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[–] 168 points 2 years ago (70 children)

Somehow, I can tolerate "jpheg" much easier than the forsaken "jif."

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    Jif is where it's at. Peanut butter and image format? Yes please

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (42 children)

    "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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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (27 children)

    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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    [–] 72 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It's pronounced like yiff. I have spoken.

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    [–] 59 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    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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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Helen is wearing socks with sandals. Helen don't give a single phuck.

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (14 children)

    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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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Coming from the jif camp myself, I’d just like to point out it’s jay-phej.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Gif is obviously pronounced like the g's in 'gorgeous'

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (15 children)

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

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  • [–] 115 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    do I look like I know what a "JphEg" is?

    I just want a picture of a got dang hot dog

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    GIF comes from the Old English word "gif," pronounced with a "y" sound.

    So it's yif.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Git is now pronounced Jit.

    JIT, as in the compiler architecture, is now pronounced Git.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you have to spell it wrong to show how you pronounce it that should be a sighn

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Guys.. guys... can we all just agree that it's pronounced gif and not gif?

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    [+] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The J is pronounced like the J in Jesus (Spanish pronunciation)

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    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 β€œsee ya” Department of Transportation β€œDuht” Internal Revenue Service β€œears”

    Etc.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    All of this could be solved if English weren't a shit language with incoherent phonemes.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (18 children)

    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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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Helen wears socks and sandals, and has divergent opinions. Helen needs to disappear in a landfill. Dispatching a team.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Next you’re telling me that LMFAO is called "ellem eff ayo" and not "le mfaaoβ€œ

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Why don't you just pronounce it "gee-eye-eff"?

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    I just want to point out that Lin-Manuel Miranda has been advocating for peace between the hard and soft G clans for more than a decade.

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  • I love how much absolute war is going on in this thread 🀣

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