GIF

[Sarge]

yawn

[Mateusz_Zboj]

Furries spotted. Man those flamethrower turrets! NOW!

[burgingham]

yawn

[whiskeypete]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10072420/Creator-of-the-GIF-says-it-is-pronounced-Jif.html

Bullshit. 'GIF' stands for 'Graphics Interchange Format'. 'Graphics' is pronounced with a hard G, therefore so is the acronym.

[DDDsDD999]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10072420/Creator-of-the-GIF-says-it-is-pronounced-Jif.html

so please tell me, how many of you were pronouncing it "jif" correctly? i had always thought it to be "gift without t"
(yes, kaios, sorry i stole your explanation!)

p.s.
i hear swedish call it "yif" (thanks nicole, one ramen burger for you!)

Always called it "jif", the hard g sounds weird and wrong.

[Tonkyhonk]

Always called it "jif", the hard g sounds weird and wrong.

whut? i never heard you calling it "jif" you always said "gif"!


anyways, ok, so 3 more ppl calling it jif, 1 G.I.F., no yif yet. thanks guys!

[Flame]

i gain advantage form my language.
Jif forever \o\
(we don't pronounge G-if (like gift). it's wrong for our rules. It should be written Ghif to have the engligh..hemm english G)

yahiiii \o\
What i win?


Ps: Anyway..graphic is with the hard g. So... why o.o?

[Tonkyhonk]

Ps: Anyway..graphic is with the hard g. So... why o.o?

lol thats why some people tell the creator to fuck off


which actually makes me wonder.
how do you all pronounce "RAID"? (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks)
i was reading it as "raid" [ei] as in "paid", but Array's A is a schwa (the upside down e in IPA [ə]).
if many people think GIF should be with hard g because of the original word graphics, should "RAID" be pronounced as [əi] or maybe [ai] of "ride" instead of [ei] "raid"? (i know [əi] cannot happen with a diphthong, but just trying to make it consistent.)

'CEM - Combined Effects Munition' should be pronounced like "chem" of chemistry, while 'CEP - Circular Error Probable' should be pronounced as "except" cep?

[borka]

Tonky i guess you have too many pronounciation problems in your cache

[Flame]

for what i know, in italian is:
When you have a word (that is a mix of words), you read it as u see it. So C.E.R.N. is Cern. No weird pronuncion, no matter the original words that create it.

BUT
In english the rule is reversed. You don't have to read the word like if is a word. you pronunce the single letters. So it's:
C.E.R.N. = Ci Ei Er En
G.I.F = Gh Ei Ef

prolly how i'm writing it won't sound good for you (I HATE U! LATIN IS THE ONLY TRUE LANGUAGE! *add here shitty complaining etc*), but anyway the english rule say that you can't read it like a normal world. You have to spell it, letter by letter.

So both Jif and Gif are WRONG because you should say G... I... F... XD So, probably, the creator own the truth 'cuz he decides.
(or maibe, american rules are differents?)