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

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What's a GYME?

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Ooooh, THAT gyme.
 
TheNatural said:
Would love to hear you say these words:

gem
genuine
gist
gymnast

Also it's logical because it's a rule of English for the most part to use the pronounciation since it's used with basically every other word:

How To Pronounce 'g'
The letter 'g' is most often pronounced like in 'go', however sometimes it can be pronounced as a 'j' sound, like the 'j' sound in 'just'

Rule: It is a 'j' sound when it is followed by 'e: 'i' or 'y'

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/pronunciation/pronounce
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gift
gimp
geld
gimmick
 
TheNatural said:
Would love to hear you say these words:

gem
genuine
gist
gymnast

Also it's logical because it's a rule of English for the most part to use the pronounciation since it's used with basically every other word:

How To Pronounce 'g'
The letter 'g' is most often pronounced like in 'go', however sometimes it can be pronounced as a 'j' sound, like the 'j' sound in 'just'

Rule: It is a 'j' sound when it is followed by 'e: 'i' or 'y'

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/pronunciation/pronounce
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That isn't a rule in English and never has been, in fact most occurances are the opposite in the case of 'if' following a g. Let me give you an example or two. Treat this experience like a GIFt rather than a gimmick. Girl fish's gills have the girth of a girder. By the way, using a source of an English teaching site that has '4u' in the name gave me a giggle.

Hell, people even make fun of BTTF for the doc saying '1.21 jigawatts.' Come on now, we all know it's a soft g. You can admit you were wrong and have been saying something in quite a silly way for a while. Lots of people were doing it so it's not too embarrassing.
 
I went through my entire youth (I'm 20; I guess I still am a 'youngin' for the most part) only hearing the soft g and all of my friends, even my Comp Sci friends, used the soft g. I will not convert now and I will not convert tomorrow. I had no idea idea, really, that there was a hard 'G' pronunciation until about a year and a half ago.

Forever soft g.
 
Since it's a hard g in German, my mother tounge, there has never been any other way for me to pronounce it.

I also find the "g as in graphics" to be a knockout argument.
 
Ogni-XR21 said:
Since it's a hard g in German, my mother tounge, there has never been any other way for me to pronounce it.

I also find the "g as in graphics" to be a knockout argument.
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The knockout argument is that the creator says Jif. Do you go around telling people that they pronounce their name wrong?

I would tell Brett Favre he pronounces his name wrong
 
Big-E said:
The knockout argument is that the creator says Jif. Do you go around telling people that they pronounce their name wrong?

I would tell Brett Favre he pronounces his name wrong
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Yes, I would. I presume he prounounces Graphics as Jraphics too? He is an idiot. A clever idiot, but an idiot. If the creator said .gif is pronounced as 'zebra', would you back him on that?
 
Big-E said:
The knockout argument is that the creator says Jif. Do you go around telling people that they pronounce their name wrong?

I would tell Brett Favre he pronounces his name wrong
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In theory yes, the creator should be the one to decide. But one can only be wrong to a certain extent before being overruled by logic. ;-)
 
I know what the format's creator has said, but I've always said it with a hard G. It just makes more sense.

Now I have to wonder if anybody uses soft G for GAF. NeoJAF
FE
? Anyone want to play a jame?
 
Reminder:

The format's creator decided the pronunciation NOT on the vagaries of the english language, not after considerable thought; he decided on the pronunciation based SOLELY

SOLELY

On the fact he thought it'd be a funny pun on the "choosy moms choose jif" peanut butter commercial.

That's it. That's the entirety of his consideration.
 
hard g and anyone who says otherwise has problems.

besides, soft g reminds me of the peanut butter and that's bullshit. so for that reason ALONE
 
FatboyRoberts said:
Reminder:

The format's creator decided the pronunciation NOT on the vagaries of the english language, not after considerable thought; he decided on the pronunciation based SOLELY

SOLELY

On the fact he thought it'd be a funny pun on the "choosy moms choose jif" peanut butter commercial.

That's it. That's the entirety of his consideration.
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What an asshole.
 
This will be Obama's legacy. History books will tell of this for generations to come. All is right in the world.
 
I've known that people pronounce it jif for a while. I guess a decade ago my teacher that taught all my computer classes (maintenance, programming, etc) in high school pronounced it jif.

I'm sure as hell never going to pronounce it jif though. Hard G all the way.
 
Never heard of this. If it wasn't mean to be pronounced with a hard "G" why not name it JIF. The acronym doesn't even support this pronunciation.
 
jrafics image format

yeah, hard g.

Also, it's the worst format for showing tidbits of game footage, or any footage ever. No concept of motion estimation/compression and limited to 256 colors. And then the same people will turn around and complain about dithering in Wind Waker.
 
TheNatural said:
Would love to hear you say these words:

gem
genuine
gist
gymnast

Also it's logical because it's a rule of English for the most part to use the pronounciation since it's used with basically every other word:

How To Pronounce 'g'
The letter 'g' is most often pronounced like in 'go', however sometimes it can be pronounced as a 'j' sound, like the 'j' sound in 'just'

Rule: It is a 'j' sound when it is followed by 'e: 'i' or 'y'

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/pronunciation/pronounce
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Rule: G is hard when followed by i and f consecutively.
 
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