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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

KNEEL BEFORE ZOD

[–] Neato@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

We stray further from Jod

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

It should be a war crime.

[–] Dio@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's what I said. Gif.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I pronounce "salmon", "solder", "colonel", "victual", "gunwale", "vineyard", and "indict" all phonetically. I still insist that they're alternative pronoucniations and not "wrong ways to pronounce them". If that's the case, then say "GIF" however the hell you want.

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

TIL victual is a word.

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[–] nomecks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Since the whole Michael Bublé Bubly advertisements, I like to say Googlé just to watch people roll their eyes.

[–] BigMoe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Makes me think of that tweet where they bring up old English pronunciation and say it could be 'yif

Having issues with mobile, so cant upload the image

[–] HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pronounced however the fuck you want to pronounce it.

I like to pronounce it "jif" because gin, gentle, Germany, gypsy. Others like to pronounce it "gif" because gift, good, game, girl.

Don't pull any bullshit reasons like "it's not pronounced jraphics", because if that argument holds any water, JPEG is jay-feg, scuba is scuh-ba, and laser is lah-seer.

The creator calls it "jif" and wants others to call it "jif". I don't give a shit; if some people want to call it "gif", that's up to them and I'm not stopping them. English is not a prescriptive language; pronunciations will always differ according to origins and regions and accents and generations. I will not misunderstand you if you pronounce it "gif", and you will not misunderstand me if I say "jif".

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

jay-feg

Babe wake up, new pointless acronym controversy just dropped

[–] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Is this one of those me me's I've heard of?

[–] ylai@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

If you say so, Cathy. That's your new name by the way, your parents were clearly wrong because reasons, and Cathy is easier to write so that's you now.

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