Why "gif" (as in giraffe) is the right pronunciation for gif

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Because if you pronounce it like gift and are talking about more than one... gifs and gifts sound exactly the same, which can extremely confusing
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Damn_Underscore posted...
gifs and gifts sound exactly the same
Do you have a speech impediment that keeps you from pronouncing the letter T?
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Damn_Underscore posted...
gifs and gifts sound exactly the same, which can extremely confusing
That just seems more like your own inability to parse context.
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gif (like gift) sounds less stupid so thats why i use it. i dont need some linguistic reason
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G as in Graphical
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divot1338 posted...
G as in Graphical

https://i.imgtc.com/MGGa6Os.gif
Right but then people are always thinking youre talking about peanut butter

divot1338 posted...
G as in Graphical

Care to extend that reasoning to JPEG (P stands for Photographic which has an F sound), or will you be hypocritical?
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Paragon21XX posted...
Care to extend that reasoning to JPEG (P stands for Photographic which has an F sound), or will you be hypocritical?

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There was a time when people insisted you say jif. It will become trendy again eventually
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Paragon21XX posted...
Care to extend that reasoning to JPEG (P stands for Photographic which has an F sound), or will you be hypocritical?
do ppl actually say jay-peg? i just read the letters

not that i care about the g means graphics reasoning
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I don't eat Jif.

Paragon21XX posted...
Care to extend that reasoning to JPEG (P stands for Photographic which has an F sound), or will you be hypocritical?
Japanese peg.
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Didn't the guy who created the gif say it's jif. I'll go with what the creator says.
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The creator of the format said it's JIF.
How quaint.
The GIF specification says it's a soft G (jif), so that's the correct answer.
I know the actual correct way is supposed to be like the peanut butter but I pronounce it with a g sound like in gift. I dont care if its wrong, it sounds better.
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Dungeater posted...
do ppl actually say jay-peg? i just read the letters
I've only ever heard jay-peg (and em-peg).
tankboy posted...
I've only ever heard jay-peg (and em-peg).
ive never heard it pronounced in my life. never even seen the second thing, wtf is an mpeg

is it like male preggers
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Dungeater posted...
ive never heard it pronounced in my life. never even seen the second thing, wtf is an mpeg

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Dungeater posted...
do ppl actually say jay-peg? i just read the letters

not that i care about the g means graphics reasoning

Dont think I have heard anyone say j p g instead of jay-peg.
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I say it with a hard g, and if anyone corrects me I call them a nerd and tell them to shut the fuck up.
http://i.imgur.com/XAMp8.jpg
I use the hard g pronunciation, but only because I don't want anyone getting confused and thinking I'm suddenly talking about peanut butter for some fucking reason, because then I'll have to waste time correcting them. If Jif wasn't a thing, I'd absolutely be using the soft g pronunciation.
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Damn_Underscore posted...
Because if you pronounce it like gift and are talking about more than one... gifs and gifts sound exactly the same, which can extremely confusing

If you pronounce it with a soft G
Gif and peanut butter Jif sound exactly the same, which can get extremely confusing
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Tenlaar posted...
Do you have a speech impediment that keeps you from pronouncing the letter T?
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divot1338 posted...
G as in Graphical

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SauI_Goodman posted...
Didn't the guy who created the gif say it's jif. I'll go with what the creator says.

C_Pain posted...
The creator of the format said it's JIF.

A quote from this article:

www.fastcompany.com/90466800/jif-trolls -the-world-by-rebranding-as-gif-with-a-hard-g (delete the space after "trolls" -- stupid GFAQs limits).

Chung recounts when Wilhite actually wrote him, and explained Giphy was butchering the whole thing. Chung countered that the gif, with the hard g, is something different than what Wilhite had invented. Those early construction signs of the internet had evolved through mass cultural re-appropriation. They became mini movies that spread across the internet, vital to the way we communicate. And the people sharing these files called them gifs with the hard g.

We got to an agreement where he was like, you can totally use gif, Chung laughs, who notes the only people who still say jif are either from San Francisco or really old.

Edit: I've never tried this before so if it doesn't work . . .

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Edit 2: Damn, that was easy! I should've tried that a long time ago!
Paragon21XX posted...
Care to extend that reasoning to JPEG (P stands for Photographic which has an F sound), or will you be hypocritical?
If it was JPhEG you would have a point. Name a word that without the "h" following it a "p" sounds like an "f".

And before you call me a hypocrite, I don't say gif(t) because the "g" stands for "graphical" but because that's how I heard others pronounce it. And to me it makes perfect sense.

For AWOL. I say "a-wall" because that's how I've always heard even though it doesn't really make sense.

Or WYSIWYG. I didn't even know anyone tried to pronounce that until a friend said, "whizzy-wig" and I was just dumbfounded. Okay, whizzy-wig it is.

How we pronounce words isn't determined by "inventors" or what is proper or even logical, but how our community has decided to. That's why even in the US or UK or Indonesia or China or where ever, you have dozens or hundreds of different accents and/or dialects.

If the majority of the internet community says gif with a hard g, that's how it's pronounced, like it or not.
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I just say jif, but I don't care how other people say it. Plus, how often do people actually talk about gifs in real life as opposed to online? It rarely even comes up.

viewmaster_pi posted...
oh wait no i don't because they still don't fucking embed properly

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/9483-imagefaqs

This browser script lets you embed images (including gifs) uploaded to other sites instead of using the built-in embedder. Then just upload them to an image hosting site like imgur.com or freeimage.host and direct-link to them here.

https://iili.io/JGWCJKQ.gif
https://i.imgur.com/PmF1p9q.jpg
I use both in the same conversation just to mess with people.
C_Pain posted...
The creator of the format said it's JIF.
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who tf cares what this dweeb thinks?
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divot1338 posted...
G as in Graphical

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Myzery posted...
"ThE cReAtOr Of ThE FoRmAt SaYs..."

who tf cares what this dweeb thinks?
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Good thing that language is an evolving thing. Otherwise we would be stuck with that dumbasss pronunciation.
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divot1338 posted...
Good thing that language is an evolving thing. Otherwise we would be stuck with that dumbasss pronunciation.
This. Literally never heard a soul pronounce it like the peanut butter aside from him, and he was probably just trolling the internet when he said that anyway.
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Personally I pronounce it "Guyfs"
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Paragon21XX posted...
People with basic respect for others.
I already posted where HE said the hard g is fine. Just stop it with this nonsense.
archizzy posted...
I know the actual correct way is supposed to be like the peanut butter but I pronounce it with a g sound like in gift. I dont care if its wrong, it sounds better.

It doesn't, though
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Saying it like my peanut butter just sounds stupid.
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Paragon21XX posted...
Care to extend that reasoning to JPEG (P stands for Photographic which has an F sound), or will you be hypocritical?
The letter P only phonetically sounds like the letter F when it is paired with the letter H. Basically its not JPHEG.

The letter G to my knowledge doesnt have that same stipulation. Thats why its kinda ambiguous in its pronunciation.
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It's not just that the creator says it's pronounced jif, it's that the actual formal GIF89A specification (from 1989) declares it. Anything else is noncompliant.
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