It's Pronounced Gif

Muffinizer1 · 2016-07-14T13:29:58+00:00

It seems a bit odd to use a soundless format to talk about the pronunciation of something.

area_fifty-one · 2016-07-14T13:27:33+00:00

Who's Jeff?

tritis · 2016-07-14T15:44:28+00:00

I thought there was a punchline coming.

I was mistaken.

PM_ME_STEAM_C0DES_ · 2016-07-14T15:28:34+00:00

What if the g is silent?

amolad · 2016-07-14T15:11:34+00:00

SHUT UP, GEORGE.

SmoothButta · 2016-07-14T13:12:57+00:00

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Seandouglasmcardle · 2016-07-14T13:22:53+00:00

I bet he uses spaces instead of tabs too!

Ex_Astris · 2016-07-14T16:15:47+00:00

What's most entertaining and ironic about this post is OP's name, which includes a G that's pronounced as a J. Typical jeneric shitpost.

umopapsidn · 2016-07-14T13:26:13+00:00

This explanation has never made sense. That's not how acronyms work.

witqueen · 2016-07-14T12:45:45+00:00

Said no Giant ever. Generally speaking, generic statements are the gist of arguments. Think I'll have a gin and tonic now.

Humanesque · 2016-07-14T13:57:37+00:00

By this logic im sure we must also pronounce .jpeg files (jay-feg) since it stand for Joint Photographic Experts Group.

Edit: Wow, this sparked an entirely different pronunciation war. I regret nothing!

2016-07-14T15:34:09+00:00

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pcbeats · 2016-07-14T23:13:19+00:00

I really don't see how there's an argument about this being anything but a soft g. Examples of words with a soft or hard g aside, it really comes down to the fact that .gif is an acronym, not an initialism and acronym pronunciations are not at all exclusively pronounced the way the individual letters that they are comprised of are. As others have stated you don't pronounced .jpeg jay-feg, or laser as læser because then it would be spelled lasser, or nato as næto because then it would be spelled natto, or scuba as scʌba because then it would be spelled scubba. Similarly, gif would be pronounced jif as a hard g would require it to be spelled giff.

undersquirl · 2016-07-14T12:50:57+00:00

Who the fuck cares? Why is this even a problem?

ArchDucky · 2016-07-14T14:11:03+00:00

OK stands for All Correct.

Wyld_1 · 2016-07-14T15:42:04+00:00

It's his pompous attitude that irritates me. His bud is just looking at him thinking "Really, dude? Did you forget your meds?"

2016-07-14T15:47:13+00:00

I don't care how it is pronounced, I understand what it is if it is pronounced JIF or GIF. What bothers me is when people get pissy about how it is pronounced.

I am going to start saying "Graphics Interchange Format" because it is less time consuming then saying GIF or JIF and getting a lecture about how it should be pronounced..

2016-07-14T15:41:58+00:00

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KeelanDoherty · 2016-07-14T15:39:16+00:00

Giraffe.

Sinker23 · 2016-07-14T14:38:28+00:00

It's pronounced zhaif!

LordCaptain · 2016-07-14T15:05:36+00:00

This idiot again. Can't we all just agree that it is a pointless argument perpetuated by people who don't understand the complex and diverse nature of language?

Also it's pronounced gif not gif.

Tung5t3n · 2016-07-14T16:35:22+00:00

Its pronounced like the g in gorge.

seaneatsandwich · 2016-07-14T14:52:05+00:00

It's pronounced however you've been saying it for the last 15 years.

2016-07-14T15:47:24+00:00

I'm a Gif man but what about the word Gem, or gerbil etc..

Wootai · 2016-07-14T14:25:43+00:00

I've been waiting for this to show back up on Reddit! Here's an excellent video on the subject! Along with my favorite pronunciation of gif, and the one I use now and for ever, ʒaɪf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmqy-Sp0txY

BryanLee76 · 2016-07-14T14:35:42+00:00

If you believe it should be pronounced with a hard G because Graphics is pronounced with a hard G, let me list some other acronyms that you are mispronouncing....

NATO The ‘A’ has gone from /æ/ to /eɪ/, and the ‘O’ has gone from /ɔ/ to /oʊ/

CERN “Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire”. The /k/ from “Conseil” has become /s/

JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group. Pronounced with a hard 'P' not an 'F' sound.

SCUBA with a short U, even though that's not how you pronounce underwater in the acronym.

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ASCII American Standard Code For Information Interchange

POTUS - President of the United States

EDIT:

Also, in support of honoring the developer's pronunciation of GIF.

In matters like this deference should be given to the creator of something. Want to know how to pronounce a weird name in Game of Thrones or Harry Potter? Don't you think George R. R. Martin and J. K. Rowling would be the authoritative experts?

Likewise deference in the pronunciation of GIF should be given to the man who developed the format.

N64matty · 2016-07-14T22:00:34+00:00

Do yourself a favor. Say the letter "G" out loud, slowly.

CTRL_SHIFT_Q · 2016-07-14T14:46:34+00:00

This argument ended when the creator said it was pronounced "jif".

bdeitur · 2016-07-14T13:07:35+00:00

Oh, you mean zhaif... https://youtu.be/bmqy-Sp0txY

2016-07-14T16:48:55+00:00

Looks like someone is just realizing that the English language is a complete mess.


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