Gif creator says it's pronounced "jif"

yott peg

It's a soft G, like gigawatt.

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don't give two shits about the creators opinion, it's pronounced with a hard g sound

He's wrong though.

JPEG owns .jif, though.

>creator thinks he's cleverly skirting copyright
>literally no one pronounces it Jiff
>suddenly faced with the fact he isn't all that clever
>lashes out at people about it for the next 20 years
What a faggot. I mean that sincerely.

>With the latter, people are going to think you're saying, "I sent you a gift."
Has anyone ever been confused about this?
Why would you assume "gift" when there is no "t"?

>Has anyone ever been confused about this?
Yes. I chose that example because I've specifically experienced it on multiple separate occasions.
>Why would you assume "gift" when there is no "t"?
Unless you're a news anchor who over-pronounces every single syllable that leaves your mouth, most people will assume you said, "gift" and not "giff."
Especially if you're talking over the phone.

Pronouncing it with a J is just as gay as its creator.
Jow Forums uses the hard Jow Forums

>look mom i posted it again!

>>literally no one pronounces it Jiff
everyone tech literate called it jiff
everyone that thought a video file was also a gif called it "gyff"

i'm still calling it Gif, fuck him

God I think my friend Greg was right about that thinG he said about hard G's makinG the actual factual G sound.

Herb or Erb
Tomatoe or Tomatow

It doesn't fucking matter now POST CUTE ASIAN GIRLS

The guy had a stroke that made him semi-retarded. It's gif period.

So basically you're a retard.

I wouldn't expect you to understand seeing as the only social interaction you have with others is through writing on the internet.

dumb nigger

If ONLY that were true.

>everyone tech literate called it jiff
No. Most tech literate people used a hard G because they knew what it stood for and didn't bother to check what the creator wanted.

that's just a heavy handed implication

This

Making up a word does not mean you get to change how language works

And the original isn't?

no
that doesn't break any rules on how language works

>no
Yes. Yes, it is.
You just won't admit it because it's your own argument.

oops I mean no it is, not no it isn't, sorry

That's obviously read "hif" (hard h sound), don't know what you're talking about.

Name another acronym that's not pronounced the same way as the first letter of the first word

because English writing system is retarded and has no rules

ATLAS (All Terrain Lifter Army System)

How is it not?

jiggaplease

strong /æt/ (at) =/= /ɔl/ (all)

GNOME retard

>Uh-wall
>Americans

THE ULTIMATE ANSWER :
youtube.com/watch?v=CBtKxsuGvko

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>Making up a word does not mean you get to change how language works
OK but the thing is that abbreviations don't have to follow ANY linguistic rules because they aren't words at all.
The 'rule' of each letter in an abbreviation having to make a sound respective to the context of their use in the full words and not within the abbreviation is one entirely made up by you.
And even then, in that made-up rule, there are exceptions. "Gin," "ginger" and "giraffe," for example.

you'd rather add 4 syllables to your sentence and use a generally more awkward terminology than just say "jiff?"

I'm just going to call it yiff. Seems like a good compromise.

if gif had a hard g, so would gin

;3

>you'd rather
Lol look at this prescriptivist idiot. He thinks people will understand when he says jiff. Good thing he doesn't actually talk to other people.

People are often more likely to understand jiff more than giff when used in context, don't be retarded.

For me, it's extra crunchy Jif.

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Well yeah the creator of [g]if is a fucking retard and can't into phonetics.

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gist
gin
giant
gist
ginger
genius
gesture
giraffe
gym
gibberish
gigantic
genuine
gel
gif

idk, seems to check out.

>NO, IT'S PRONOUNCED "SCUBBA"
>SELF-CONTAINED [U]NDERGROUND BREATHING APPARATUS
>STOP SAYING SCUBA YOU ASSHOLES

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BTFO
howtoreallypronouncegif.com/

You're right! and Gnome is pronounce GUH-NOME because of the G coming from GNU! I am Smart!

Can we stop pretending you actually know what goes into English pronunciation?

>literally the only argument was "dude, take the word gift and remove the t. what does that leave you with??? also look at all these other words that start with a hard g."
>a whole website exists just for that

>underground
[U]NDERWATER* but the point still stands

Does it mean that gay is pronnounced jay?

Gay is not an acronym.

>he doesn't know

>Gonorrhea? Awwww Yeeeaaaah!

No. Gas the jifs, pronunciation war now.

This is like jk rowling making up headcanon after the fact again.

The most phonetically similar words are "gift" or "give".

If you say "jiff" you're not wrong, you're just only right by the definition of someone whose pronunciation gains no credibility by being the creator. Look in the mirror and reassure yourself that you're not a douchebag.

It's jif.

that's a different format

Is it.

Couldn't give less of a fuck about his retarded literalwho opinion.

>gift
>give
>guitar
also it's not a word but an acronym

GIF IS NOT A WORD.
THEREFORE, ITS PRONUNCIATION IS DICTATED BY ITS INVENTOR.

THE GUY WHO MADE THE .GIF FORMAT PRONOUNCES IT "JIFF," SO IT'S "JIFF," END OF STORY.

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Who fucking cares
If enough people pronounce it [g]if then it's the accepted version.

I hate English so fucking much. What a fucking abomination of a language.

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Faggot OP probably says its "guh peg"

All languages are abominations in one way or another.
Don't bother trying to prove me wrong because you can't.

>caring about how you pronounce an outdated shitty format
Move on, kids.

Just because he is the creator does not mean he is right.

shut up, pedo

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Yes, it does. He invented the word; he gets to dictate how it's pronounced.

That's not how words work

True.
Good thing "GIF" isn't a word.

That's how nonsense words work.
A nonsense word has no etymology and therefore no reason to abide by any linguistic laws. Therefore its pronunciation can be dictated by the first person who utters it because the rules do not apply.

GIF stands for "Graphics Interchange Format" and is an, "acronym," (like NASA, NAMBLA, AIDS) As an acronym it is considered a word. Some initialisms are also treated as words, despite being spoke as letters (like NSA, CIA, FBI, NBA).

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>As an acronym it is considered a word.
By whom? You?

even if it is a word, which it isn't, it still would most likely be pronounced with a soft g, as most similar words starting with "gi" are.

Every dictionary apparently.

>it still would most likely be pronounced with a soft g, as most similar words starting with "gi" are.
I'm not part of that discussion and don't care.

>not pronouncing NSA, CIA, FBI and NBA as "nizza," "chia," "phoebe," and "nibba" respectively
what the fuck are you even doing

>what the fuck are you even doing

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>Furthermore, arguing about how an abbreviation should be pronounced is pointless because an abbreviated is not a word and thus does not have to follow and grammatical or phonetic rules of any language. So both giff and jiff are right and wrong.

Not in my language lol
We have a rule that if you can pronounce the abbreviation correctly as a word, you should

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