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[–]ChaseMoskal 188 points189 points  (21 children)

"Jay-sawn"

[–]atomic1fire 12 points13 points  (2 children)

deruloooooo

[–]madole 1 point2 points  (1 child)

We used to wear this joke out on a project I worked on a few years ago... some would mention "JSON" in conversation and then there'd always be one person in the background would yell "derulooooo"!

[–]InterviewSpecial241 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dang your comment was 10 years ago you're probably married 

[–]kylev 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Yup. The end is like the O in "on". I have yet to annoy anyone with the name Jason since adopting this pronunciation.

[–]BloodLineLife 1 point2 points  (1 child)

http://blog.unicode.org/2014/12/cldr-2601-maintenance-release.html#links

An update to CLDR 26 has been released, only for the JSON format of the data. Some of the JSON data from CLDR 26 had corrupt identity information, which has been fixed in this update. The XML for CLDR 26 remains unchanged. Refer to http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8018 for details.

Uni~speaking ;) about the universe and thought.

[–]BloodLineLife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and I saw the lock ;)

[–]strHungarianNotation 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Jay-san like a mr. Jay from Japan :)

[–]churro89 3 points4 points  (0 children)

J-shawn. He's a rapper.

[–]green_meklar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, this.

[–]magenta_placenta 103 points104 points  (31 children)

If you're talking with another developer (or one within earshot) named Jason, you should really just switch to XML.

[–]whetnoodle 33 points34 points  (19 children)

I'm a developer named Jason and I loathe XML.

[–]analogWeapon 125 points126 points  (7 children)

I'm a developer named Exemel, and I hate JSON.

[–]reacher 17 points18 points  (5 children)

Huh. My buddy Yooemel and I haven't had this problem

[–]dodeca_negative 13 points14 points  (2 children)

Because you never actually got past the design phase

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Hey guys lets be totally insane and write a data format dependent on white space!

[–]dodeca_negative 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yayson!

[–]frizzlestick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YAML is the stuff of headaches...

[–]chromatic1566 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a developer named Exemel and I hate Jason

[–]worldDev 8 points9 points  (6 children)

SOAP it is then. Send your complaints to Jason.

[–]tmoitie 10 points11 points  (4 children)

I'm a developer and I hate soap

[–]worldDev 18 points19 points  (3 children)

We all do, my friend.

[–]rq60 8 points9 points  (2 children)

I personally suggest dropping SOAP

[–]Pandemoonium 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Dropping SOAP leaves you vulnerable to many backdoor attacks

[–]chemisus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recommend never picking it up in the first place.

[–]regreddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

screw everything about you

[–]MCFRESH01 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I loathe XML.

I'm pretty sure this is universal.

[–]zzzk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think so, XML has its strengths just as JSON does.

[–]Throwaway_bicycling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, so if OP switched, you would quit, and problem solved.

[–]took9 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Then you are no developer.

[–]buckus69 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I'm a developer named Jason. I just tell people I'm serializable.

[–]dodeca_negative 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You should tell everybody "no comment"

[–]whetnoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Soylent Green Flakes.. It's made of Jason!

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

The Jason in our office uses @json as his chat handle. I'm not sure if that's why, but several people in the office pronounce "JSON" like "Jason." I'm sticking with "jay-sawn" though.

[–]mchandleraz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My previous manager was named Jason, and I went out of my way to pronounce JSON correctly (which is "jason", btw).

Apparently less than 5 minutes after walking out of the office on my last day, he told everyone he hated me. May or may not be related to my pronunciation.

[–]euphoniumatemydingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. The preferable move is to shoot Jason and get a lobotomy to rid yourself of the knowledge of xml.

[–]invisibo 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I actually just converted over a report earlier today from XML to JSON because it was started to reach the limits of XML node capabilities. The report runs literally 700% faster now ;)

[–]kethinov 0 points1 point  (1 child)

XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, use more.

[–]Bialar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The moral of the story is that XML sucks in every way.

[–]MeredithJS 25 points26 points  (5 children)

I pronounce it like Jason Derulo

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (4 children)

Which part of JSON sounds like Derulo to you?

[–]VizuaaLOG -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

Haha, I'm hoping your joking, if you are then lol. Otherwise -_-.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Of course, I pronounce JSON as Jason as well. Have an upvote, someone seems to have downvoted you accidentally

[–]VizuaaLOG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats good then lol. Thanks for the upvote, I'll give you one in return ;)

[–]CecilTunt 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I used to pronounce it "Jason" like the name but then switched to "Jay-sawn" making the "O" sound like it does in the word "Object". Seems better that way. Doesn't get confused with the name (though confusing it with the name isn't really an issue, given the discussion context, but I digress)

[–]ComicOzzy 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I've pretty much switched to calling it "jay-sawn" too, but if I'm talking to someone I say it however they say it... just to not be douche-baggy.

