Every day we stray further from jod
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how do you pronounce God, goo, grey, great, good, gun, gumption, goofy
plus jif is peanut butter
While I agree with you on how it should be pronounced, not a good argument. Giraffe.
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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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u choose all these unrelated words when theres GIFt
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Yiff obviously
gif. With a hard g, because there is also .jiff and you could not distinguish otherwise.
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.
You realize there are other words people pronounce incorrectly just because they’ve only ever read it right?
Pronunciation of words is decided by consensus - and while of course people mispronounce things, what that means is, they pronounce it differently from the accepted cultural norm.
We don't get all in a knot because Americans prove things differently from British people - even though they originally set the rules for English. And we don't pronounce things the way we do because George Washington (being analogous to wilhite (or whatever his name was)) told us to; we pronounce things as we do because of cultural consensus.
Wilhite's intention was literally to use the name recognition of the peanut butter to further his own success - which, like, who cares - but the simple fact that he made that decision (and to be clear, regardless of our opinion on copyright, is a bad way to make the decision) strongly implies that he was aware that his pronunciation was unnatural.
The fact that this conversation even comes up is proof that culturally we reject wilhite's pronunciation. It's a lost battle - the only reason I get involved in these threads is because I have a hard time watching the same 3 talking points (on both sides) and the same 3 rebuttals - all of which attempt seem to use facts and logic to determine "correct" pronunciation - when the truth is, the pronunciation has already been decided, and soft-G pronounces deserve to understand it.
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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.
Like a sane person. Why do you ask?
Hard G because it eliminates ambiguity that it might have a j in it. There actually is a jif format but it never got popular. Another reason is I can't think of another word starting with gif than gift
It's not jraphics interchange format
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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Gif as in Gift
Not gif like gel?
Nope, not even close. It's followed by an E.
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New one I just became aware of:
How does everyone say SQL?
I go back and forth between "Ess Cue Ell", "Sequel", and "You Fucking Whore"
This is what we do at work.
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My dad has used SQL forever and calls it "Sequel."
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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It's an initialisation, not an acronym, so it's only:
Ess-queue-ell.
Surely anything else is madness
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Ess-Cue-Elle
I call it sequel but I've heard squirrel and squeal.
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I pronounce it 'yiff'.
heef, spanish style
Death to America
This stupid fucking argument is proof humans will never achieve world peace
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Gif. Obviously.
Imagine talking in a language where people cant decide how words are pronounced
Jpeg should be pronounced gaypeg whenever someone else chooses to pronounce gif as jif. Change my mind.
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Or you can pronounce it "heef" as in Spanish, just saying
"Choosy developers choose gif."
Oh, so that's what we're going to do today, we're gonna fight?
I just read it as it appears, phonetically, like any other word. Gif.
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G like the g in beige, with a long I. "Zhaif"
xif, to be inclusive
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