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[nkarafo]

I pronounce it "Jif" as in jelly. Because you are spelling the letters G, I, and F. The letter "G" is pronounced "Jee" as in jelly.

It's easier on the tongue too. And also, in hindsight, the creator of the format agrees with me.

When someone beats you in a multiplayer name, how do you pronounce "GG"? It stands for Good Game yet everyone says "Jee Jee" as in jelly. Because they spell the letters, not the words.

Also, how do you Pronounce "VGA"? Or "GPU"? You do as in jelly again. Those Gs stand for "graphics" too. So why should "GIF" be any different?

So it's soft G. I'm really surprised by the vote results.

 

[calistan]

how the hell could you say meme wrong?

I used to work with a guy who insisted it was pronounced 'memm' since it's a French word même meaning 'same'. Any time anybody pronounced it as 'meem' he would look sad and shake his head.

He was probably right, but still. Fucking degenerate.

 

[nkarafo]

He shouldn't have named it after graphics if he wanted to pronounce it jif.

It's in the name, (G)raphics Interchange Format…. It's fucking (g)if.

Sorry but only basement dwelling neckbeards say "jif".

How do you pronounce VGA and GPU?

 

[Notorious_Roy]

gif, with a soft G

 

[Rentahamster]

I used to work with a guy who insisted it was pronounced 'memm' since it's a French word même meaning 'same'. Any time anybody pronounced it as 'meem' he would look sad and shake his head.

He was probably right, but still. Fucking degenerate.

He wasn't right. Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme", and it was in the context of linguistic turns of phrase behaving in a similar way to genes, which is why he called it "meme".

It's poetry. It ryhmes.

 

[Hudo]

"ih". The g is obviously silent and the f is pronounced like h.

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

How do you pronounce VGA and GPU?

You don't pronounce them at all, you sound them out as individual letters.

 

[Rentahamster]

My gypoo is an Urtex 5090 Founder's Edition.

 

[GymWolf]

G in italian sound like the english J, so technically gif but sound like jif.

I only use english gif when i want to sound like a pompous tech expert.

 

[roosnam1980]

any one named "George" here on neogaf?

 

[Solarstrike]

Gif me all ur loot and no questions

 

[Sakura]

I pronounce it "Jif" as in jelly. Because you are spelling the letters G, I, and F. The letter "G" is pronounced "Jee" as in jelly.

It's easier on the tongue too. And also, in hindsight, the creator of the format agrees with me.

When someone beats you in a multiplayer name, how do you pronounce "GG"? It stands for Good Game yet everyone says "Jee Jee" as in jelly. Because they spell the letters, not the words.

Also, how do you Pronounce "VGA"? Or "GPU"? You do as in jelly again. Those Gs stand for "graphics" too. So why should "GIF" be any different?

So it's soft G. I'm really surprised by the vote results.

Why are you conflating saying individual letters with pronouncing something as a word? If the argument was about whether we should say jee-eye-eff or guh-eye-eff you might have a point lol.
How do you pronounce ASCII or ASAP? Surely the same way you pronounce the individual letters, because you are spelling the letters right? So both A's in ASAP should be pronounced the same.

VGA and GPU are initialisms. GIF is not.

 

[Baemono]

I used to work with a guy who insisted it was pronounced 'memm' since it's a French word même meaning 'same'.

nah. A meme is written « mème » in French, not like « même ».

 

[Baemono]

I pronounce it like Gob (from Arrested Development)

 

[BloodFree]

Why are you conflating saying individual letters with pronouncing something as a word? If the argument was about whether we should say jee-eye-eff or guh-eye-eff you might have a point lol.
How do you pronounce ASCII or ASAP? Surely the same way you pronounce the individual letters, because you are spelling the letters right? So both A's in ASAP should be pronounced the same.

VGA and GPU are initialisms. GIF is not.

Well, if you want to go that route, then how do you pronounce Gingerbread or Giraffe ? Usually Jin-jer-bred and ji-raf. All of a sudden you add an "F" after the "GI" and it the whole pronunciation changes ?
But once again all this back and forth is because english is an awful inconsistent mess of a language that constantly breaks its own rules. At the end of the day, if you can understand what the person is saying, who gives a fuck.

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Gif (as in graphics) - I couldn't give a shit what the creator calls it, it's Gif.

 

[ShirAhava]

I say GOUF

"This is no Zaku, boy! No Zaku!"

 

[Rentahamster]

All of a sudden you add an "F" after the "GI" and it the whole pronunciation changes ?

It's not unheard of.

(Gi)rd - hard g
(Gi)raffe - soft g

 

[BloodFree]

It's not unheard of.

(Gi)rd - hard g
(Gi)raffe - soft g

Yeah, also Git. You typically don't say "Jit".
Precisely my point, there's no consistency, because english is not a phonetic language. So who cares if someone says gif or jif, you can most likely understand them and there's possible examples you can pull to support both pronunciations.

 

[Rentahamster]

So who cares if someone says gif or jif

That's what my position is too, but people have strong feelings about this one.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Gif me all ur loot and no questions

I'm a trained door unlocker

 

[Wildebeest]

How do you all pronounce giant and ginger?

 

[rm082e]

I see. Well, this clarifies it then: Steve Wilhite doesn't know how to use English correctly - if he did, he wouldn't need to clarify his usage of it. "GIF" with a hard G because what the fuck else would it be?

I have always taken his comments as A+ level trolling. He knows it's Gif, and Jif is silly, but he likes the meme war it's created online and wanted to throw some gasoline on it for the lulz.

If I'm right about that, I wholeheartedly applaud him for it. If he actually means it, then he should die in a fire.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Jif.
In Italian, G before E and I is pronounced J. It's just logical for us. If you want the hard G there, you must write GHE and GHI.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

GIF not jif

Graphics Interchange Format

 

[Rentahamster]

I have always taken his comments as A+ level trolling. He knows it's Gif, and Jif is silly, but he likes the meme war it's created online and wanted to throw some gasoline on it for the lulz.

If I'm right about that, I wholeheartedly applaud him for it. If he actually means it, then he should die in a fire.

trolling is a art

 

[Mikado]

How do you pronounce VGA and GPU?

Vee-jah and Jeh-poo obviously.

 

[E-Cat]

I believe the creator of the .gif format went on record saying it's "jif", but that won't stop me from saying it gif, the superior way.

He can't just change how English works. Fuck that guy

 

[Mikado]

Jif.
In Italian, G before E and I is pronounced J. It's just logical for us. If you want the hard G there, you must write GHE and GHI.

Your honour, request to strike the Italians' testimony from the record since they also spell "chip" as "cip".

 

[E-Cat]

Fortunately, most of gaf is sane.

Don't you mean, jaf?

Evidently, that's how 15% here pronounce it. Ban-worthy, imo

 

[Fermbiz]

 

[E-Cat]

Me me..

But not actually me, promise.

Richard Dawkins coined "meme" in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an analogy to "gene". Those uncultured swine don't say "genie", do they?