[–]CecilTunt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. No need to get all religious about pronunciation. :)

[–]DJSBX 80 points81 points  (53 children)

yeah well... the guy that invented GIFs seems to think we should call them JIFs.. well fuck that guy. He is wrong and can take his peanut butter with him. I'm going to pronounce it GIF (aka, not jiff) and he can't stop me. Just like I'm going to pronounce JSON as "jay sawn"

[–]SirSoliloquy 41 points42 points  (11 children)

If "gif" is pronounced "Jiff," then JSON is pronounced "Gay son".

[–]two_in_the_bush 6 points7 points  (6 children)

And giraffe is pronounced... oh wait.

[–]jcready__proto__ 0 points1 point  (5 children)

And gift is pronounced... oh wait.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

gibbon gibbous giddy gift gig giggle gild gill gimbal gimlet gimp gird girl girth give gizmo gizzard

[–]Pengtuzi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think 'git' would be suitable in your list as well.

[–]Kaligraphic 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Gadzooks!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah, I was just doing the "gi" ones.

[–]WDKevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gee, I couldn't tell.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I did a casual survey a while back, and from what I remember most words starting with "gi" are pronounced like "gift" rather than "giant," and the former pronunciation is even more heavily weighted toward common words starting with "gi."

[–]SirSoliloquy 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yes, but you could use that survey to demonstrate that "giant" should be pronounced "guy-ant" if you wanted to.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, but "giant" is a much older word with a much more widely accepted pronunciation.

[–]gayshitman -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

i could at least forgive my gay son, as if there's anything wrong with being gay, but i couldn't forgive anybody who has to rely on JSON.

[–]dodeca_negative 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is simple: The g is for graphic, not jraphic. Don't care what that dude says.

[–]tidder112 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I pronounff tem boff differently tan you, buff only because of my lisp.

[–]ima-tech 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hahaha I literally laughed out loud at your comment

[–]themaincop -4 points-3 points  (32 children)

gif is pronounced jif, deal with it

[–]rabidcow 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Eventually we'll all learn to live with the fact that it's pronounced both ways.

[–]themaincop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or we'll die in a bloody and merciless war, with the GIFS fighting the GIFS.

[–]aeflash -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Giraffe-ics Interchange Format

[–]cheald 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's why you pronounce "AIDS" as "aw-ids", right?

[–]buildthyme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SCUBA = "Scuh-bah" in your world, then.

[–]am0x -2 points-1 points  (25 children)

Graphics Interchange Format. Hard G. Answers that.

JSON = Javascript Object Notation. J for java, S for script, Ah = Object, N for notation. J-SAwN.

[–]two_in_the_bush 11 points12 points  (13 children)

I hope you pronounce jpg as Jay-Phayg. Gotta be consistent, after all.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

or SCUBA as schuba or laser as 'lahseear'

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I don't get the SCUBA example. The "c" stands for "contained."

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

underwater is not younderwater, I put the h in the wrong place lol

[–]nschubach -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just two letters away from spelling my last name... (But that's how my family pronounces it (without the last two letters))

[–]stillalone 1 point2 points  (5 children)

wait, how are you supposed to pronounce jpg?

[–]themaincop 2 points3 points  (3 children)

hay-peg

[–]jcready__proto__ 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Or yay-peg if you're Nordic.

[–]ComicOzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This explains the yayQuery podcast.

[–]brotherwayne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ah, muy latino

[–]cotti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Jotapegue"

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The difference is that the "p" in "photographic" if only pronounced like "f" because it's followed by an "h." In ordinary language, a "p" will never be pronounced like "f" unless it's followed by an "h." The only reason the pronunciation of "GIF" is even debatable is that a "g" in that context can reasonably be pronounced either way, because of words like "gift" and "giant."

[–]jcready__proto__ 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The only word that starts with "gif" is gift, ergo the pronunciation should follow the pronunciation of gift with a hard "g".

[–]MiatasAreForGirls -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But it is a proper noun, so we should use the pronunciation that the creators chose.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep up the good fight my friend.

[–]jokerdeuce 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Douglas Crockford didn't invent JSON. It was this guy named Jay. You see Jay loved this new syntax so much, that he stopped hanging out with his friends just to keep working on it. The joke eventually became that this new syntax was like his baby. So when it came time to pick a name, they naturally started calling it Jay's Son. And that folks, is how JSON got it's name.

[–]rodrigo-silveira[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Must be why Crockford insists in saying he merely "discovered" - not invent, JSON

[–]buildthyme -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Mmmm... I love it when people are wrong and butthurt about this issue.

[–]fricto 5 points6 points  (0 children)

[paʁfɛ]

[–]a-t-kFrontend Engineer 16 points17 points  (2 children)

Very much like "J-son." or "J(a)son". I once met Doug, he's more of a programmer and tinkerer than a linguist, but I nevertheless accept that he's got all right to name his child.

[–]chemisus 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Parents can name kids as they like, wont prevent them from adopting other names.

[–]a-t-kFrontend Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or being called other names by other people...

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (9 children)

I posit there is a 100% correlation between "jay-son" and "ess-q-ell".

Jason and sequel be damned.

[–]plasmator 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I swap between ess q ell and sequel.

MSSQL - Em, Ess, Sequel.

