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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

In English the correct way to pronounce something is the way that will most reliably communicate your intended meaning to your intended audience without unintended ambiguity or distraction.

Since my intention is usually to communicate my superior knowledge of trivia and/or to stir shit up, I pronounce it with a soft g.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The letter G is obviously pronounced like in the word: "gigantic".

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

Or maybe like in the word "garage"

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

Pronouncing it as "gif" is wrong on so many levels...

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

I'd thought it's pronounced like in the word 'graphic'.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, my "joke" was that there's two G's in gigantic and it's two different sounds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reminiscent of the Spielberg dinosaur hit movie "Graphic Park".

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

I heard then both say it the right way in my head so there

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

Piss off everyone: Dutch pronunciation. The G sounds like you're ripping up a newspaper.

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

Chif...

Hah! Reminds me of the German word Flugzeugträger... if spoken in a cologne accent the three Gs will all be pronounced differently and none of them actually like G.

Fluchzeuschträjer.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't gif a fuck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use PNG or MP4 instead.

Is it also soft G in PNG? So it's PNJ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

PNG rhymes with

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

So is it one representative or the entirety of Papua New Guinea that handles it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Those images can get large, you need a whole country to till, and rotate the crop.

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

I think this is how it's pronounced: my name is jeff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When will Lemmy support the gif format?

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