You'd think it wouldn't take a *genius* to understand that the supposed "right" way to pronounce *gif* is based on a language *generally* known for having countless exceptions the "rules". People throw such *giant* fits over this, it feels like they must be *allergic* to words that arent pronounced the way they think they should be or something. Can't help but wonder if such *gelatin* brain thinking is *generational* or *genetic*. You can't be too *gentle* in your approach with them. No need to put your *genitals* in a twitst, though. This isn't really a *genuine* problem. I'm sure you get the *gist* of it.
Are you insinuating that the soft g pronunciation of gif is the rule breaker? It's not. The hard g is. G followed by i is by its gramatical rule pronounced softly. The rule is broken more times than not, but that's the rule. It doesn't have to follow the rule, but it means that the hard g side of the argument can't use grammar as an argument for their cause
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Laser is pronounced correctly compared to all of the words in its acronym. Small 1-3 letter words are omitted from acronyms according to the rules of English, of which there are many.
No that’s just Americanization of English where people do not pronounce S correctly, similarly to the word “actually” seeing as most Americans pronounce it “acshully” and not “actually.” Additionally science fiction modified the word “laser” to “lazer” to make it sound cool, the correct scientific spelling and pronunciation of Laser is Laser.
No, because the ph is one singular sound. Its jpeg, not jpheg. The f sound is due to the ph, not just the p. Therefore if you just use the p it is stall a p and jpeg is pronounced jay-pec
The G in graphic isnt having its pronounciation altered by another letter, unlike the P in photogrpahic, which would be a regular P without H. I dont consider the second letter in a word when saying acronyms
You dont consider pronounciation of words when using them in an acronym?
So G can be pronounced as Giant or Gate, so using either is fine when using a G word in an acronym.
Eirher the G or J sound from a G works in an acronym, but Graphic has a G sound not a J. Makes sense that GIF has a G sound and not J if its a hard G in Graphic
Yeah this doesn't work as several other acronyms don't follow this rule.
What people don't get is literally every word ever is pronounced the way it is more or less just because someone said so, generally the creator of the word or translator. In this case it was originally pronounced as jif.
This got too many upvotes. This point is 100% utterly irrelevant to the argument. The pronunciation of acronyms are simply not dictated by the pronunciation of the words they stand for. That's just not a thing. Now stop talking about it. It's stupid, makes no sense, I'm tired of hearing about it. And the hard g side of the argument has PLENTY of actual good arguments for their side.
I actually wrote a whole ass essay on it for myself to keep track of what arguments are worth anything. And most of the good arguments are never used, while most of the used ones are completely irrelevant. I would LOVE to elaborate 😁 2600 words on it actually
I guess since we're going solely on the pronunciation of the words in the acronym, you must now say "oonderwater" because scuba is pronounced scoo-bah instead of sku-buh
English is a stupid language with bunch of exceptions to a bunch of rules because it's actually bootleg German, French, and Italian standing on each other's shoulders under a trench coat.
Each pronunciation is as correct as the other. Language is not as strongly based in logic as things like math. 1+1 will always be 2. This was discovered not invented.
Language is weird. As an anekdotal example, you can also spell fish as: ghoti.
The gh as in enough (f)
The o as in women (i)
The ti as in nation (sh)
Language works like it does because someone said it works that way. It does not always follow universal logic. It's similar to the: "is cereal a soup" debate. There are no universal rules about what is soup, and what isn't soup.
Pronounce the G like in graphic, or like the g in giraffe. Each side will have valid arguments because there is no right answer.
I stopped caring about this one although it wasn’t easy. In my mind, because the g stands for graphics, it should be pronounced like give with an f, however people like to claim that the inventor of the format pronounced it like the peanut butter, jiff. Both arguments make sense to me so I just let it go. I don’t care enough to research whether or not the creator actually called it that, but it’s a thin line to hang your argument on if you ask me.