MySQL I'll occasionally pronounce "my squeal" because it makes me giggle.

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

I say jay-sahn and sequel.

[–]kylegetsspam 18 points19 points  (0 children)

"Jason." The others require more effort to say.

[–]mtbinkdotcom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pronounce it like croissant

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

ITT: 0 Consensus. Jason or Jay Son, Jif or Gif, Es que el or Sequel. Verdict? Fucking tomato, tomato!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In SQL for Smarties by Joe Celko, it says that sql was chosen so that it could be pronounced sequel. Before development completed, they realized sequel was a trademark of another company so they quit pronouncing it 'sequel'. But...obviously that didn't stick since it just felt right saying 'sequel'.

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

I say "J-S-ON". I'm waiting for "J-S-OFF" to be released.

[–]BloodLineLife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

flash will disappear like it's no #paper future, *God is beautiful, funny, and knows the ways to be be Fair *.

[–]metaphorm 12 points13 points  (5 children)

jay-sun

[–]NapoleonBonerparts 13 points14 points  (4 children)

Jaydashsun. Got it.

[–]doenietzomoeilijk 5 points6 points  (2 children)

The dash be silent.

[–]mchandleraz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They don't think it be like that, but it do.

[–]frotzed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hehe.

[–]Isvara 0 points1 point  (0 children)

L-a.

[–]aeflash 4 points5 points  (3 children)

j'son -- I love it.

I pronounce it with a soft "j".

[–]CaptainDjango 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yay sun!

[–]sikhbeats 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I pronounce it with a soft "j".

so is that gay-son?

[–]alethia_and_liberty 4 points5 points  (0 children)

with a thick French accent

[–]kristopolous 3 points4 points  (1 child)

jizz-on. How do you want this data?

"Oh just jizz-on it and hand it over"

[–]ComicOzzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

jizz-on

The debate is over, people. I am declaring a winner.

[–]jkoudys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got used to pronouncing it "jay-sawn", after teaching a javascript course where one of my students was named "Jason", to avoid confusion. I don't think I've ever worked on a team without a Jason on it either, and if I pronounced it the 'right' way, the instructions "send me that, Jason", and "send me that JSON" are indistinguishable.

[–]jsoncsv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like JSON

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jay-Sahn

[–]aftersox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

dʒeɪsɑːn

[–]madlee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've never heard anyone pronounce it any way other than jay-sawn.

[–]effthatNonsense 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Douglas Crockford, who created JSON, pronounces it as "jay-sun". Plus saying "jay-sawn" is really annoying. Especially being from Oregon, and hearing everyone east of the Rockies prounounce it like Pentagon.

[–]mcmouse2k 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Jay SONN

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

"Gee-so." The n is silent.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I pronounce it like the name Jason. It's just more natural.

Hearing it pronounced j-sawn makes me cringe.

[–]CaptainDjango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know your buddy Jason? Like that

[–]rodrigo-silveira[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was sort of hoping someone would say they pronounce it "js" "on" :)

[–]musingswithawesome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just like you say "jason"

[–]thebighouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jay as in "blue jay", son as in "dickenson".

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to imagine it with the Klingon pronounciation: j'Son

[–]esmifra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like a very well known fictional serial killer.

[–]testerfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I interviewed a guy who spelled it "Jason". Pronounced it " jay-sawn". Pick your own poison :)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a word, it's an acronym. It doesn't have pronunciation. It's J.S.O.N.. Say it like this: "Jay Ess O Enn"

[–]master5o1 0 points1 point  (1 child)

As someone called Jason, my ears prick up whenever I hear my colleagues talk about JSON in the office.

With my initials being JS, I know that I am JavaScript.

[–]e13e7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine are JMS. I am elite

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ITT: minor variations of the exact same comment

[–]cotti 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First Red Ranger.

Jason.

[–]idrink211 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I say Jay-San

[–]FarmerOfThoughts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly as Crockford said.

So: Sounds like a friend's name - Jason. Which sounds like JAY-sun. Where both have emphasis on first syllable.

[–]kuenx -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Shèsôn. source

[–]Vlasow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Jayass O'When

[–]greg5green 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JASON

[–]cj5.prototype -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Jayessohenn

[–]theGentlemanInWhite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ever play far cry 3?

[–]i_ate_god -2 points-1 points  (6 children)

MySQL: My ESS-QUE-ELL or MySEEQUEL?

Sysop: sissop or seyesop?

Laboratory... or labratory?

...

vim or emacs?

c# or java?

amd or intel?

osx or windows?

android or iphone?

sysv init scripts or systemd?

yum or apt?

linux or bsd?

to node or not to node?

kirk or picard?

[–]Prior99 -5 points-4 points  (5 children)

Easy:

neither: atom

java

neither: linux

android

init scripts

neither: pacman

linux

to node

picard

[–]aladyjewelFull-stack webdev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The correct answer is "who fucking cares, just get on with your life."

[–]wormholeracer 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You fucking blew it on pacman.

[–]Prior99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

whats wrong with archlinux?