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[–] 71 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    g as in genuine ginormous gendered giraffes gesticulating gingerly

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    'G' as in "Gary my guy, it's great you have the guts to be wrong again!"

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Looks like Wikipedia decided to let the users battle it out since they have both listed. Both the right and the wrong way.

    My opinion, I always use a hard F.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Piss off both sides and just spell it. G.I.F.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I feel like that's a win for hard G honestly.

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    I first read that as a hitman image format.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i've forgotten most of my IPA so this is really helpful

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    FUCK ALL Y'ALL 'JIF' MOTHERFUCKERS

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    Me on mobile: Huh, interesting...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    This also generally works wherever you see a dotted underline.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The only thing I know about this is that it's unnecessary to start another "internet war" over how someone pronounced terms like this one, since both pronunciation are recognizable (even my friends often spelled in with different results thanks to their accents and our local language too)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Giraffe-ic Interchange Format.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Are they always wrong though?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    yeah well jayphegg yourself buddy

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    well okay i guess i'll send the cookout invitation to OOP then

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    What rule? I just go by what I read in the 90s about what the creators thought.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If that’s not divisive in today’s political climate, I don’t know what is.

    /s

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Anything with a dotted underline is canonically meant to be hovered to show a tooltip.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why do they list an incorrect pronunciation?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To stop the edit wars.

    Also the creator of the format attempted to troll people by saying it's officially pronounced "jiff", and it's taken as truth by the gullible and the people who believe that if you create something, you should be able to control what people call it (even if it defies logic).

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    I agree that the manner this was presented at the 2013 Webbys, which kickstarted the debate, was jokingly, but the specifications have always recommended "jiff" since the format's inception, though also a bit jokingly:

    Wilhite and the team who developed the file format included in the technical specifications that the acronym was to be pronounced with a soft g. In the specifications, the team wrote that "choosy programmers choose ... 'jif'", in homage to the peanut butter company Jif's advertising slogan of "choosy moms choose Jif".[3]

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