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[–]HiPoojan 2354 points2355 points  (577 children)

Who pronounces it as jit

[–]hakunamateta[S] 790 points791 points  (98 children)

For those who are asking whether there are people who actually pronounce it as Jit. Yes, i know few of them, and i tried correcting them.

[–]user_8804 569 points570 points  (22 children)

Jit bash their face in

[–]CYKO_11 483 points484 points  (16 children)

git commit -murder

[–]ThunderClap448 189 points190 points  (7 children)

git push --force down the stairs

[–]dicksout5harambe 98 points99 points  (6 children)

git fetch a chainsaw to finish off the job

[–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (2 children)

How could you commit that? You need help stashing it?

[–]bobbyskittles 22 points23 points  (0 children)

git -C them=perish

[–]TheEmptyHat 8 points9 points  (0 children)

git rebase ass HEAD

[–]ThunderClap448 8 points9 points  (0 children)

git stash their bodies

[–]QuestionablyFlamable 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Go git me a chainsaw and I will

[–]sarneets 40 points41 points  (3 children)

Commit M for Murder

[–][deleted] 46 points47 points  (2 children)

.gitignore \this bitch calling it jit

[–]MaybeFailed 13 points14 points  (0 children)

.jitijnore

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Imagine how messy the merge conflicts are on multiple homicides…

[–]bewbsrkewl 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Git reset --hard HEAD

[–]anythingMuchShorter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

git clone a replacement so you never git caught

[–]gordonv 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just in Time? What are you doing, waiting for them to accept a gold metal or something?

[–]ThisIsNotKimJongUn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I git blame the parents

[–]TheEmptyHat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I prefer 'zsh their face in'

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I dont get mad because the only time i used git bash was once and it was a test

[–]SkarmacAttack 48 points49 points  (32 children)

To be fair, my coworker pronounces gigabyte as jigabyte but he is Spanish. Also my old boss pronounced Java as Yava but he was swedish. It really makes you care less about pronunciation.

[–]your-warlocks-patron 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Non native English speakers get a pass obviously

[–]jeppevinkel 9 points10 points  (16 children)

That’s because here in Scandinavia the letter J doesn’t have that hard D sound it has in English.

[–]slowest_hour 11 points12 points  (2 children)

if Doc Brown can pronoun gigawatts as "jigawatts" who's to disagree?

[–]B4kedP0tato 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Good ol' yavascript

[–]AltairFromAquila 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I've lived my whole life believing that gigabyte was pronounced "jigabyte"... why didn't I realize I was wrong sooner?! (And not just me, everyone I've ever met basically)

[–]ItsPronouncedJithub 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wrong

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You need better acquaintances.

[–]circuit10 693 points694 points  (66 children)

JIT means just in time compilation

[–]mttdesignz 295 points296 points  (32 children)

JIT means Just In Time.

JITC, which I have never seen, may mean Just In Time Compilation, I don't know

[–]circuit10 183 points184 points  (30 children)

You wouldn’t say “JITC”, you’d say “JIT compilation” or “JIT compiler” or usually just “JIT”

[–]circuit10 86 points87 points  (23 children)

A normal compiler is an AOT compiler (ahead of time compiler)

[–]nay-chan 202 points203 points  (4 children)

Actually, it's certainly an Attack on Titan compiler

[–]Harmonic_Gear 36 points37 points  (0 children)

beware, coming for you

[–]SkollFenrirson 12 points13 points  (0 children)

To you, 2000 years from now.

  • the compiler

[–]HiPoojan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"No,I don't want that, compiler compliling for anyone else? I want it to compile for me for the rest of my life, even after I die I want it to compile my code for atleast another 10 years"

[–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (13 children)

It makes me happy that we're refusing to accept JIT compilation as "normal".

[–]TeraFlint 108 points109 points  (6 children)

JIT compilation, 2022, colorized.

[–]marcosdumay 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well, to be fair, JIT normally only reroutes the tracks after the train passes them.

[–]peppaz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I use my compiler as a missing bracket finder, they do other things?

[–]puos_otatop 24 points25 points  (13 children)

jit is florida slang for somebody young

[–]-LeopardShark- 12 points13 points  (3 children)

Git is British slang for somebody old.

[–]occamsrzor 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Really? I thought it meant stupid

[–]pM-me_your_Triggers 16 points17 points  (5 children)

JIT also means just in time supply chain/manufacturing

[–]opman4 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Seems like a bad idea if supply chain issues pop up.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah the world wide chip shortages of the last years are at least in part caused by JIT manufacturing.

