JPEG
JPEG
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Somehow, I can tolerate "jpheg" much easier than the forsaken "jif."
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You don't pronounce the word for imagery as "jrafics?" How odd.
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"Jif" is the original pronunciation. It is a pun, a play on the word "jif" short for "jiffy" meaning a short amount of time, as in "I'll send it to you in a gif". The newer pronunciation has become popular based on the fallacious reasoning that an acronym should be pronounced the same as its constituent words, which isn't a thing at all.
Language evolves, and both pronunciations are common enough to be considered acceptable. The only way to be wrong about how to pronounce the word is to claim one of the pronunciations is wrong.
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Become popular? It's been popular roughly for the lifespan of the format. It's hardly language's fault the developer wanted to make an unfunny reference to a since forgotten peanut butter slogan.
On the other hand linguistics indicate a hard g sound with the construction of the word, constituent words aside. Plenty of four letter words starting with the gi combo have a hard g, including but not limited to gift which you may notice is very similarly constructed.
Whatever else the English language may throw at us, people appreciate consistency because we can make some sense of the world. A hard g is the consistent, predictable, sensible choice for the limited availability of those virtues English offers.
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It's pronounced like yiff. I have spoken.
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Great, now search for communities with 'yiff' here on lemmy.
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That's a fantastic idea ;P
Still kicking myself for joining Pawb and not Yiffit <.<
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It's pronounced with a hard J because a soft GIF is just the post deed version of GILF...
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Git is now pronounced Jit.
JIT, as in the compiler architecture, is now pronounced Git.
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It's pronounced Gif, with a soft G as in Graphics.
I don't give a fuck what the idiot creator thinks it should be pronounced as, I'll die on this hill with my honor intact, surrounded by the corpses of everyone who thinks Jif is referring to anything but peanut butter.
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You say soft g when you mean hard g. Hard g's include GOAT, game, dragon, and gangster. And gif.
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Jif is a cleaning product
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It's pronounced jif because jraphics are his phavorite.
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The J is pronounced like the J in Jesus (Spanish pronunciation)
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👋 feg
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no need to be homophobic
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If you have to spell it wrong to show how you pronounce it that should be a sighn
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Guys.. guys... can we all just agree that it's pronounced gif and not gif?
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Why don't you just pronounce it "gee-eye-eff"?
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Because that way madness lies.
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Say gift. Now what you're going to do next is leave out the T but enunciate the gif part the same way. Fuck you jif people!
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I'll tell the agile fragile fugitive gin-drinking giraffes eating ginger ginseng to imagine gingerly using their digits to engineer a geological survey of the gist of your comment. They ate too much gingerbread and now have gingivitis, so the margins of those attracted to religion aren't as rigid as the original origins of those of that region and we have to remain vigilant lest magic supersede logic, which of course would be terrible for legislation of the legions.
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That's how you do it, boys and jirls
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GIF is pronounced GIF not because the G stands for Graphical, but because it is its essence. It is what is calls out to be... Called.
And because it's not peanut butter.
And for the same reason, JPEG is pronounced JFEG not because the P stands for Photographic, but because that is the expression of its true essence.
I just didn't know it before today.
Justice for JΦEG!
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Also, "gi" in english makes the hard g sound very often, like in gift, or give, or giddy. You need to do some real mental gymnastics to justify it as a j sound
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The giant ginger biologist originally apologized for being allergic to ginseng.
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giant, gigantic, ginger, gist, gin, giraffe, gibberish, gingivitis, giblet, giro, giron, gingal, gipsy / gitano, gingili, gigot, girasole, giaour, ...
logic, tragic, agile, agism/aging, legit, sigil, magi, magic, argil, algid, aegis, vagile, algin, digit, legible, legislature, surgical, intellegible, ...
looks like a lot of palatal affricates to me dawg idk, i think you're the one doing mental gymnastics trying to justify it not being pronounced the way the creator specified. "gif" the way you ask for just sounds weird
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Honestly have never understood the gif debate. Words sometimes have multiple pronunciations. They're both fine.
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All of this could be solved if English weren't a shit language with incoherent phonemes.
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All this could be solved if people would accept that English changes over time and if defined by usage and understanding.
If people easily understand what I mean when I say gif then I have pronounced it correctly. Same as if people understand what I mean if I use "literally" to mean "figuratively" or spell "island" with an 's' despite it having no Latin roots.
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Helen wears socks and sandals, and has divergent opinions. Helen needs to disappear in a landfill. Dispatching a team.
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I'm definitely not taking any lessons from someone who wears socks with sandals no matter their credentials.
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As a German, I feel personally attacked by this.
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We should just go ahead and pronounce all acronyms the way their unabbreviated forms’ first syllable letters are said. Just ignore we treat individual letters differently than the words they came from.
The CIA should sound like “see ya” Department of Transportation “Duht” Internal Revenue Service “ears”
Etc.
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I would suggest the tax guys be pronounced ire's. The raise my ire anyway.
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Dept of Transportation would be "dot", no?
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Coming from the jif camp myself, I’d just like to point out it’s jay-phej.
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