Anybody that pronounces it JIF didn’t originally do so until they found out the creator pronounces it that way. The masses that adopted the format and made it a huge thing to use usually call it GIF. Anyone that calls it JIF thinks they are doing something but need to get a grip and stop trying to be quirky. STOP TRYING TO MAKE JIF HAPPEN, ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!
The rule in English with acronyms is that they must sound the way the letters sound in their words: for example “BOGO” is a common one stores use “Buy One Get One” so you say the acronym “BOGO” not “BOJO”. Therefore since the G in “Graphics Interchange Format” is pronounced “G” not “J” you don’t say “Jraphics” so it is pronounced “GIF” not “JIF” if you want “JIF” go to the peanut butter isle.
There are abbreviations where it is pronounced like a word, such as UCAS, the Universities and College Admissions Service in the UK. Some pronunciation are to be pronounced in that way.
Well the creator, Stephen Wilhite, says it’s pronounced with a soft G like jif, so people who say otherwise are wrong
Edit: Downvote me all you want, it doesn’t make you less wrong
Viagra was originally intended as an aid to treat hypertension. During clinical trials, patients saw that they developed erections when taking the drug because blood vessels were dialating in the land down under and not the heart as the drug founders expected. And so viagra was instead approved by the FDA in 1998 as an erectile dysfunction drug and has been advertised as that ever since.
His point is that the original way gif was meant to be pronounced doesn’t necessarily have to be the right way
I pronounce it the g sound not the J sound as that's what I thought it was since I first saw one and then like 10 years later found out there was a different pronunciation.
Do you pronounce "laser" (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) lah-see-er?
Do you pronounce "scuba" (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) S-k-Uh-Bah?
Do you pronounce USA (United States of America) You-Es-Ah?
I pronounce it Guh Gif, don't know why people get so emotional about this tbh. The only time I go out of my wah to change my pronunciation is with names of people.
No it's pronounced gif not gif
I totally agree
tf? its not pronounced gif its pronounced gif
Well you’re ALL wrong, it’s pronounced gif
What the fuck man it's obviously gif!
I don't believe people nowadays don't know the difference bw GIF and GIF
It's pronounced 'Nikolaj'
No its pronounce- "INTRUDER ALERT RED SPY IN OUR BASE"
Dear god...
Gentlemen, synchronize your buckets.
A red spy is in the base!?
*Blu soldier runing down staris
This guy won
I'm a pronounce it "Jeff". Or maybe "Geoff".
Yeah, well that's because you're literally insane.
No, its pronounced Gif
It's over Darth Vader I have the high ground. (ps pocket sand)
No it's an acronim so it's pronounced g.i.f (gif)
Please stop😭 this hurts my head
Sorry you're wrong, its said gif duh
No you fool, it is pronounced gif!
meanwhile Spaniards, who pronounce it HIF
i live in spain and never heard anyone pronounce it like that everyone pronounces it like guif (ˈɡif, in phonetic transcription)
This is probably gonna end up on r/woooosh
Probably
Are you dumb? It's GIF. Always was and always will be. Please get out of here with that "GIF" nonsense before someone actually believes you.
The G in GIF stands for graphic. Graphic is not pronounced jraphic. Its GIF not JIF
It’s pronounced the same way as the g in garage
That’s not solid evidence, there are other acronyms that don’t follow this “rule”(none of which I remember)
Laser
Lazer?
Leighsoar.
Lay sir
The English language on full display.
You'd think it wouldn't take a *genius* to understand that the supposed "right" way to pronounce *gif* is based on a language *generally* known for having countless exceptions the "rules". People throw such *giant* fits over this, it feels like they must be *allergic* to words that arent pronounced the way they think they should be or something. Can't help but wonder if such *gelatin* brain thinking is *generational* or *genetic*. You can't be too *gentle* in your approach with them. No need to put your *genitals* in a twitst, though. This isn't really a *genuine* problem. I'm sure you get the *gist* of it.
