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this is like the dude who invented GIF thinking everyone was going to call it "jiff". it ain't happening, broski.
The G stands for Jraphics
jay-pheg
It's pronounced "emm-preg."
Am I... Mpegante? Mpegananat?
Thank you, I needed this comment.
Rough day.
It's pronounced gay-peg /jk
The format was originally designed to interchange animated palettised depictions of giraffes, so Giraffic Interchange Format made sense. They just changed the acronym when they realised that by storing different colours in the palette, you could depict things other than giraffes.
In no world does that collection of words ring true, regardless of context.
But why would you?
GPUs were originally created to render giraffes faster, hence the name. The fact that they're also useful for gaming are as coincidental as their usefulness for crypto mining and LLMs.
A gif is just the output format after running loads of OpenGiraffeLib code through a GPU.
Yeah, just like the U stands for oonderwater in SCUBA, or the P stands for potographics in JPG!
That or Giraffe Interchange Format
This should be part of ISO
Welcome to... Jraphic Park!
It's pronounced gif
I have always pronounced git as get (mostly because of accent) bit I watched a video the other day, and they pronounced it as Jit and my whole world fell apart. Was I pronouncing it wrong? Are they dumb? Was this secretly a gif jiff issue?
I have to deal with rej-ex (regex) and red-diss (Redis) at work a lot.
The privilege in living in a normally German talking country is that we donβt have the gif and regex problem
https://youtu.be/bmqy-Sp0txY
ZHAIF 4 LAIF!
:)
What about HiFi though? The Fi comes from fidelity, yet it's pronounced like the fi in finite.
English is weird
It is called jiff tho?
yes, the J comes from Jraphics
Giraffes in shambles
alright start saying jfeg
jpej
Well, it's not the P that's read like an F, it's PH that's read like an F. If it was jpheg it would be read jfeg.
Idk why youβre being downvoted, jfeg makes 0 sense
I didn't downvote either of you, but here is why I disagree. The P is inseparable from the H in this situation. I would pronounce the P as half of a PH if I could, but "puh" is nothing like the first half of the sound "phuh".
Iβm just realizing that they must be gettinf the ph from the P in JPEG standing for Photographic. Iβm guessing the argument is that gif is pronounced like gift (germanic root) vs giraffe (latin/italian) because graphics has a hard g. But if gif was a word thereβs obviously some people who would pronounce it that was, if jpeg was a word, we probably wouldnβt say Jay-pehg but nobody would pronounce the p like a ph so thereβs no need to resort to the component words of the acronym.
I have a very negative aura about myself.
To be fair once you make a word from an acronym, it doesn't really matter what the pronunciation of the individual words was.
Jif is a peanut butter brand
Mmm, creamy
I'll never have to buy toilet paper again!
Edit: Also, I like the taste of citrus so that's nice too!
not any more than gnome is called guh-nome.
It's obviously pronounced "jif" just like giraffe.