adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It's time to find out. Stand and be counted, GAF.
Let's settle this. How do you pronounce 'gif'.
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Choosy developers choose gif
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Let's gust ask this juy
Rockondevil
Member
It's gif, not jif.
I don't care if the creator claims it's jif. The creators of velcro want you to call it hook and loop, but nobody is doing that either.
I don't care if the creator claims it's jif. The creators of velcro want you to call it hook and loop, but nobody is doing that either.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The_hunter
Gold Member
Gif with a 'G'
Dr Bass
Gold Member
George Lucas also can't pronounce the names of his own creations correctly so ... there's that.
It's "gif" hard g. Expressly for the reason this first panel states.
TheUnicornGuy
Gold Member
This, but also I'll pronounce it as I see fit. Like Jay-zed or zed zed top.
Dr Bass
Gold Member
This is solid parenting.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
EverydayBeast
ChatShitGPT Alpha 0.001
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
That's a reason a lot of people use, but I don't think it's a convincing one, personally. There is no acronym rule that states that is supposed to be the case. When it comes to acronyms, there are two ways English speakers deal with them. The first way is sounding out all the letters (e.g. CIA, HMA, USB, etc), . The second way is to sound out the acronym as its own word (e.g. SCUBA, LASER, NASA, NATO, etc).
"GIF" is obviously the second way, where we sound out the acronym as if it is its own word. When we do that, we don't necessarily equate the pronunciations of the words the acronym represents with the actual sounds that the first letter of each word makes. If that was a strict rule, "NASA" would be pronounced "nay-suh", since the "A" in NASA stands for "Aeronautics (ay-ro-not-iks)". We instead default to a common sense and natural sounding pronunciation, as if "NASA" was itself its own word.
That being said, there are countless cases of English words where a 'G' followed by a vowel results in either a hard or soft 'G' sound. IIRC, there are actually more words with a soft 'G' sound due to a lot of European influence on English, but it's been a while since I checked. Since we are pronouncing "GIF" as if it were its own word and not according to the pronunciation of the words the acronym is derived from, either pronunciation is fine.
Ultimately, the decision is personal preference and subjective, because language is subjective. The only objective reason - that the creator of the word says its the soft 'g', doesn't matter if no one cares.
Insane Metal
Member
Fortunately, most of gaf is sane. Can't say the same about the user above, though.
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John Bilbo
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Suomessa meillä sanotaan, että giffi. Se on vähän niinku kipsi ja kirahvi ois saanu lapsen.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Even as a Spaniard, "jif" sounds strange. Voted for Gif
bitbydeath
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rm082e
Gold Member
I read that as "gay peg"...
are you saying that there are degenerates out there saying "me me" instead of "meem"??????
kpopSuperstar
Member
I never even heard of jif.
kevboard
Member
how the hell could you say meme wrong?
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
You're correct about gif, imo.
But wrong about velcro, imo. Hook and Loop is the generic product, Velcro is the brand name. Velcro, I assume, would like their name to be the one that people think of first when they are looking to buy some hook and loop products.
Lambogenie
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ReBurn
Gold Member
It's a brand of peanut butter.
kevboard
Member
it's a wordplay on the word gene, how could anyone get that wrong?
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
This actually isn't how acronyms work, they are just pronounced however you would pronounce what is spelled out.