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Is it gif or gif?
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Remember to pronounce scuba like Bubba.
Or laser like with long e.
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Lol calling people stupid because they don't pronounce something the same way you do.
What. Is. Your. Point. When you're making a new word, which is what an acronym is, the original individual words mean fuck all.
It's a joke comment in a joke thread, take it easy there buck-a-roo.
Taking your statement as true, the pronunciation of gif is up to the people who speak it as a word. In this case there just happens to be another example where the g stands for graphical and uses the hard g... GUI (gooey) Graphical User Interface. So, not only do the majority say gif with a hard g, there is also a precedent in the same industry. You should pronounce it however you want (maybe the f is silent, maybe its a hard i like iPhone), but, pronouncing gif with a soft g is in the minority and against precedent.
Also not all acronyms are words.
In my framework which I consider the only reasonable and consistent one where the base words have no bearing on how you say the created word, it is just a coincidence that an acronym that derives from "graphical" ends up with a hard g instead of a soft. I advocate for the coexistence of hard and soft g's, so this is fine if GUI ends up gooey and GIF ends up jif. Soft g's don't typically (or maybe even ever I don't know) come from "gu." So this isn't precedent for anything. It's how I would expect the words in my framework to work.
And naturally I reject your appeal to "well you're in the minority"
Non-word acronyms are kind of irrelevant so let's just take acronym to mean a word formed by the letters of a term and not also the ones that are just spoken letters.
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It's spelled "g-i".
giant, gigantic, gingersnap, giraffe
margin, magic, rigid, sluggish, tragic, digit , engine
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giant, gigantic, gingersnap, giraffe
margin, magic, rigid, sluggish, tragic, digit , engine
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It comes from not being a monster and first using the acronym before moving on to the shorthand. Decent folk started saying each letter in sequence. G, I, F. Say that for a while and you shorten it to "jif" because that's how you pronounce the letter "G" by itself.
Doesn't matter what he says. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. Do you say graphics with a soft G?
It doesn't matter what it stands for.
Do you pronounce ATM as Ah-T-M? It stands for Automated Teller Machine.
No, because a normal person says "ATM" by saying the individual letters, A T M, not as one word.
"gi" makes a soft "g" or j sound with very few exceptions. I'd say you were raised properly.
The original name was a play on this
The dude created gifs. He'd do anything to fuck with people, I don't trust him.
You're not in the minority, I've seriously never meant anyone in real life that used hard g, maybe it's an American thing.
That's not how acronyms work. The pronunciation of the overall acronym doesn't stem from the sound the first letters of the component words made. People invent acronyms to convey complex names for things in a way people can remember. I made an acronym once and deliberately stylized it a certain way for a specific pronunciation. It's up to the creator because they're the one trying to convey the meaning.
It is how they work. A G not pronounced J.
The creator was wrong which is why pretty much no one says jif.
Also, the creator cannot dictate how people pronounce it. So we'll follow logic instead of their intent.
Say the letter "G" and you're making the same sound as the "j-" in "jif". It absolutely can be pronounced however the inventor intended. Because acronyms are designed to be simplify a long name, inventors like to imbue them with Mnemonic devices. Like "choosy programmers choose GIF". So it has a dual meaning, and without that, you aren't actually referring to the original designation.
only reasonable stance at this point is that it's both
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treat it as regional and move on. no one is confused with either
tomato tomato
treat it as regional and move on. no one is confused with either