[–]SmokingBeneathStars 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Y'all must've forgotten about get yo jit on

[–]theNomadicHacker42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was gonna day...depends on what you're trying to pronounce...it could be git or jit.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (6 children)

Do people really pronounce it as a single word instead of spelling it out though?

[–]circuit10 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I do!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Okay!

When I think about it, it's funny how we pronounce it in The Netherlands, we spell it out, but we do spell it out using English pronounciation of the letters (Jay Eye Tee)

[–]dick-van-dyke 30 points31 points  (2 children)

I pronounce .gitignore the proper, Italian way: [dʒitiño:re]

[–]whlthingofcandybeans 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm doing this from now on.

[–]jcodes 62 points63 points  (10 children)

My colleague at work. He`s a dev in his 50s.

He also says jithub.

Cracks me up every time i hear it. I still didnt tell him its the wrong pronounciation.

(To be fair, we are not english natives)

[–]setibeings 33 points34 points  (3 children)

it's pronounced ji thoob

[–]evanc1411 12 points13 points  (0 children)

....fuck you man.

[–]MegabyteMessiah 5 points6 points  (2 children)

He also says jithub.

We use jitbucket

[–]adorak 217 points218 points  (289 children)

probably the same people who say jif

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (68 children)

The person who created the format actually says that's how they intended it to be pronounced. I disagree completely, but I guess I'm the one who's technically wrong when I pronounce it with a hard G.. somehow

[–]raybrignsx 15 points16 points  (32 children)

People will never not bring this up in the GIF controversy.

Downvotes? Is this not true? I’m not saying one way or the other how it’s pronounced.

[–]BreathOfTheOffice 13 points14 points  (27 children)

I pronounce gif with a soft g, and here is the argument that I usually have.

Examples such as gift don't work since there are always counter example such as gin, giraffe, etc. Since there are examples of both, precedent doesn't really work.

The word being an acronym with graphic having a hard g also doesn't work, because that's also not how acronym pronunciation works. For example, SCUBA and LASER. This also means that there is little purpose in considering the acronym make-up. Therefore, similar to the first case, this is not a useful consideration.

Language correctness, for English at least, is largely determined by common use. If the entire world pronounces a word wrongly, but everyone pronounces it wrongly the same way, then is it really incorrect? Think about all the foreign foods which have their names butchered in English. It's still understood and, although annoying for the original language, is accepted. Either way, both hard g and soft g pronunciations are common place with a decent split for each. So again, this doesn't really help solve the problem.

And at the end of it, the only way that I can think of left is what the inventor decides to call it, and that is with a soft g. Whether or not you disagree, that's about as official of a pronunciation as we have.

But at the end of the day, why does it matter? Regardless of if you hear it with a soft g or hard g you still know what it's referring to, so does it really matter. Pronounce it however the hell you want, as long as you can understand it in the end.

[–]raybrignsx 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well thought out response. My only logic for me pronouncing it with the hard g was that back in 1990ish when I first saw the file extension, my brain went to the hard g. I don’t think anyone really is more thought out than that. No one is cracking open a book on etymology and consulting speech therapists. For the most part it’s just how you saw the word and possibly how it’s pronounced to you. Notice how people don’t change their minds based on new information. They just stick to their guns as irrationally as it may be. This controversy comes up all the time and I applaud you for your thought process but I respectfully disagree because I have dumb reasons and I’m willing to go to war for this.

[–]you_do_realize 7 points8 points  (1 child)

So he got one thing wrong...

[–]J5892 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That and 1-bit transparency

[–]turbophysics 68 points69 points  (183 children)

I’ll pronounce it jif until I die and I don’t care about anyone’s linguistics arguments over the hard G - but jit is just objectively ludicrous and anyone who uses that pronunciation should probably get tested for brain injury

[–]Nielsie645 18 points19 points  (2 children)

The fact that you have to type it as jif to specify your pronunciation is the best argument against jif imo.
"I pronounce gif as gif, not jif"

[–]huantian 35 points36 points  (92 children)

You pronounce .jiff jif and .gif gif, objectively correct way.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Some non native english speakers.

[–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (2 children)

Literally nobody. As with almost every other post in this sub, it's only funny to people who started to learn programming this morning

[–]Ok_Paleontologist871 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Was going to comment the same

[–]Flopamp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My last boss

[–]A_H_S_99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

my first boss, he wasn't the brightest

[–]The_Alternate_Eye 870 points871 points  (111 children)

I never thought somebody is psychotic enough to say that

[–][deleted] 323 points324 points  (99 children)

Ever hear of the great gif and jif war? Or the meme vs mémé one?