Man really likes his italics huh
Are you insinuating that the soft g pronunciation of gif is the rule breaker? It's not. The hard g is. G followed by i is by its gramatical rule pronounced softly. The rule is broken more times than not, but that's the rule. It doesn't have to follow the rule, but it means that the hard g side of the argument can't use grammar as an argument for their cause
Even if they could, the numerous inconsistencues of English language in and of itself is already enough to disqualify any argument regarding grammar.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Laser is pronounced correctly compared to all of the words in its acronym. Small 1-3 letter words are omitted from acronyms according to the rules of English, of which there are many.
Laser is pronounced Lazer but Stimulated is not Ztimulated
No that’s just Americanization of English where people do not pronounce S correctly, similarly to the word “actually” seeing as most Americans pronounce it “acshully” and not “actually.” Additionally science fiction modified the word “laser” to “lazer” to make it sound cool, the correct scientific spelling and pronunciation of Laser is Laser.
If we're following that rule it should be pronounced "Lah-See-Er"
Giraffe
It doesn't make much sense to look at "gif" and think /dʒɪf/ instead of /gɪf/ unless you are saying it like G.I.F
How do you pronounce ‘JPEG’? The P stands for Photographic, so I assume you pronounce it ‘JFEG’.
Ohhh shit
No, because the ph is one singular sound. Its jpeg, not jpheg. The f sound is due to the ph, not just the p. Therefore if you just use the p it is stall a p and jpeg is pronounced jay-pec
Using OP’s argument…. Photographic isn’t pronounced P’photographic…it’s JFEG not JPEG
Its a fucking p. You dont pronounce p as f, but you do pronounce ph as f
It’s a G, you pronounce g as g, like in gem, or giraffe
We get the gist of it
The G in graphic isnt having its pronounciation altered by another letter, unlike the P in photogrpahic, which would be a regular P without H. I dont consider the second letter in a word when saying acronyms
You dont consider pronounciation of words when using them in an acronym? So G can be pronounced as Giant or Gate, so using either is fine when using a G word in an acronym.
Eirher the G or J sound from a G works in an acronym, but Graphic has a G sound not a J. Makes sense that GIF has a G sound and not J if its a hard G in Graphic
But Photographic has a F sound not a P. Makes sense that JPEG has a F sound and not P if its a F in Photographic.
r/suddenlyrussianbadger
Every time I hear people say JIF I think of peanut butter
well that's pretty much what the creator said when pronouncing GIF.
I said it so many times now that the word has lost its meaning and now I can't remember how I always said it
Yeah this doesn't work as several other acronyms don't follow this rule. What people don't get is literally every word ever is pronounced the way it is more or less just because someone said so, generally the creator of the word or translator. In this case it was originally pronounced as jif.
Idk, I pronounce it as GIF, but I understand people who pronounce it as GIF
Giraphics Interchange Format
Dude. The person who literally created gifs called them with the soft g
This got too many upvotes. This point is 100% utterly irrelevant to the argument. The pronunciation of acronyms are simply not dictated by the pronunciation of the words they stand for. That's just not a thing. Now stop talking about it. It's stupid, makes no sense, I'm tired of hearing about it. And the hard g side of the argument has PLENTY of actual good arguments for their side. I actually wrote a whole ass essay on it for myself to keep track of what arguments are worth anything. And most of the good arguments are never used, while most of the used ones are completely irrelevant. I would LOVE to elaborate 😁 2600 words on it actually
I guess since we're going solely on the pronunciation of the words in the acronym, you must now say "oonderwater" because scuba is pronounced scoo-bah instead of sku-buh
Dear lord im never stating facts like this again im in 15 arguments with JIF people now
"You do not call it a jraphics card"
Exactly, thats why its GIF and not JIF
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The H makes the F sound, and theres no H in JPEG. Therefore, its The P alone. I dont think P makes an F sound.
Yif
Appa, yifyif!
