Hard G club
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Seriously. I will not conflate an image format with a brand of peanut butter.
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The good old Jraphics Interchange Format.
Hang on, I can never find it when it's relevant. Where's that gif of the giraffes passing pictures back and forth?
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It is both. There is room in this world for two pronunciations of words.
I pronounce it 'gif' myself
I know people who pronounce it both ways, so I understand that it is both.
With a username like that, I would expect that since you're drunk on Apple wine & therefore probably screw it up yourself... 😜
Your username checks out.
Yeah, like you're the first to tell me that.
Explanation: Around the turn of the millennium, I was trying to come up with a username to use on a particular site that had a shortish character count limit for usernames. My goal was something related to the fact that I would often be making my points in arguments with "holier-than-thou" types by taking what they were saying, and turning it on its head so the offensive stuff was directed back at them.
I also happened to learn shortly beforehand that many years ago "'ape" was somewhat commonly used as a verb to mean "imitate" or "copy."
I'm sure you can figure the rest out.
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No, the peanut butter pronunciation aficionados must be suppressed at all costs. It is the only path forward for peace.
But we're the OG nerds. The ones who read about it online and discussed it in forums before anyone was saying it aloud casually. Pronounce it how you want but I will not stand for this soft-g erasure.
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Some speakers pronounce GIF as an initialism rather than an acronym, producing /dʒiː aɪ ɛf/.
Monsters.
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Ah shit, here we jo ajain.
I am going to counter this by pronouncing jpeg as „jay pej“
Sorry, but JIF was already taken by a brand of peanutbutter for almost 30 years before the Graphics Interchange Format was created.
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I accept both form of pronounciation, but I say gif.
Damn woke lib!
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gif as 'n gift, so it in fact das werk dat wae!!
Take that you choosy mothers.
Subtle. I like.
Idiots will argue over anything.
Will not!
But without them, you'd be the low-hanging fruit labeled "idiot."
The fact they have to spell the "correct" way with a J is hilarious to me
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Counterpoint: the official pronunciation sounds like "yiff"; so, no thank you.
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Probably not the only thing you’re wrong about.
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You have no idea!
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Gif is correct, IDGAF what anyone says.
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