this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every day we stray further from jod

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

how do you pronounce God, goo, grey, great, good, gun, gumption, goofy

plus jif is peanut butter

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

While I agree with you on how it should be pronounced, not a good argument. Giraffe.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Gift without the t, I always say

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Giant, geode, gel, george, gerbil. Just sayin'.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

*Gust sayin'.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with you but I have a simpler argument, which is the mere fact that this exists: https://fileinfo.com/extension/jif

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

u choose all these unrelated words when theres GIFt

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jraphics Interchange Format

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you pronounce it jif, you are 100% wrong no matter who you are.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

gif. With a hard g, because there is also .jiff and you could not distinguish otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (28 children)

The fact that this conversation exists is proof that the word is intuitively pronounced with a hard G.

The only reason to pronounce it like a J if because the creator liked it - and the reason he liked it was literally because of the (copyright-infringing) similarity to the peanut butter.

He made a huge contribution to the Internet by creating the format, and he deserves it gratitude. Mispronouncing gif is not the best approach to that.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Yiff obviously

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't think there's any real argument here. So I turned this into a meme.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I hate this argument so I'm going tip start pronouncing it like the Dutch G or the Spanish J and you won't be able to tell which it is because I speak neither language.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Like a sane person. Why do you ask?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not jraphics interchange format

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

neither do divers use "self contained OOnderwater breathing apparatus", usually written as SCUBA.

Nor do we say jPHeg files.

Nor "north AYYtlantic treaty OHHrganization"

or "light AYYmplification by stimulated emnssion of radiation"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

New one I just became aware of:

How does everyone say SQL?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I go back and forth between "Ess Cue Ell", "Sequel", and "You Fucking Whore"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is what we do at work.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

My dad has used SQL forever and calls it "Sequel."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Depends on the context

MySQL: my es que el

SQL Server: sequel Server

PostgreSQL: Postgress

or by itself just es que el

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's an initialisation, not an acronym, so it's only:

Ess-queue-ell.

Surely anything else is madness

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ess-Cue-Elle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I call it sequel but I've heard squirrel and squeal.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I pronounce it 'yiff'.

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

With a hard "guh" sound, because that's what I grew up with.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

JIF is peanut butter

GIF is Graphic Interchange Format

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

Jpeg should be pronounced gaypeg whenever someone else chooses to pronounce gif as jif. Change my mind.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

heef, spanish style

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This stupid fucking argument is proof humans will never achieve world peace

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Imagine talking in a language where people cant decide how words are pronounced

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Gif. Obviously.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Or you can pronounce it "heef" as in Spanish, just saying

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"Choosy developers choose gif."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, so that's what we're going to do today, we're gonna fight?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

G like the g in beige, with a long I. "Zhaif"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nobody mentions the people who pronounce it G-I-F

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's why we pronounce JPEG as Jay-Pheg.

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