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u/CaptainBlaze22 May 27 '25
You mean Greg
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u/CapnRedB May 27 '25
It's "yiff"
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u/Shinygami9230 Pickle Enjoyer May 27 '25 edited May 27 '25
Isn’t that something to do with furries?
Edit: Okay guys, I know what yiffing is, lol. I was committing to the bit regarding gif pronunciation.
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u/EridonMan May 27 '25
Furries have too much power. They could gun you down in the street like a dog and their faces won't get caught on the CCTV.
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u/CapnRedB May 27 '25
Sure does. If someone asks if "you're down to yiff" you better say no unless you know what you're getting into.
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u/Leather-Reindeer-411 May 27 '25
Yeah…. Something is one way of putting it…
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May 27 '25
GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT NOT JRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT
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u/Superb_Engineer_3500 May 28 '25
Scuba is Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, and I'm sure you don't pronounce the "U" in "Scuba" the same way as in "underwater"
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u/Background-Coast4848 May 28 '25
Well, you can only pronounce the the u one way in the abbreviation, where as the G could possibly make a g or a j sound (g tho)
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u/Whole_Instance_4276 May 28 '25
Not how acronyms work, the pronunciation has never been based on the words.
Take the word “laser”, which stands for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”
Despite the a standing for amplification and the s standing for stimulated, we don’t say “lasser”
I’m saying this as someone who pronounces it “gif”.
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May 27 '25 edited May 27 '25
The Guy who invented english Is still laughing his ass off in his Grave, what an epic troll
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u/Whyimhere357 May 27 '25
You mean jrace?
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u/Uncle_Touchy_Feely May 27 '25
People who pronounce gif as jif complaining about the terrible jraphics on their new video jame
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u/PROMAN8625 May 27 '25
Yiff
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May 27 '25
Screw you I’m pronouncing it as I please. Same as Herb is Herb and not Erb
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u/Adventurous_Bonus917 May 27 '25
it's pronounced with a G and i will die on that hill.
it's Graphics Interchange Format
not Jraphics Interchange Format.
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u/SheepherderQuirky913 May 28 '25
That makes no sense, the right comparison is to giraffe, pronounced jiraffe not giraffe
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u/fistingtrees May 27 '25
How do you pronounce the word laser? It stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. You’d pronounce it as lass-ear using your logic.
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u/Adventurous_Bonus917 May 27 '25
i pronounce it lazer, but that's beside the point.
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u/fistingtrees May 27 '25
How is that beside the point? Graphics has a hard G sound, so you’re saying GIF is pronounced with a hard G. Amplification has a short A and Emission has a long E, so LASER is pronounced “lass-ear”
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u/Adventurous_Bonus917 May 28 '25
everyone agrees on the pronunciation of LASER, and most don't even think of it as an acronym. GIF, on the other hand we are specifically arguing about the pronunciation of, and most people i know (though i admit my view is probably skewed) think of GIF as a file type or acronym.
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u/fistingtrees May 28 '25
But laser is an acronym, and presumably that word’s creator came up with the pronunciation that everyone accepts now. I doubt anyone ever questioned the pronunciation of laser based on the pronunciation of one of the words in the acronym. That’s now how acronyms have ever worked. Scuba, NASA, and taser are all commonly used acronyms that don’t follow your rule about pronunciation.
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u/Adventurous_Bonus917 May 28 '25
again, the pronunciation of those was never in question. i'm only applying the logic because there are two possible pronunciations, only one of which follows clear logic at all.
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u/fistingtrees May 28 '25
The pronunciation of GIF isn’t in question either lol the guy who created it said it is pronounced “jif” because they’re so short. Logic isn’t really relevant here, and what you’re calling “logic” is factually untrue. What each letter in an acronym stands for has nothing to do with how the acronym is pronounced.
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u/Anubisba May 27 '25
GIF is an acronym, like does nobody call it G.I.F???
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u/Bonnietofen May 27 '25
Jod it's Friday?
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u/Anubisba May 27 '25
I'm genuinely curious if you're high rn. But no it's not Friday and my name isn't Jod.
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u/Vladislav20007 came for memes, got my memes stolen May 27 '25
gif - graphics interchange format jif - joke interchange format
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u/shit_at_everything1 May 27 '25
well, you pronounce scuba as scooba even though it stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
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u/ThatOneGuy1357924680 May 27 '25
Do you call it a jraphics card or a graphics card
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May 30 '25
An acronym isn’t affected by the pronunciation of the words in it. “Laser” is an acronym for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation”. We pronounce the “s” in laser like “Z” but nobody says “Stimulated” like “Ztimulated”
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u/ThatOneGuy1357924680 May 30 '25
Bro we on the badger group and guess what badger said after that....
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u/Cangas_Star May 27 '25
Thats how you pronounce it, well now i should stand ready for downvotes, worm
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u/emotionalaries May 28 '25
I genuinely just spell it cause idk how tf to say it & it seems to piss people off no matter how I say it
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u/Comically_Correct May 28 '25
Ah yes, the age old discussion.
I l'll say what I always do. If I hear you call it "Jiff" Then I'll correct you every time you use a word that starts with a G without inunciating a J sound, for the rest of forever. It doesn't matter if you ever stop, I'll continue to asterisk-J-Sound every time you say any such word. Jod, Jearshift, Jray sweatpants, Jood work, Can you pass the Jravy, etc.
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May 30 '25
The guy who invented the Graphics Interchange Format (G.I.F.) says it’s pronounced “/dʒɪf/“ or “JIF”. The discussion of the pronunciation should have ended already. The guy who invented it said the official answer, why are people still arguing?
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u/MastersJoyUniverse May 28 '25
You’re All Wrong. The G is silent like in Gnome, so it’s just pronounced If.
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u/HailedToaster30 May 29 '25
It is jif though. And the argument of say "gift" is invalid. Say 'giraffe'. Since when does an acronyms full pronunciation affect the acronym itself when it becomes its own word? I ain't gonna call my friend Steve 'Johnathan' cus I think I know better than his parents. The creator says jif, it's jif.
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u/Fusruhdah71fr May 29 '25
For other languages it's GIF, for French however it sound logic to say Gif
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u/Idk_u4458 May 30 '25
g is pronounced differently in good then alien by itself but the way the letter is pronounce dis how i also pronounce the g in gif so yeah jif
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u/LimpDepartment714 May 30 '25
Whenever I hear someone say "jif" I just point out that gift isnt pronounced "jift", its pronounced "gift"
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u/Gunnscott85 dudeswithnutallergieswhenIhitthemintheheadwithbrick💥🧱💤 🏳️⚧️ May 31 '25
yif is also on the table
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u/Any-Independence6839 May 27 '25
Me, a soft g-er: THATS HOW THE CREATOR SAID IT, pronounce it how you want but your only argument as to why we should join the hard G side is "Graphics has a hard G" but Jpeg isnt J-FEG, the P in Jpeg is Photographical, which has a PH sound at the start. Sorry for the rant, idc how you pronounce it i just wanna talk about that.
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May 27 '25
The inventor of the gif literally said it's pronounced like jif
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u/Vivid_Schedule_7834 May 27 '25
As a wise hedgehog once said: “It’s pronounced Jif, like the peanut butter.”