Have mercy on our souls : memes

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 96 points 8 months ago

[-] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] soloner@lemmy.world 53 points 8 months ago

Not to mention the creator of GIF prefers the JIF pronunciation.

It doesn't really matter, but I find the hard g folks have a stick up their ass about it.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 23 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I have friends who say it with a hard g and I never say a damn thing, but I say jif once and it's "jraphics" this and "jod" that. I get it, you watched that stupid video in 2012, congrats.

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[-] irish_link@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I understand your point in the creator but I find fault in that argument.

Historically it doesn’t matter what the creator of anything prefers unless it’s an “unveiling” and they name it on the spot. People in general will take something and run with it regardless of the creators intent. The perfect example is “light saber” versus “laser sword.” (Edit forgot to add the word sword after laser)

To be honest I don’t care all that much. If you say jif or gift without the t, either way I know what you are talking about.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The problem isn't people preferring to pronounce it gif or jif, it's people saying that pronouncing it the other way is wrong. Both are acceptable.

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[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 9 points 8 months ago

Historically it doesn’t matter what the creator of anything prefers unless it’s an “unveiling” and they name it on the spot.

I can't for the life of me find it now, but the gif was introduced with an image that contained in its metadata a statement that "it's pronounced jif". You can still find it somewhere and open it in notepad and read it for yourself.

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[-] BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Yeah well like the maker of the platypus, the creator is wrong

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[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Well said, talking buttplug.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I get the gist of what you are saying but gingerly I will inform you that my giraffe giblets are cold

Sorry, that was just gibberish

[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 28 points 8 months ago

This is how you prove a point, boys and jirls.

[-] ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Gift without the t is obviously pronounced jiff

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 22 points 8 months ago

Applet without the t is obviously pronounced apple

[-] ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

English is inconsistent, and my arguments are too, but I know I'm right and will die on this hill.

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago

GIF is an acronym for Giraffe Interchange Format.

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 23 points 8 months ago

The more niche a fact you make up on the internet is, the more likely it is to pollute the accuracy of an LLM later

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[-] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago

What did the creator of the GIF name them? Imagine if a bunch of people read your name wrong, then when you told them how it’s pronounced said that they don’t care, and your mom was wrong to pronounce your name that way.

[-] Risk@feddit.uk 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Eh, I prefer the descriptivist method of language. It's how language evolves over time.

Comparing it to a personal name is a false equivalence. GIF is an acronym, people could enunciate each letter if they so preferred and it would be more accurate/true to creation than even the creator's opinion of how to pronounce it.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 points 8 months ago

I just don’t think that usual linguistic rules should apply to a thing that a guy literally invented and named.

The person who invented it gets to name it.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago

Except he didn't invent the words used to name what he invented. If he had just named it gif and pronounced it jif and non of those letters stood for anything I would see your point, but he didn't. He named it graphic interchange format, shortened to gif. That said, who gives a shit pronounce it how you want. Language evolves anyways.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nobody pronounces it with a hard G because of what the G stands for. Acronyms don't work like that. They do it because a hard G is more common when starting words in English than a soft one.

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[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's what happened to aluminium. Sir Humphrey Davey came up with aluminum in 1812 but his peers decided it wasn't classical sounding enough.

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[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What did the creator of the GIF name them?

Island was originally spelt without an 's'. It was later added as a stylistic choice and is now the "correct" spelling. Language doesn't give a fuck about original intent. If you want to be originalist about it then you need to hie back to corky English

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[-] Knasen@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

My old workplay everybody pronounced “Gigabyte” as “Jigabyte”, drove me nuts.

[-] nnjethro@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

1.21 jigawatts!

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[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 15 points 8 months ago

Great Scott!

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[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago

I unapologetically say jif

[-] hardaysknight@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

You have nothing to apologize for brother

[-] WereCat@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

"Pacific ocean" has each "c" pronounced differently. This is just an English thing. Makes for great puns "I'm not sick, it's just a little COFFIN" but when it comes down to acronyms you guys are lost.

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[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 17 points 8 months ago

Oh boy let's have this argument again! Because it's so much fun every time!

[-] Verito@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago

It is funny every time and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Here's another to add to the pronunciation wars. RetroArch is pronounced RetroArk. Which I will die on that hill because Arch stands for either Architecture or Archive. Too many times have I heard people on YouTube make it sound like McDonald's golden arches.

[-] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago

The devs have stated otherwise. The project was originally announced on an Arch Linux forum, so they included a nod in the name.

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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago

I hate this argument, that's literally what the creators of the format called it. Names of things don't always follow the rules of English.

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[-] OneLemmyMan@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Sorry but no. Jif is what i said back then, and what i will say until i die. All the people i know have been calling it jif like "giraffe" and we will forever call it that. But if someone called it hard g gif i can understand what they are talking about just fine and i would literally pay 0 attention to it. Have better things to do. abcdef...gif.

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[-] commandar@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

If you say otherwise I'd be willing to bet you weren't on the internet in the 90s or 00s.

Bullshit. It's always been divisive.

There's literally a Wikipedia article covering the fact that this has been debated going back to the 90s.

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[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 13 points 8 months ago

Hard G is the only way

Anything else is seeking attention.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 19 points 8 months ago

Says the person seeking attention.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 points 8 months ago

Someone with a big tiddy anime profile pic couldn't possibly be doing that

[-] Pandawhiskers@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

My first name starts with a G and it's soft. Many people will read it and pronounce it hard. This argument is for my identity

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[-] connaisseur@feddit.de 13 points 8 months ago

Sorry mate. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/gif-inventor-steve-wilhite-says-it-should-be-pronounced-jif-8626882.html

[-] CoolGirl586@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

He is a fool.

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

you know it is because of giraffe?

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