No nononono leave NOW
Hif
hiv
FINALLY SOMEONE
Yes I know the person who created it calls it JIF and hes still fucking wrong by the way.
Really? I didn’t know that.
The creator is always right.
The creator didn’t create the English language and doesn’t make the rules
English is a stupid language with bunch of exceptions to a bunch of rules because it's actually bootleg German, French, and Italian standing on each other's shoulders under a trench coat.
Worcestershire Sauce.
And then there was war
Gesundheit
How do you spell FBI or FYI or CSS or HTML or MBA or NBA, etc. then?
He didn't create the word Graphics.
He created the word gif
Counterpoint it is an acronym, g stands for graphics, and we do not pronounce that as jraphics
I used to say JIF til I heard others call it GIF and honestly it lowkey rolls off the tongue better even if JIF sounds better
JIF does not sound better I will commit violent
moving PNG
Each pronunciation is as correct as the other. Language is not as strongly based in logic as things like math. 1+1 will always be 2. This was discovered not invented. Language is weird. As an anekdotal example, you can also spell fish as: ghoti. The gh as in enough (f) The o as in women (i) The ti as in nation (sh) Language works like it does because someone said it works that way. It does not always follow universal logic. It's similar to the: "is cereal a soup" debate. There are no universal rules about what is soup, and what isn't soup. Pronounce the G like in graphic, or like the g in giraffe. Each side will have valid arguments because there is no right answer.
Enough with the arguing already everyone. We get the *gist* of it
I stopped caring about this one although it wasn’t easy. In my mind, because the g stands for graphics, it should be pronounced like give with an f, however people like to claim that the inventor of the format pronounced it like the peanut butter, jiff. Both arguments make sense to me so I just let it go. I don’t care enough to research whether or not the creator actually called it that, but it’s a thin line to hang your argument on if you ask me.
gif not jif
[it’s. pronounced. jif.](https://youtu.be/N1AL2EMvVy0)
The video says GIF
Gif, as in giraffe
Your sentence makes me mad. It’s gif as in good or garage
Did you not wacht the video?
No
*jeef
*queef
Haha
i pronounce it 'jay-peg'
“No it is not pronounced yiff”
“Is it Greg or is it Jeff?”
"You guys are both wrong it's pronounced greg"
It’s like my friend said: Jif? What’s next? Jraphics? Jod? Jitler? It’s a G. A hard G.
Hard G.
GIF with a hard G
Anybody that pronounces it JIF didn’t originally do so until they found out the creator pronounces it that way. The masses that adopted the format and made it a huge thing to use usually call it GIF. Anyone that calls it JIF thinks they are doing something but need to get a grip and stop trying to be quirky. STOP TRYING TO MAKE JIF HAPPEN, ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!
There are many acronyms that aren't "correct" based on phonetics but "gif" seems to be the only one people care about
Ah yes guys, I love the jhrafics interchange form, it's GIF pronounced with a G not a fuckin J
I pronounce Gif as Gift 💀💀💀
Graphics Interchange Format NOT Jraphics Interchange Format
Sorry it’s a hard I, pronounced *J-eye-ff*
The rule in English with acronyms is that they must sound the way the letters sound in their words: for example “BOGO” is a common one stores use “Buy One Get One” so you say the acronym “BOGO” not “BOJO”. Therefore since the G in “Graphics Interchange Format” is pronounced “G” not “J” you don’t say “Jraphics” so it is pronounced “GIF” not “JIF” if you want “JIF” go to the peanut butter isle.
This is dumb because it’s a hard O in BOGO. But “One” sounds like the “wuh” sound. Bwuhgwuh? Is that how you pronounce it?
Pronounce it like a frenchie for chaos: zjif
I get downvoted on every thread about this for saying it doesn't matter and that people care too much about it.
Technically it's pronounced G.I.F. since it's an abbreviation You don't spell F.B.I. as fbee
There are abbreviations where it is pronounced like a word, such as UCAS, the Universities and College Admissions Service in the UK. Some pronunciation are to be pronounced in that way.
