The author calls it JIF. He intended it as Jif because he has butter fingers and like butter brand JIF.
I'm used to hard G though.
And British people made English, but they don't say anything right either.
I know he says it’s pronounced “jif”, but I just don’t care. It’s like “gift” without the t
Let's be honest here, English does not have that level of consistency. "Women" is pronounced with an "i" for christ sake
Say the word "though" in your head. Then add a "t" to it. Would you really argue that "though" and "thought" are pronounced the same simply because they're the same spelling save for a final "t"?
The easiest "rule" is that the creator can decide how to pronounce and spell it lol. Taking English rules that don't even apply 100% of the time to its own words and trying to hold made-up words to the same standards just sounds silly to me haha
G in gif stands for graphics just like how P in jpeg stands for poto
I feel that if you're going to bother people who pronounce it "Jiff" because Graphics, you have to also say "Sc-uh-bÆ" and "Lass-ear" and "ray-dare."
G in gif stands for graphics just like how P in jpeg stands for potato
FTFY
Hard G and soft G are both acceptable pronunciations, the only way to be wrong in the situation is to insist that your preferred way to pronounce it is the only correct way to pronounce it
Oh, except silent G. Silent G is wrong.
Gif you say so
English is phonetically inconsistent, you can find examples to support both ways of pronouncing it.
In English the correct way to pronounce something is the way that will most reliably communicate to your intended audience without ambiguity or distraction.
Since my intention is usually to convey my superior knowledge of trivia and/or to stir shit up, I pronounce it with a soft g.
I don't really care for a logical explanation. JIF just sounds fucking stupid and yall know it.
It's pronounced gif with a hard G.
When I rise to power anyone who disagrees will be immediately found guilty of thought crimes and sentenced to castration, followed by execution, in that order.
Think maybe you need to get out more
We were literally told it was pronounced "jif" by the creator. Sorry if it hurts your little feelings
Whoever invented all the words in that sentence certainly didn't pronounce them like you do.
Wilhite says jif, I use jif. He created it, he gets to name it.
If he didn't want people to pronounce it two different ways he should have spelled it differently.
Right? And people get mad at me for saying gur-affe at the zoo. They should have spelt it different if they wanted me to say jir-affe.
Anyway, back to work on my jithub project.
He didn't tell anyone it was pronounced jif till a great many years later, after most people were pronouncing it gif.
He lost the right to dictate how everyone else pronounces it for that reason alone. So fuck him. =)
Edit: It was made in 1987 and he waited till 2013. Lmao, he lost that fight long ago.
This always attracts pedants whining "the creator said to pronounce it like jif!" and it's like, OK, A) That's an appeal to authority, one of the best known logical fallacies B) The creator of Mother's Day spent over 30 years trying to get people to stop celebrating it, but too bad, I'm still gonna wish my Mom a happy Mother's Day, you know?
Appeal to authority is a fallacy if a non-expert in the field is appealed to. However he was the creator, does he not get to name it?
Don't get me wrong it's a hard g for me too but it's not a fallacy tbh.
it's not an appeal to authority, if the choice was his, not ours, to begin with. Tons of acronyms have letters that are pronounced differently. It could be arbitrary because an acronym is its own separate word.
Divers don't dive oonderwater with their scuba gear. And when they take a camera with them, they don't get the pictures saved as jaypheg files.
The choice can be arbitrary. Since it is, the creator gets to decide. Like whoever discovers a new species of creature gets to name it whatever they like.
I say jif. But when heard someone say jithub instead of github i felt the cringe
This comment section is killing me lmao.
You have people saying that language is fluid, and that one person cannot decide which pronunciation is correct. Then, in that same comment, they say that their preferred pronunciation is obviously correct.
Hard g, soft g, you do you. It really doesn't change much.
Gif stands for "Graphics Interchange Format". If it were pronounced "jif", it would be "Jraphics Interchange Format".
It is a Graphics Card, not a Jraphics Card!
Do you pronounce Sim, Vin, and pin like sime, vine, and pine? The I for all of them stand for identification, so you have to stress the i.
What about ICE? The C stands for customs, you must pronounce it like "ike". Or do you pronounce customs as sustoms?
Look, I say Jif, but this meme is hilarious. Can't we just stop the silly fighting?
No. My hard drive still has 1.21 more jigabytes of free space available for more memes.
Jood Gob with this.
Gesus christ lemmy
such a low quality jPHeg... tsk tsk
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