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Aug 29, 2016 1:08 AM
Velociraptorex
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BigAZNMan
What a gackass!
EvilKam
Not his fault you're wrong.
emilyvin
+
Mittsend
Fuck this stupid argument. Say it how you want, it doesn't matter.
NoLongerFoamingWolffo
^ This is the correct answer on this debate.
NoLongerFoamingWolffo
I've heard people say it both ways (which according to oxford, both are correct). My opinion? If one way upsets you, you need a life.
B0ULLIE
I expected the comments to be violent for some reason
Femail76
TMStage
Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
Thismuchistrue
Let it go.
Velociraptorex
Never!
Geo80
BoogaYooga
I beg to giffer
thesaltywombat
Tomato, tomato go fuck yourself
ErogenousEnigma
Gin
icyvaynes
N is different than F when it comes to pronunciation and when it has more than just I involved.
gebsmith1
If you want to bring English rules into this then you get to choose pronunciation if you create a word. Creator says "Jiff"
englishdoyouspeakitmotherfucker
Tragic, magic Angie the giant giraffe apologized because her middle digit is allergic to rigid imaginary engines. "gi" = soft g. English!
englishdoyouspeakitmotherfucker
Bitches.
WaitinkForOlegScreen
But how do you pronounce "imgur"?
Lugh314159
If Gulliver's Travels were written in the 21st century, he'd meet a group of people at war over how to pronounce GIF.
LordSupergreat
The egg thing is close enough.
ZeroCookie
You mean Julliver's Travels.
aeolk
Indeed
VoicesInTheFan
A friend of mine wanted to give me a gift, but I already had a giant giraffe. I keep it in my garage.
Trump4office
I think it's because giant and giraffe comes from French while gift has a germanic origin. Yeah I'm fun at parties.
VoicesInTheFan
Welcome to the club. We don't throw parties. Actually, while you're on about it, care to tell the class about "give"?
Trump4office
Well in German it's "geben" while in French it's "donner" so almost sure that one has a germanic origin (--> origine in French)
VoicesInTheFan
Well, at least I learned something from registering for the express purpose of making that comment.
Trump4office
You're one of us now.
moonwalkerkn
so what you saying is, that you divorce him over the g spot? http://imgur.com/SbEBdhv
Velociraptorex
moonwalkerkn
http://imgur.com/NfUomRh
Theumbraetant
Damn... didn't know I've been pronouncing giraffe wrong this whole time. Thanks for enlightening me.
Velociraptorex
slyvic
English is a broken language. It's not anyone's fault.
Trump4office
In French a G followed by E I Y will sound like J. In German they all sound hard. Now you have your explanation, it depends on the origin.
MemesAreCancer
I guess you also like to receive jifts and not gifts....
Theumbraetant
I guess you will never do gym, or gymnastics, or even be a general in the military. You poor soul.
MemesAreCancer
I already don't do those things, even before the argument was a huge thing.
Theumbraetant
Point being, it's a stupid argument. The creator intended the acronym to be with a soft g as is the sound "giraffe" makes.
Theumbraetant
So that's what it is.
KingJakers
Popular opinion is on your side. But according to the creator your husband is technically correct. And you know they say about that.
eskamobob1
popular opinion? I dont know a single person IRL that says it with a hard g.
Drougals
That they're both wrong
RedDwarfIV
Giraffe.
purplegundamdeathstar
Just your username. +1
Demauscian
ʒaɪf
graygrif
The creator's reason is fucking stupid. He says it's pronounced JIF because "choosy moms choose JIF (peanut butter)" so "choosy developers 1
graygrif
choose GIF (pronounced JIF)" 2/2
aeolk
You have it backwards mate
becouse
It's pronounced chyve and no amount of argumenting will change my conviction.
Kirbysdad
iamthisguy247
Yet appropriately
thegricemiceter
what are you talking about. saying that it is pronounced "jif" is never appropriate. total low blow.
DobryPolak
Correct response. If my SO says nucular instead of nuclear, we will have to fist fight.
whyisthatsofunny
Except that jif is right.
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Ijustwannagohomeandeatcalzones
well I mean you're still here so clearly not.:D
Trid
...for peanut butter.
Tastar
owenmason
so...you're single?
Cereaza
Twice, same sex marriage.
Learnedtocryinternally
Looks like one of them chicks from the Hansons
owenmason
i dunno man...one of those chichs from Hanson was pretty cute...
CharmingAndSexyGentlemanStarshipCaptain
For them who pronounce it "GIF"
NOINOON
You do remember that @OP is a bundle of sticks, right?
Tastar
Or not.
FermentedCrabSirDavos
You never know man, people evolve.
