- Semi-Hemi-Demigod ( @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ) 27•1 year ago
I will face Jod and walk backward into hell before I say “jiff”
- MrZigZag ( @MrZigZag@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
Clearly you’re not a choosy mom.
- Dandroid ( @dandroid@dandroid.app ) 2•1 year ago
How do you say gin or giraffe? Or literally the letter G?
- Shaikan ( @Shaikan@programming.dev ) 2•1 year ago
I pronounce them like Gin and Giraffe
- DreadPirateShawn ( @DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 16•1 year ago
Like the G in “gigantic”.
And “gigolo.”
- Nyla Smokeyface ( @Nyla_Smokeyface@beehaw.org ) 14•1 year ago
I was devastated to learn the creators intended it to be pronounced “jif” like the peanut butter brand
- Surface_Detail ( @Surface_Detail@lemmy.ml ) 13•1 year ago
Yeah, because it’s a jraphical interface format.
- kittenspronkles ( @kittenspronkles@lemmy.ml ) 22•1 year ago
So do you say j-feg? Because the p stands for photographic
- pythonoob ( @pythonoob@programming.dev ) 8•1 year ago
One of the common nonsensical arguments heard. What’s the next one?
- KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX ( @KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Giraffical
- SeedyOne ( @SeedyOne@lemmy.ca ) 12•1 year ago
One of the few times I don’t care what the creator says, he was wrong.
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English9•1 year ago
And yet your mind knows it’s not possible for him to be wrong since he named it.
- Taako_Tuesday ( @Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca ) 5•1 year ago
Me too. I feel like no one pronounced it jif before they said that, and now we have to have an eternal debate over it
- snowe ( @snowe@programming.dev ) 6•1 year ago
That’s literally how every programmer pronounced it before it became an Internet sensation. It had a marketing campaign to “sell” the format because that’s how new standards were created initially. They explicitly chose to name it after the peanut butter because it allowed them to give it a catchy phrase to sell it even better “choosy developers choose gif”.
- Dandroid ( @dandroid@dandroid.app ) 1•1 year ago
I say dʒɪf, but the way the person who invented it wants you to say it is a really dumb basis for how something is pronounced, imo.
- Pixelphoria ( @Pixelphoria@lemmy.ml ) 14•1 year ago
Jraphic interface format really sounds right /s
- SkyeCat ( @SkyeCat@kbin.social ) 16•1 year ago
Let me just get my Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus ready /s
- quibgobbler ( @quibgobbler@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
Light aimplification by ztimulated emission of radiation just has a nice ring to it /s
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
I believe that’s “uhmission”
- quibgobbler ( @quibgobbler@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
You are correct, my apologies
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
National Aeronautics and Space Uhdministration /s
- Player2 ( @Player2@sopuli.xyz ) 12•1 year ago
Yiff
- Cyberwitch_7493 ( @Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•1 year ago
Um, I don’t know how to tell you, but that means a wiiiildly different thing. 🤣
- iamak ( @iamak@infosec.pub ) 11•1 year ago
Why do people have to pronounced it in any way? Why not say G-I-F? I’ve been saying it like that since before I knew about the huge debate💀
- snowe ( @snowe@programming.dev ) 8•1 year ago
Cuz the devs explicitly named it after the peanut butter and even gave it a catchphrase to make sure you pronounced it correctly. It was a marketing campaign. “Choosy developers choose gif”.
- seitanic ( @seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ) 7•1 year ago
How do you pronounce JIF, then? (That’s the JPEG Interchange Format.)
- snowe ( @snowe@programming.dev ) 5•1 year ago
The same way? There’s thousands of words in the English language with the same pronunciation and different spellings. This isn’t the dunk you think it is.
Besides, gif existed first. If JIF wanted to use the name without confusion maybe they should have come out first (missed it by half a decade) or come up with a catchy phrase.
- pythonoob ( @pythonoob@programming.dev ) 4•1 year ago
Gif, clearly.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
That’s JPEG File Interchange Format.
- seitanic ( @seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 year ago
Right there in the first paragraph, it says
The base specifications for a JPEG container format are defined in Annex B of the JPEG standard, known as JPEG Interchange Format (JIF).
- SlopppyEngineer ( @SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de ) 10•1 year ago
Gif, the jift that keeps on jivving.
- platysalty ( @platysalty@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
“I’m not brave enough for politics.”
Immediately makes a hot take.
That’s the plan. Always has been.
- Carlos Solís ( @csolisr@communities.azkware.net ) 7•1 year ago
I take the third route and pronounce it Heef, as in Spanish
- 1337 ( @1337admin@1337lemmy.com ) 7•1 year ago
Pronounced it as a soft g in my head the first time I read it, and years later the creator said it was meant to be a soft g, so I feel validated.
When you create an image format, name it whatever you want and if it’s any good and I use it, I’ll call it what you want
- TheEmpireStrikesDak ( @DakRalter@thelemmy.club ) 1•1 year ago
Yoofo :(
- juliebean ( @juliebean@lemm.ee ) 6•1 year ago
oh that’s easy, it’s “dot gif”
- 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( @Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 6•1 year ago
Some say gif, others say gif. The people saying gif are correct.
- MrShankles ( @MrShankles@reddthat.com ) 1•1 year ago
Ya damn giraffe-loving gifter
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
Hard G. It’s “Graphics Interchange Format”, not “Jraphics Interchange Format”.
- cordlesslamp ( @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ) 5•1 year ago
Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?
Now, while pronouncing “G”, close your lips to make the sound “G-if”.
There you have it, how to pronounce “Gif”.
Ps: honestly, That just popped up in my head a moment ago and I’m just trying to troll, wholeheartedly I believe it is hard-G as in Graphics.
- geissi ( @geissi@feddit.de ) English3•1 year ago
Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?
According to wikipedia the phonetic usage includes:
[g] [d͡ʒ] [ʒ] [ŋ] [j] [ɣ~ʝ] [x~χ] [d͡z] [ɟ] [k] [ɠ] [ɢ] /dʒiː/For English pronunciation it lists:
/dʒ/ /ɡ/ /ʒ/ and silent
- Squids ( @Squids@sopuli.xyz ) English3•1 year ago
Does that mean you also pronounce scuba sku•ba instead of skoo•bah? Because that U stands for Underwater not OOnderwater. And what about Jpeg? Shouldn’t it be Jeg because the P in photographic is silent.
- AnarchoYeasty ( @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Or jfeg because photography has an f sound.
It’s soft g gif. Because the original joke was choosy moms choose jif, and choosy web developers choose gif.
- terminhell ( @terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•1 year ago
.jeff
- Dandroid ( @dandroid@dandroid.app ) 7•1 year ago
I have a friend named Geoff who says gif with a hard G. I like to pronounce his name with a hard G after that. Geff.
- akari ( @akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•1 year ago
the correct answer is hard-g soft-g ee ef ef: ggi F.F.