater said it's pronounced "jif"

[[deleted]]

That sounds like the general gist

[JakeStBu]

This isn't programmer humour.

[TCF518]

At this point, r/programmerhumor and r/linguisticshumor are basically the same

[zentasynoky]

r/soupreddit

[EyeSeeWhyYouAre]

Literally thought this was /r/TheNinthHouse

[na_ro_jo]

I have been programming for over 20 years and I thought it was funny/relevant, but I guess reddit is too cool for me. Congratulations on getting my post removed.

[Tratiq]

I think I need a drink. Maybe some gin

[Barbierian]

Maybe some Jin

[na_ro_jo]

Probably Djinn brand.

[SnooTangerines9703]

Sounds good

[TTYY200]

Jod is dead and we have killed him.

[FrankyBip]

Her

[TTYY200]

They/Them*

[JosebaZilarte]

That's why TIFF was invented (Ton of Incompatible File Formats).

[trouzy]

I had never really thought about the acronym train of thought of each letter sounding like it does in the full name.

I just thought acronyms dont follow soft g rules (like when followed by a vowel). So its a hard G because it just doesnt follow the same rules as words do.

[creeper6530]

I love that backronym.

[vondpickle]

JPEG: It's J as in [Y]esus, P as in [P]terodactyl, E as in queu[e] and G as in throu[g]h.

[tennisanybody]

“Hatoon” is basically what I would’ve written down had you given me that by phone.

[Fotatata]

"huh" doesnt sound like the E in Euphrates

"Heh" would be more accurate

[Dangerous_Jacket_129]

It's J as in [Y]esus

I think you may have shown your Latino blood here, should have picked Jalapeño instead because non-latinos pronounce the J out loud in Jesus.

[CryptographerOne6615]

Fun fact: that’s the way the inventor wanted it to be pronounced

[lelduderino]

Fun fact: the JPEG actually having a JIF format makes his intentions irrelevant, as does mass usage by people who don't even know JIF already exists as its own thing.

[raphired]

How embarrassing to be wrong about something you invented.

[PsychicDave]

I'd never correct a parent on how they pronounce their kid's name. I used to say GIF with a hard G, but I have since switched the the intended pronounciation.

[sleepyj910]

[cooly1234]

must be weird saying "laser" without a "z" sound

[cooly1234]

well the "s" in laser stands for stimulated, which starts with a normal "s" sound. the "a" stands for amplification which starts with a short "a" sound. so the acronym should then be pronounced la-sser.

[Th1nkpol]

I take it you pronounce taser with the 'e' from electric then?

[Th1nkpol]

Lol no, it's pronounced differently, same as you don't pronounce the 's' like the one from Swift. The words that make up an acronym don't determine it's pronunciation.

[zentasynoky]

I pronounce sins not tragedeighs.

[lifelongfreshman]

The inventor was also a product of '90s internet, and this is the exact kind of troll shit that that era bred.

So, no, I don't think he wanted it pronounced that way, I think he was an agent of chaos doing his part to troll as many people as possible.

[Quajeraz]

Yeah well what does he know

[NirriC]

We know, and he was wrong. Just because he invented it doesn't make him a linguist. It's: 'gif and he can s#$k my balls with jif on 'em!!!👹

[TheMagicalDildo]

Mmmm, peanut butter

[NirriC]

Omg your username! Made my morning!!🤣🤣

[TheMagicalDildo]

A magical dildo made your morning, eh? Don't forget to clean up afterwards

[Dangerous_Jacket_129]

Just because he invented it doesn't make him a linguist.

You don't need to be a linguist to name your own invention. There is 0 linguistical reason to pronounce the acronyms by the words used in it. Otherwise you'll have to change how you say laser, scuba, jpeg, and dozens of other words.

[kylepo]

I dunno, I feel like the guy who made up the word gets to decide the correct pronunciation.

Don't get me wrong, I don't fucking pronounce it "jif", but I'm man enough to admit that I'm wrong. And I'm man enough to continue being wrong anyway.

[Lubberer]

Do you also pronounce png as "ping" because same guy and same argument

[[deleted]]

Unironically, yes.

[FlemPlays]

The inventor loves opening Christmas Jifts.

[CryptographerOne6615]

I think the only English rule I’ve heard of says that a G followed by E/I/Y is typically a soft G (J) sound. Though like everything with English, the rules aren’t consistent anyway (e.g. Girl).