TheRealSirGregorCleganeTheMountain
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/media/uploads/aug_1_assets/a-exeggutor.png
ExactlyZeroNipplesSeen
It's always the hard G crowd acting like assholes.
TheRaiderofRandom
And yet it's OP threatening divorce unless a soft g is used. By that logic OP is an asshole, but I could've sworn OP is a faggot.
ExactlyZeroNipplesSeen
I'm about 103% sure that you're confused... Read the post again.
regregex
You might call them... G-hard-ists
ChibiYui
Have you seen this comment section? You've got it backwards.
luckyflavor23
Dude who created it calls it Jiff. That's it. You make it, you can name it.
icyvaynes
How do you know he isn't trolling you guy and later says it the other way?
TheRaiderofRandom
The same reason I don't expect any pearls of wisdom in your comment history: first impressions set the tone of ongoing perception and 1/2
TheRaiderofRandom
that perception is not easily changed. Partly out of a bias we have to believe what we first hear even if it's later disproven, and partly2/
TheRaiderofRandom
because when we learn something new which would theoretically rewrite old data, we still retain a willingness to believe old data still has3
TheRaiderofRandom
the potential to be true. Hence we maintain suspicion. 4/4
cliffhero
I have to side with the husband, here.
mormacil
Ex-husband
BeautifulLatinWomen
Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the widely used Web illustration, declared it should be pronounced “jif,” like the brand of peanut butter
Ivebeentothefrontpage
Yup
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UsuallySpecial
It's too bad that every negative comment about someone's language skills has to have a typo.
Velociraptorex
TheRealChoji
Data, Data
Ahoyyhoyy
Ha
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
I once invented all purpose soap as a kid. It cleaned everything. It was made of water and hand soap.
Idsertian
Don't care. Hard G. Saying "jif" is for sycophants and people of weak constitution.
theelvesoflothlorien
And again, he doesn't get to decide.
Ivebeentothefrontpage
So if you invent something you don't want to name it?
ChibiYui
You can name it, but not like a decade after the fact when your invention has been in common use.
Ivebeentothefrontpage
Well I need to go brush my teeth with my terthberth and drive my jape to work. I'd rather be in bed watching terbaversion. I love natflax.
ChibiYui
You've gone off the deep end? Were *any* of those things renamed after years of common use?
slyvic
Too bad the inventor's opinion is WRONG.
batmanmf
Fuck him.
Velociraptorex
Yes.
@tastar
NostrilMonster
Motherfucker do you say jraphics
whyisthatsofunny
I love jraphics park.
DragonsAndWyverndAndWeresOhMy
Giraffe, giselle, etc etc
trout007
Exactly.
LordSupergreat
Why do you consider it a point of pride that you mispronounce a certain word?
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
It's said with the g from 'garage'
Phenome
So... like.. Jiraffe?
Zalbar
The 'garage'? Hey fellas, the 'garage'! Well ooh la-de-da Mr French man! It's called a car hole.
dragonfangs
You're my new hero.
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
Derpetologist
Or 'gigantic'
SuburbanCommando
"Juh-rogg"?
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
Lugh314159
gif.... like gift without the t. See how simple that is?
Glumerlink
why not the g from giles? or Geoff or Gill?
whyisthatsofunny
I see how simple it is to be wrong. Though that's how most pronounce it according to the Creator it's like the peanut butter.
phizatmatt
Exactly this..
painstream
A fine point. It's so easy to get it wrong, even the creator does it!
YoureThat
Or like the G in 'Graphics Interchange Format'
ThatRandomCanadian
Gif... Like Gin with an F instead of N. See how simple that is?
PsychedelicBambii
Yeah, but the g stands for 'graphic'.
echonite
The creator of the damn extension pronounces it like a J. Also acronyms don't always match the words. IE: The E in PETA.
Femail76
That's the least helpful you could be. I like you
FiddlerofFate
I think I could be more help it is pronounced G as in Gagantic
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
<3
Femail76
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
Femail76
ilikehexagons
I demand that anyone who uses the hard G stick to your guns and pronounce JPG with a ph=f sound.
sunamiwater
Gift without a t doesn't make it Jif. That's my reason, and I'm sticking to it. That reason has always been friggin idiotic.
skitchmusic
There're good arguments for Hard G, including reducing homophones and possible confusion made from those..just not 'g for graphics'
IProvideFakeContext
I demand Im allowed to say what I like since English has no rules on acronym pronunciation.
Telkesh
Why not just go with what the creators said? That's what I do with Nutella.
JustASlightJingleOfPocketChangePulsing
I whole heartedly agree except jif for gif...
Pagliacci13
Actually the "rule" is it is pronounced how the creator wants... So in this case soft G (gin, giraffe, gentleman, gif)
icyvaynes
Yeah we do. If we say it like a word it follows those rules. Or was that just the college I went too.