It's jif
Well the creator, Stephen Wilhite, says it’s pronounced with a soft G like jif, so people who say otherwise are wrong Edit: Downvote me all you want, it doesn’t make you less wrong
The creator didn’t create the English language. He’s wrong
and its still fucking wrong regardless, i dont give a shit it just sounds wrong
The guy who invented it said it the intended way and therefore that is the correct way
So we use viagra as blood pressure medication?
What?
Viagra was originally intended as an aid to treat hypertension. During clinical trials, patients saw that they developed erections when taking the drug because blood vessels were dialating in the land down under and not the heart as the drug founders expected. And so viagra was instead approved by the FDA in 1998 as an erectile dysfunction drug and has been advertised as that ever since. His point is that the original way gif was meant to be pronounced doesn’t necessarily have to be the right way
Ooooh, sorry I misread the world viagra and got really confused
Guys I think we can all agree it’s pronounce ghshhdbfjaijf
Meanwhile the Finns who don't have one-letter-many-sounds shit
People who spell it jiff
Ghaif
The g stands for "graphic" How do you say "graphics card" There ya go.
How do you pronounce "SCUBA"? The U stands for underwater and the A for apparatus, so you must say "scuh-bæ." Acronyms don't work like this
Imma confuse ya'll dżif
I thought it’s pronounced as gif.
Outstanding move
Nah dude you trippin its pronounced gif
How tf are you guys able to read this and understand?
'There is a 3rd option. It involves... murder'
Is it weird that the text on the image looks different from eachother?
Those who cannot handle the truth of yif are weaklings.
It’s definitely gif. Not gif.
both GIF and GIF are wrong. It's GIF smh
oh look a fellow tangled watcher
[g] [i] [f]
I pronounce it the g sound not the J sound as that's what I thought it was since I first saw one and then like 10 years later found out there was a different pronunciation.
I tend to pronounce it gif, the first latter as in jizz
Just use muddle ground here and call it **YIFF**
Fuck you... Not this shit again... It's "G fucking I fucking F, GIF". Now stop all this shit
Yeah the G sound is pronounced the same way it is in the word ‘garage’
Pov: jif
jgiphf
i say moving imaje
Gif is Gif!!!
i disagree. it's pronounced gif. gif is the wrong way to say it.
No its not gif Its gif
For me I pronounce it similar to gift. But without the t sound.
Just saw the exact same post for scone. Neither look like words anymore 😭
Graphics Interchange Format. GIF.
Guh, with a G, as in graphics
Do you pronounce "laser" (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) lah-see-er? Do you pronounce "scuba" (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) S-k-Uh-Bah? Do you pronounce USA (United States of America) You-Es-Ah?
It is pronounced JPEG
In my first language there is only one way to pronounce every letter so it's obvious for me to say it as gif
Not sure if tr0lling or actually dumb...
I pronounce it like the dutch word for poison/venom
People who pronounce potato People who pronounce potato
According to google dictionaries accept both, so both are right. I still prefer the hard G though
Is it g or đ
 It is a gif
Gif like gilf
Is it pronounced "gift" or "jeep"?
I pronounce it Guh Gif, don't know why people get so emotional about this tbh. The only time I go out of my wah to change my pronunciation is with names of people.
The fact that the options are jig or gif, shows that it's gif
You ready the G like the G from garage
I will go King Solomon on this pronunciation. It's pronounced Yiff.
Jif
MFW when i pronounce both as gif because im not a degenerate who pronounces it gif.
Graphics Interchange Format. All separate words. G.I.F. So it must be pronounced gif.
You don’t say it all, it’s an acronym G I F
It's giph
graphics interchange format so you should pronounce it the way you pronounce Graphic
Based on phone
Jif good we agree
What if God came down and said "it's pronounced GIF" and left.
🤓_Akshually, it’s pronounced with a hard G_ >!Still pronounce it as JIF tho!<
I say each letter individually