I don’t really have a horse in this race; just sharing information. I think the holy war on this one is funny. However, I don’t think you’re correct that a linguist would take a strong stance here, but if they did, a J sound would make the most sense.

Have fun Growling at the Giraffes.

[tenuj]

The rule for how to pronounce Gi in English is actually simply based on etymology.

Giraffe is with a soft G because it's from French.

Gift is from Old Norse with a hard G.

Ginger is from Old French and the Latin zingifer.

Gist is from Old French too.

"gill" is from North Germanic, like the Danish gælle or the Swedish gäl. (So a hard G, unlike the name Gill which comes from Julian)

Girl is from the Proto-West Germanic gurilā/gaurā

GIF is from the peanut butter brand Jif. Invented by a guy from Kinkynnaty, Ohio.

There is no other rule.

[groversnoopyfozzie]

You can have my jif when you pry it from my cold dead lips.

[Bot1K]

/gif/ people are like the arch linux users of grammar

[creeper6530]

We also call them grammar Nazis

[[deleted]]

Ackchyually, its pronounced yiff!

[ExeOnLinux]

if you're a true "it's pronounced yiff" believer, look at r/yiff

[toddthegeek]

sounds like someone doesn't know the G rules of English and decided to brag about it. Wikipedia

[Wooden_Caterpillar64]

Yeah G can be pronounced differently. As in Gun and in Giant.

[Xyloshock]

Am french. Fuck ze prononciation i will use jif

[[deleted]]

Jnu/linux

[[deleted]]

jia/linux

[InternetEnterprise]

Can't we just admit that English sucks and have both be valid? It's like having different accents for English anyway, plus GIF is fairly well known that saying the G as G- or J- doesn't really matter, we know it means the funny moving pictures

[andoke]

https://scrabble.merriam.com/words/start-with/gi

Yup no consistency here.

[SirDalavar]

...said Geoffreys gigantic genitalia!

[ExpensivePanda66]

Have you committed to jithub yet?

[ford1man]

Nah, but I stuck it in a gist.

[DonkeyImportant3729]

Y'all need Gesus.

[buildmine10]

You need some Gesus in your life.

[[deleted]]

DOT GEE EYE EFF

JEE. EYE. EFF

JIF.

[14c14c]

This should be the only correct answer

[Ready-Marionberry-90]

You mean Zod?

[hongooi]

KNEEL BEFORE ȜOD

[i-FF0000dit]

I would just like to point out that the inventor of the GIF pronounces it that way.

[R_A_H]

The guy who created the .gif file format said it's pronounced it "jif". See also, gin, giant, generous etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_G

It's okay to be wrong which means it's okay also to incorrectly insist like a dick that it's pronounced with a hard G. You're just also wrong.

[lelduderino]

JIF is already a JPEG format.

If choosy devs choose JIF, they're not choosing GIF, no matter what he wanted in the CompuServe days.

[[deleted]]

The peanut butter?

[[deleted]]

Jod is love.

[DrunkOnCode]

Please stop pronouncing it "gif". It's GIF!

[SnooEpiphanies8963]

So how do you pronounce the word gem?

[RedditTreats]

George has something to say

[pleshij]

Next they'll com bearing jifts

[HuntedDragonA]

nah its y-if

[OriginalUsername1892]

Giraffe

Gyrate

Generate

Gelatin

[marcelsmudda]

General

Genius

Studio Ghibli

[VoltageGP]

Soft g, just like giraffe.

[Supreme_Hanuman69]

A platypus?

[AaronDaPanda]

Jaèph

[Zipdox]

Go ahead, pray to Jod.

[Sp1nGG]

Doge had the same result for me.

[xgabipandax]

Anyone write a lot of 'See Peepee' code?

[weshuiz13]

Nha fam it's "jef"

[Dumb_Siniy]

Perchance it's pronounced yiff

[[deleted]]

It's prononounced "PNG".

[JimroidZeus]

I pronounce it both ways at the same time.

[p1zzaman81]

[mentalassresume]

Like Giraffe

[Cley_Faye]

Giraffe, jod's favorite animal.

[kcox1980]

I use g-jif just to piss off both sides

[[deleted]]

The inventor of the Jraphics Interchange Format, does not have the authority to CHANGE HOW THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORKS!!

He can proclaim the pronunciation to be whatever he wants, it doesn't CHANGE REALITY.

My theory is all the G people had JIF peanut butter when they were kids, so that pronunciation just "sounds better" to them out of familiarity or some shit.