IProvideFakeContext
In the case of that argument, when have English speakers ever given a flying fuck about consistency in how something is pronounced.?
MasterPrime
There are rules to both pronouncing acronyms and initialisms and the palatalization of g. You just don't know what they are.
IProvideFakeContext
Than educate me. With proper citations.
MasterPrime
Acronyms create their own words and aren't pronounced based on the word they represent. so GIF would be it's own word. [1/?]
MasterPrime
The rules of palatalization aren't technically English developments. Instead it's a borrowed rule from romance languages. [2/?]
jotasprout
Wow. You just became my hero.
TimeFoDat
The "J" in JPEG stands for "Joint" so why would you pronounce it like that? Just curious.
liveandletrawr
Their point is that the P stands for photograph. If gif must be a hard g because of "graphics", jpeg must me jfeg because of "photograph"
TimeFoDat
Ah. That's not unreasonable actually although the greater argument is simply that what's popular is what's right & hard "G" seems to win.
MasterPrime
by that argument, Trump is an excellent politician.
TimeFoDat
Don't be silly, I'm talking about human language. In the world spoken word, what's understood is what people consider "right".
Trid
I'd sooner adopt that than jif.
hitshappens
No thank you.
QuiGonGuinn
stayawhilestayforever
What the hell are you talking about!?
somedudesmusic
Jpeg stands for joint photograph experts group. So if you pronounce gif with a hard g then you should pronounce jpeg as 'jayfeg'
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
who pronounces jpg? seriously, it's a picture. you pronounce it 'picture'. sometimes 'image'
314159td
There is more than one file extension dedicated solely to images
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
yeah but how often do those extensions need to be expressly vocalised?
IDSCI
I believe the general rule is "If it sounds stupid, don't say it." Which is why both the hard g and the jpeg pronunciation are correct.
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IDSCI
Well yeah, but mentioning the pronunciation of it in a discussion about it; on a post about it; is kinda one of the non-stupid ways :P
RyanHaynes
Fair point, but since I'm an asshole, I pronounce it J.P.G.
westparchment
you're a jayfeg
stayawhilestayforever
phajit
Lugh314159
...except that jpg is short for J-PEG. GIF is short for Graphic Image Format. Graphic. Hard G. ((GIFT - T = GIF Simple))
cdrodgers90
By that logic, Scuba should be pronounced Scubba because the U in Scuba stands for Underwater. Short U sound.
Trid
Or just say "oonderwater" Problem solved.
whyisthatsofunny
Tho I agree with the breakdown, whoever invented it gets to make the call and he says it's like the peanut butter.
Anonaru
It's an acronym, but also a proper name, so "Jona" minus "a" becomes "Jon," which is "Joan" obviously
Anonaru
"flux" minus the X becomes flu, or otherwise obviously pronounced "fluh"
Anonaru
"area" minus the "a" becomes are, or air-ree because this rule !
Anonaru
"bath" stays the same without that pesky h!
daromander
Isn't the P in J-PEG stand for photo? And thus the "f" sound?
HillOfBeans
I love you and I upvoted you back to the surface. Best I can do, buddy.
icyvaynes
You make a point.
Burritoheart
yeah but it isn't written as JPHEG
Tanishh
And gif isn't written as GRIF. What the heck is your point?
Burritoheart
P never makes an F sound, G often makes a hard G sound. How we pronounce JPEG isn't relevant.
Anonaru
Giraffe+ creator's own sentiments on the matter. I have a bigger beef with "epitome" and "colonel" since they break rather 1/
IJUSTMADETHEVOICEINYOURHEADYELL
MY PARENTS CREATED ME, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE ALWAYS RIGHT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ME.
Anonaru
..But they have a moderate amount of sway as to how your name is officially pronounced. Who said anything about always right?
Anonaru
universal rules in our language. The creator of .gif could call it Jay-eyeff and he wouldn't be breaking any linguistic rule, what is 2/
Anonaru
so bad about "jiff?"
Darklinear
Chunky is ok, it still ain't no Peter Pan Peanut Butter though
swalters
Except that gif is an acronym, like radar and scuba, meaning that it was meant to be pronounced. Jpg and JPEG are just abbreviations.
liveandletrawr
No? They're both acronyms (which are themselves a type of abbreviation).
HillOfBeans
Yeah but I still say Jay peg. But I am 100% in the jif camp!
swalters
JIF stands for JPEG Interchange Format, which is an extension to the JPEG format.
HillOfBeans
noooooooooo it does not. It stands for Giraffic Interchange Format.
ImSureIHaveAnAccount
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#JPEG_files