It's canon now. And so is a certain image format.

canon
It's pronounced sanon btw
- From the original çanon of course
  
  It’s pronounced source.
- You mean the Sanon the Dork Lard?

Jandalf, yes I was once called that. Jandalf the Jray.
- Now I am Jandalf the Hwhite.
  
  After smearing myself with chool hwip

My giant giraffe agrees.
If you're still unconvinced, say "G"
The letter starts with the J sound.
Checkmate atheists.
- I may sound haughty and knowledgable when I say JiF then, but between just you and me, I didn't know a damn thing about this and just decided to say it this way in my brain for reasons that remain unclear.
  
  Me too. I just always said it with a soft G because my brain told me that's how it was pronounced.
  
  Strange that I never got a notification for this. Hm.
  I've always pronounced it that way for whatever reason, and when I learned that was the correct way I was very high and mighty, lol
- Oh yeah? Well lick my gargantuan gorilla gonads.
  (I'm actually team jif but can't help myself)
- Yes but actually no
- Was it a gift?
  
  Yeah, from a gyrating genie named George.
- Oooh, that's how grammar works in English language? Okay, so me as a developer of some obscure thing from this point forward are instructing everyone to pronounce "home" as "hume", since that's how you pronounce "o" in "tomb". I decided that solely because my software is loosely related to the meaning of the word. K thx bai.
  
  Did you invent the word home? No? So you don't get to decide how to pronounce it.
  
  Wait till you hear about ghoti...
- Life is all about jif and dake.
- Good god Gordon go gag a gator
- technically starts with the D sound
  
  Now you're just getting crazy
- I always think all the arguments are ridiculous because it’s essentially saying that someone is pronouncing a product (not a word) that they created incorrectly. This product even has a catchphrase for it. There’s literally nothing you can say to contradict that. It’s a product with a catchphrase that describes how to pronounce it. If you pronounce it differently then you do you, but you are wrong.
  
  It's also pretty funny when it's about actual product you will get corrected to the intended pronunciation, or at least, allowed because people acknowledge there might be multiple way of reading a word based on where you from. Like potato and tomato.

One thing I learned recently is that if GIF shall be pronounced "GIF" like the G in Graphical, JPEG shall be pronounced "JFEG" like the P in Photography
Just droppin that in
- Do I look like I know what a JFEG is?
  
  I just want a picture of a gosh dang JFEGdog
- J'feg
- Fuck this, double standards ftw
- Is it pronounced jilf then as well?
- My name is jgef
- If it was JPhEG sure.

Would be the worst retroactive devaluation of a body of literary work since JK Rowling showed the world how she really is.
- Orson Scott Card's gotta rank up there, too.
  
  True
- I really don't think JK Rowling revealed who she really was. I think she demonstrated what too much money does to someone.
  
  Nah, you become overconfident, callous and indifferent to the suffering of others from amassing extreme wealth.
  Bigotry and pretending to be the victim of those you victimize is income-agnostic.

You can tell that’s fine art because it says it is.
- Picasso did the same thing.
  
  Jicasso?

I read that as "Yan-dolf".
I am not even making this up.
- OK you fancy Dutch dude. What're ya gonna do now? Brag about bicycles and socialized medicine?!!! (He says, jealous af)
  
  You mean yealous
- It's clearly laurel-dolf
  
  Nah, the "a"s are silent.

- I went looking for it, and apparently you’re right. He said “Jif”. He’s either trolling or being obstinate. People don’t see it that way, especially seeing as it’s the hard “G” from “Graphical” in the initialism. So he’s applying a pronunciation rule of soft G when followed with “i” when used in a word to an initialism - and acronyms aren’t words (noted: they can become treated as such).
  GIF is not a word. So soft “g” when followed by “i” does not apply.
  E: corrected to initialism, and now we have to debate if an initialism pronounced as an acronym should obey the soft G rule, or if it should be an exception. Exceptions do exist, so the soft G is not a hard rule.
  
  Acronyms are words. They're words formed out of the initial letters of a phrase or name.
  
  The funny thing is that even though there are people on both sides dead set they are right, if they hear someone say the opposite pronunciation they still understand what the speaker is referring to. So there's absolutely no context lost, it's just preference, and I have a feeling given the age of the name GIF those preferences are very regional, as the internet had not become a national/international thing yet.
  
  There is no such thing as a "hard g" or a "soft g". There is a g sound, and there is a j sound.
  Yes, I will die on this hill.
  
