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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Honestly have never understood the gif debate. Words sometimes have multiple pronunciations. They're both fine.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How dare you not pick a side. Your neutrality sickens me.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Ah, bunkers. You see, bunkers have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I will send wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reach their limit and shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

All I know is my gut says "maybe".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Compassion or exhaustion.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

When I die, please give Kevin my regards.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Pick a side, you monster, you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

it's an acronym (as opposed to initialisms, which are not pronounced as a single word). There is no rule on pronunciation.

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We don't do this for any other acronym. There is no rule about the pronunciation. It's arbitrary. The creator chose "jif", so that's the "canonical" one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That guy must have really enjoyed getting jifts at Christmas.

In other news, can we hook a dynamo up to wherever he's buried because the high RPM would probably power a small country at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

jifts for Christmas

Yes, the time when you eat gingerbread and drink ginormous amounts of gin, if you get the gist

Let’s hang everybody who claims that gif is pronounced jiff, but not because (as you seem to imply) that’s not how “gi” is read in English because nothing is read always like anything ever in English

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All English words that start "gif-" (and for that matter "giv-") have a hard g.

While English is well known for a mess of exceptions, GIF has, or had, no precedent for soft G, so you'll forgive people for thinking that the choice of soft G on GIF is a little unusual and being rubbed the wrong way by it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

All words that start with “gif” have a hard g because there is only one: gift. If “gift” had a soft g, then all the words that start with “gif-“ would have a soft g. If it only has one case of application it’s an accident, not a rule.

And again, saying this as somebody who agrees on “gif” having a hard g despite the delirious claims of its inventor.