The White House finally settles the .GIF debate, NeoGAF celebrates, NeoJAF cries foul

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-Pyromaniac- said:
If the person that invented any object pronounced it a certain way, that would be the pronunciation, because that's how it was intended. Might make more sense another way but it's still not what it is.
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He just invented the format. He did not invent the pronunciation of the word that the G represents. It doesn't matter what he called it. It stands for "graphics" and graphics is pronounced with a hard G. Thus GIF is pronounced with a hard G. And now the leader of the free world has spoken. The debate is over.
 
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-Pyromaniac- said:
If the person that invented any object pronounced it a certain way, that would be the pronunciation, because that's how it was intended. Might make more sense another way but it's still not what it is.
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The person who discovered Aluminum named it Aluminum...

What does Britain call it again...?
 
Never really got why the creator says Jif. I mean the G in gif stands for graphics right? Graphics has a hard G so it makes sense for gif to be hard G too.
 
JIF representing.

Since it's an acronym, if you say it in acroynm form like gee-eye-eff, the first letter is pronounced as a soft G. Smash it all together and make it a single continuous word and it comes out as JIF. (Well, slur the 'eye' part a little... but it's definitely closer to JIF than GIF.) That's what I figured the creator was thinking anyway.
 
Rebel Leader said:
HARD G

There's no peanut butter here >_>
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The peanut butter doesn't exist in my country.

Zomba13 said:
Never really got why the creator says Jif. I mean the G in gif stands for graphics right? Graphics has a hard G so it makes sense for gif to be hard G too.
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There are no rules in English stating that the sound each letter of an acronym makes must be the same as the word it stands for makes. This is especially true for vowels, e.g. the "O" in NATO sounds nothing like the O in "organization", which is almost like an "au".
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
There are no rules in English stating that the sound each letter of an acronym makes must be the same as the word it stands for makes. This is especially true for vowels, e.g. the "O" in NATO sounds nothing like the O in "organization", which is almost like an "au".
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Listen to this man. He speaks the truth.
 
The Adder said:
The person who discovered Aluminum named it Aluminum...

What does Britain call it again...?
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The person who discovered it called it Aluminium, he then changed it because of American reasons and bullshit, he then changed it back so it fit the rest of the table.

So there.

Edit: And for the benefit of this thread, if I heard someone pronounce it jif in front of me, i'd seriously have to consider slapping them. That's how wrong and stupid it sounds.
 
If you're looking at Gif as a nonsense word rather than an acronym, it is definitely a hard /g/. The general phonemic rule is that c or g followed by a, o, or u will be hard and c or g followed by e, i, or y will be soft. There are exceptions to that, of course.
 
Anoregon said:
So it's Dgif now?
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The G in judgement and the J in (to use a settled pronunciation) jiffy are the same sound: dʒ, so I don't know why you're introducing another atrocious phoneticization itt when "jif" was already in common use. I truly hope you weren't trying to own me or something by insinuating they were different sounds that warranted different atrocious phoneticizations because that'd be really embarrassing.

But anyways I'll be more explicit I guess: it's standard vocalization to use dʒ instead of g when a short vowel immediately follows the letter g. Using g instead of dʒ when pronouncing the file format .GIF isn't wrong since it's referring to the sound of the word that is represented with the letter G in the acronym but it's hyper-literal and doing otherwise isn't evidence of illiteracy. (I hope no gif-sayers pronounce GAO as an initialism instead of as an abbreviation.) It's OK to temper your words in a silly thread.
 
The guy who discovered Tungsten (lit. heavyrock) decided to call it Wolfram and you see where that led most of the fucking world to.
 
Darryl said:
jif is just far less awkward to say.
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Only if you're in the middle of saying "in a jif-fy, Pete."

Pete, what are you gonna do with your share of the treasure?


Go out west somewhere. Open a fine restaurant. I'm gonna be the maitre d'. Greet all the swells. Go to work every day in a bow tie, tuxedo. all the staff say "yes, sir" and "no, sir" and "in a jiffy, Pete" And all my meals for free. What about you, Delmar?
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Hard G forever.

ThoseDeafMutes said:
The peanut butter doesn't exist in my country.



There are no rules in English stating that the sound each letter of an acronym makes must be the same as the word it stands for makes. This is especially true for vowels, e.g. the "O" in NATO sounds nothing like the O in "organization", which is almost like an "au".
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It doesn't? Try saying both back to back, like "NATOrginazation." Each word still sounds normal that way.
 
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