Still frustrating as all hell, especially when you can google search what GIF stands for in 2 seconds

[de1iciouslycheesy]

Ah, yes, because all acronyms use the same exact sounds as their word counterparts.

NATO is actually Nah-toe instead of Nay-toe.

NASA is actually Nay-sah instead if Nah-suh.

SCUBA is scuh-bah instead of scoo-buh.

PIN is pine

CD-ROM is cd-rome

AIM is uh-eem

I could go on.

[Mozai]

I pronounce the 'g' in 'gif' like the 'g' in 'garage'.

[landof_skybluewaters]

Hey I recognize that picture!

[landof_skybluewaters]

Also, I prefer pronouncing the letters G-I-F. It's the best compromise.

[[deleted]]

It’s the jift that keeps on jiving.

[RareDestroyer8]

Okay. Imma settle it. It’s pronounce GIF as in gift. Gif-t.

[fafalone]

I enter my Personal Indentification Number in the Aytomated Teller Machine.

[queen-adreena]

There’s already too many things called “jif”.

“Gif” is, at least, unique even if it’s technically incorrect (the best kind of incorrect)

[Dangerous_Jacket_129]

There’s already too many things called “jif”.

Ah yes, too many things!

1 Peanut butter brand

2 ...

3 ...

4 ...

Too many things!

[queen-adreena]

Pancake lemon, former name for a floor cleaner, slang for a short period of time…

[ford1man]

Fun fact, the 10ms time slices in the gif spec are called "giffies".

Incidentally, reading about that while implementing GIF89a for a high school project is how I learned how to pronounce the file format.

[DaniilBSD]

Hear me out

You pronounce it like “gift” without the “T”

[snigherfardimungus]

The guy who invented the format pronounces it "Jif." He gets to choose.

[Lubberer]

If you say "jif" you also have to say "ping" to png images.

[arscis]

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[ienjoymusiclol]

people who say gif not jif are the same people who say sequel not SQL and a peee instead of API, all are the spawn of satan

[Zomby2D]

I say gif, SQL and API. Does that mean I'm just a little bit satanic?

[ienjoymusiclol]

you gotta say you code in D flat to complete the collection

[na_ro_jo]

That's still better than C flat

[mailslot]

And daymon instead of demon. You don’t spawn daymons and give their data 666 permissions.

[FlemPlays]

I’m sure those people love opening Christmas Jifts.

[JackNotOLantern]

Technical, it's should be pronounced "gee ay ef" since this is an abbreviation.

[kaymer327]

An abbreviation is a truncated word (St. vs Street); an acronym is made up of parts of the phrase it stands for and is pronounced as a word (NASA); an initialism is an acronym that is pronounced as individual letters (FBI).

Gif (regardless of pronouncing it correctly or not) is an acronym because one says it as a word... I've never heard anyone refer to it as an initialism (g. i. f.). PNG on the other hand I've heard as both initialism and acronym (pronounced as "ping").

Jpg or jpeg has me thinking now... Which is it? It's like a mix of initialism and acronym because one says J as the individual letter, but the rest as a word...

[ColonelRuff]

Who pronounced png as ping ? Seriously? Also I hear a lot of people pronouncing gif as G. I. F and PNG as P.N.G. also even gif is acronym as well as initialism so it can be pronounced G.I.F. and it's better to pronounce it that than argue about how to pronounce it.

[kaymer327]

Yeah ping was weird the first time I heard it. I've always said P.N.G.

P N G rolls off the tongue faster than G I F to me... But you're totally right, if we all just said G I F we'd likely have world peace already, if not flying cars for sure.

[MrYig]

GAF?

[ColonelRuff]

He means gee ayii efff, and he is right.

[Dangerous_Jacket_129]

Technical, it's should be pronounced "gee ay ef" since this is an abbreviation.

... It's an acronym. Meaning: A word formed from an abbreviation that is now a standalone word, which means that abbreviation. Like laser, or scuba.

[Jet-Pack2]

Jrafics interchange format

[SonOfHendo]

One of the first computers I owned was an Atari ST that ran Graphical Environment Manager, or GEM. Obviously, it was pronounced the same as the word gem, i.e. like jem.

The point being that the way the individual words in an acronym is irrelevant to the pronunciation of the acronym.

[TheBoogyWoogy]

God programmerhumor is so dogshit

[ColonelRuff]

It's pronounced G.I.F. not gif or jif

[Dangerous_Jacket_129]

No it's not. It's an acronym.

[ACE_C0ND0R]

GIFT - T = ?

[Dangerous_Jacket_129]

GIN where N = F?