  It's almost like there is no rule when pronouncing acronyms and people choose to pronounce them however sounds best to them. How do you pronounce the U in SCUBA? How do you pronounce the two As in NASA? The A in BASE jumping? The O in POG juice? The O in SONAR? The I in SIM card? The A in LASER? None of those are pronounced like the composite letters, so why is GIF so rigid?
- That's dumb, It's "Graphics Interchange Format."
  
  How do you pronounce the U in SCUBA? How do you pronounce the two As in NASA? The A in BASE jumping? The O in POG juice? The O in SONAR? The I in SIM card? The A in LASER?

Yandalf
- Yandalf the Yeeted
- The great Anglo-Saxon wizard, Ġandalf

comes back
Bilbo is gay!
dies
comes back
Nazgul are just men in dresses!
not canceled cause that's true
- Sauron actually do shit but he's so powerful the shit disintegrated when it comes out.
  
  Sauron didn't do shit, he didn't even come out to play for the final stand off...

"Sauron's eye was supposed to be a gigantic vagina"
- Sauron's whispering eye.
- Sauron's vag
  
  What if he was evil because he wasn't getting any and his best attempt at making a medieval fleshlight kinda backfired.

And Elrond is Hispanic elf

Anyone who uses the argument that Graphical is pronounced with a hard G sound needs to think about how they pronounce other acronyms, like SCUBA, NASA, LASER, SONAR, POG, SIM... the list goes on.
- I do say N(ay)SA to annoy people.
- It's flattering that you think anybody knows what all of those acronyms actually stand for. I'm semi-certain of NASA, the rest could just be made up for all I know (as a non-native English speaker).
  
  Kinda hard to forget SCUBA. Self contained underwater breathing apparatus

Without the R???
- i_understood_that_reference.jif

All letters before A are silent.
- Dango Unchained
  
  Ah yes, my favorite movie
- Aragorn: You have my sword.
  Legolas: And you have my bow.
  Gimli: And my HAX.
  
  I love Lejolas and Jimli's gokes.
  
  So his name was always Jim
- LF?

Guess we need to remake the trilogy.
- Hollywood's probably working on that anyway.
  
  They wouldn't dare...
- It will have 1 hour 30 minutes of Sam Merry and Pippin argue about potaeto and potahtoe. And Sauron will spend his time mentioning all the genders and races and gods can't kill him while he got stabbed in his face.
- Maybe this time they can put in some GOD DAMN TOM BOMBADIL
  
  You sit the FUCK BACK DOWN, BOMBADIL! You won a Tolkien sweepstakes and got name dropped in the book, that's all!!!

He should also come out with some delicious spreads for toast, he could call them Jamdalf.

to be published in a limited gold embossed leather bound volume with 500 pages of commentary, March 2024
- to be published in a limited gold embossed leather bound volume with 500 pages of commentary, March 2024
  Tolkien fanatics: "Link?"
  Also...link?
  
  ps did I mention it's illustrated by ALAN LEE
  
  I mean... it might be $200 that I'll never justify spending. It might be entirely pointless and tarnishing professor Tolkien's legacy. But it's still going on my wishlist, yeh

Gets back up, "also, his name is Jolam." Lies back down.

Ohh i see it's a geeraffe, a long necked animal.
And power ranger called down a guyan robot to fight guyan monster enemy.

The genius Tolkien, ever generous, gestured for a round of gin martinis from his giant gentle giraffe. Over gentle murmurs from the crowd, I caught the gist of his speech: genuinely it’s pronounced Jandalf.
- Jandalf the Drey.
  
  I would watch that movie.

Yandalf the Yrey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrk8sqZfsgI
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://www.piped.video/watch?v=Nrk8sqZfsgI
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

Op doesn't know Frodo's real name is Froda. Tolkien changed it for modern ears.
- Yep. And Samwise was Banazîr.
  EDIT: Just did some more checking and, while Bilbo's name is actually Bilba, Frodo's name isn't Froda. It's Maura.
  
  My whole life is a lie.

Fuck him.
- I can't, he's dead.
  
  Of course you can

Do you pronounce jpeg as "jayfeg"?
- No, "jaypej."
  
  Juhpoogga.
- No, zhepeJ... you know same G pronunciation as in JIF.

pronounces a proper noun differently than its creator then insisting he's the one who's wrong
Smh. I'd like to tell French people the way they pronounce their words is wrong too, wish me luck.