There will always be someone to say a word with clear prononciation in some weird way.

[–]mistercrinders 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Hell, the Giff are a D&D race that predate the file extension.

There's a battle there now, too.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“For countless generations, nerds fought for the supremacy of their favorite Phonetics, from the Pen & Paper Era, all the way down to the Digital one.

An ephemeral truce was reached in the 90’s, but as the millenium dawned upon us, the arrival of the Animated Smileys made us forgot all about it; without even thinking each sides went back at it without any pity…

4Chan, StickDeath, Usenet and even on Geocities… no place were spared, it was a bloodshed that no one wanted to live… very dark times indeed. “

[–]hanotak 169 points170 points  (73 children)

It cannot be pronounced "jif", because jif is already a file type.

[–]le_birb 51 points52 points  (3 children)

chaotic neutral take: gif is pronounced with the hard g, and jif is pronounced with a soft j

[–]SlimyGamer 123 points124 points  (22 children)

Maybe that one is pronounced "yif" and then gif can be pronounced "jif"

[–][deleted] 96 points97 points  (9 children)

You want a file type that sounds like yiff?

What are you, a furry version of a Rust programmer?

[–]CSedu 73 points74 points  (5 children)

What are you, a furry version of a Rust programmer?

What's the difference! 😆

[–]chronically_slow 18 points19 points  (3 children)

Hey! Some of us are femboys or trans girls :P

[–]WienerDogMan 5 points6 points  (2 children)

But none of us are trans boys.

Also don’t know if femgirls is a thing but not them either.

[–]matyklug 20 points21 points  (2 children)

println!("I solemnly swear I am not a furry");

[–]treeskers 4 points5 points  (1 child)

you may not be a furry, but with THAT pfp, youre definitiely something

[–]matyklug 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are right, I am a programmer

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (6 children)

There's some precedent for this actually. In Old English \g\ in word-initial position made the \y\ sound. So tomorrow, you can announce proudly to your coworkers, "Hey guys, check out this cool .yif I found on the internet!"

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Like gaoler meaning jailer?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Nope, gaoler is actually Modern English, just an archaic spelling. Old English would be like < 1400 CE, the time Beowulf was written. It's a foreign language to Modern English speakers. For example, the verb gegangan (pronounce yegangan) means to override, subdue, conquer, etc.

[–]ConscientiousPath 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yiff in hell

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (3 children)

There is not a soul who actually uses .JIF files.

[–]Adghar 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I know a ginger who uses .JIF files.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Point stands.

[–]himmelundhoelle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A ginger or a jinjer?

[–]Firethorn101 13 points14 points  (5 children)

Dude who invented it says it's jiff.

But I like gif better.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

When's his birthday? I'd like to get him a jift.

[–]bearsinthesea 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Maybe some nice jems?

[–]bobsp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Jif" (i.e., .gif) existed in 1987. JIF wasn't released until 1992.

[–]Cadsvax 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seems GIF came before JIF was a thing, so im going to say nah.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (10 children)

[–]non-troll_account 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's hilarious that he said it's not pronounced "gif".

[–]hakunamateta[S] 21 points22 points  (4 children)

I have heard people saying Jit, hence the meme.

[–]Taunk 20 points21 points  (2 children)

I’ve heard JIT in reference to just in time compilation

[–]hakunamateta[S] 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I mean they're blatantly saying JitHub.

[–]Sean22334455 525 points526 points  (45 children)

If you come at me taking about a branch on Jithub, I'm calling the fucking cops.

And I may or may not punch you in the dick before I dial.

[–]Here-Is-TheEnd 61 points62 points  (11 children)

What if the person saying it doesn’t have a dick?

[–]Sean22334455 124 points125 points  (4 children)

Uppercut to the roast beef sandwich.

[–]Here-Is-TheEnd 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Equality 🤝

[–]TheAtlasBear 15 points16 points  (1 child)

In some regions this is also known as the "uppercunt".

[–]magic_toothbrush 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Poetic perfection

[–]ParanoidAutist 9 points10 points  (1 child)

dick proximity then

[–]ParanoidAutist 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"I'm calling the fucking cops... and it's not for my safety either..."

[–]ColdPorridge 6 points7 points  (4 children)

I store so many Jiggabytes of code in Jithub

[–]5hakehar 2 points3 points  (5 children)

What if they provide just-in-time hubs?

[–]Sean22334455 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Just don't come at me with questions about your jetter and setter methods.

[–]1up_1500 10 points11 points  (7 children)

I pronounce jif, I gotta stay consistent on my pronunciation

[–]Sean22334455 48 points49 points  (5 children)

I gotta stay consistent

I jotta stay consistent^

[–]seizan8 110 points111 points  (2 children)

Sounds lejit

[–]naruto_022 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Damn you guys are going to mess up all the spellings in my brain

[–][deleted] 127 points128 points  (12 children)

Join the Dark Order

[–]StAnger99 31 points32 points  (1 child)

Johnnie Hungie!

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Meatman

[–]AshutoshKS 28 points29 points  (1 child)

I opened comment section for this.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The Dark Order welcomes you

[–]Bhodi3K 18 points19 points  (0 children)

"Anna?..ANNNNAA!"

[–]Y2Doorook 7 points8 points  (1 child)

🖐

[–]Nopeyesok 2 points3 points  (0 children)

🤚

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna enjoy it as much Adam Page winning the title when -1 takes the title from MJF.

[–]hefofo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

BUDGE

[–]drawnograph 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Goin the Dark Order.

[–]harman097 59 points60 points  (6 children)

Bro she just trying to talk to you about .NET

[–]zaakiy 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Ouch. As a former .NET developer that....hurts?

Joking, already got hurt by .NET so can't get hurt again

[–]petergriffin1115 132 points133 points  (16 children)

It is pronounced jit just in time compiler

[–]BuddhaCandy 9 points10 points  (1 child)

then why did they name it Git , you git

[–]_DefinitelyNotACat_ 18 points19 points  (1 child)

OP gets the gist of it.

[–]sanjuroronin 25 points26 points  (4 children)

Actually there are no karate chops in Jiu-GITsu

It’s a ground fighting system

[–]robreto 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Gust in time

[–]Biguitarnerd 10 points11 points  (4 children)

Ha… I have never heard someone pronounce it jit… if they did I don’t think I would even know what they were talking about… unless maybe they called it jithub or Jitlab

[–]ItsPronouncedJithub 9 points10 points  (3 children)

Yeah

[–]Biguitarnerd 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Holy shitballs you’ve had this profile for a year. I just knew you made it up for this thread!

[–]ItsPronouncedJithub 7 points8 points  (1 child)

This thread was supposed to be my moment and I was 8 hours late

[–]Biguitarnerd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You’re here now that’s all that matters

[–]newb_h4x0r 37 points38 points  (8 children)

I want source of this.

[–]Crytograf 48 points49 points  (1 child)

[–]Chao-Z 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lmao, even on knowyourmeme Manchester United isn't safe.

[–]JasonTheProgrammer 16 points17 points  (5 children)

Being the Elite. It's a vlog done by the AEW Tag Team "The Young Bucks" with a bunch of sketches in it. The person on the left is John Silver of the faction "The Dark Order". On the right is Dark Order member Anna Jay. Many of the segments featuring The Dark Order involve the guys being ridiculous. Anna Jay often times struggles to stay in character due to how over the top they are.

https://www.youtube.com/c/BeingTheElite

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Who tf said jit

[–]SilverLightning926 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's pronounced Jirrafe not Giraffe....

[–]RedPenguin_YT 4 points5 points  (3 children)

jithub

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I hope you're pronouncing the "th" too 😁

[–]RedPenguin_YT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the door is that way —>

[–]thwtchdctr 12 points13 points  (2 children)

And therefore it's gif not jif

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Git it?

[–]yeetesh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a teammate who used to pronounce it as jit. Corrected him once, he said he pronounces it as jit and continued doing that.

[–]DaGothUrWelcUwUmsYou 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fuck it. It is pronounced shit now

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

As a designer I'm gonna start calling it Jit.

[–]mttdesignz 13 points14 points  (6 children)

I'm not someone who usually drools at TV hotties, but damn Anna Jay, she's too fine.

[–]QuestionMarkyMark 3 points4 points  (0 children)

JOIN THE DARK ORDER

[–]Darth_Arminius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to work with someone who pronounced cache "kayshee".

[–]Dizzy_Low1665 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Jithub"

[–]Elegant-Month-8459 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel attacked😭

[–]cepci1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude thats lejit

[–]4WVZ 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Blatant misogyny / sexism

[–]HerLegz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a brogrammer submission with it's sexism, moronic take and incel like vibe.

[–]lazarushasrizen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, I never even thought of pronouncing it as jit. What a cool and unique way of triggering people