I will face Jod and walk backward into hell before I say “jiff”
Clearly you’re not a choosy mom.
Plebe moms choose ghif.
Yes. ghif
How do you say gin or giraffe? Or literally the letter G?
I pronounce them like Gin and Giraffe
Like the G in “gigantic”.
And “gigolo.”
Fun random fact: the portmanteau word “ginormous” dates to WWII RAF slang.
I did not realise until now that “ginormous” is a portmanteau
and the letter ‘G’
oh that’s easy, it’s “dot gif”
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💀
Because that’s 3 syllables instead of 1. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
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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”.
How do you pronounce JIF, then? (That’s the JPEG Interchange Format.)
Gif, clearly.
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.
That’s JPEG File Interchange Format.
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).
It’s a real shame (for them) they don’t dictate how the English language works
Neither do you?
Yiff
Um, I don’t know how to tell you, but that means a wiiiildly different thing. 🤣
It’s actually pronounced yif
Jraphic interface format really sounds right /s
Let me just get my Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus ready /s
Right, because Gs are never pronounced with a “J” sound, and acronyms are never pronounced differently than their full terms. Sound logic there; well done. Never mind any of these:
NASA- National Aeronautics Space Uhdministration
NATO- North Ayy-tlantic Treaty Organization
LASER- Light Ayy-mplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
SCUBA- Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus
FOMO- Fear ohhf missing ohht
ASAP- Ayys soon ayys possible
POC- People ohhf solor
PIN- Personal id-entification number
BOGO- Buy ohhn get ohhn
POTUS- President ohhf the Uhhnited States
YOLO- You only live ohhnce
AWOL- Ayy-bsent without awfficial leave
ICE- Eyemmigration and Sustoms Enforcement
DARE- Drug Ayybuse Resistance Education
NASA - National Ah-ronautics and Space Uh-dministration
LASER - Light Ay-mplification by Ztimulated Eh-mission of Radiation
ICE - Eye-mmigration and Sustoms -nforcement (E is silent)
DARE - Drug Ay-buse Resistance -ducation (ditto)
National Aeronautics and Space Uhdministration /s
I think it’s because words that end with sa, have that uh sound. Like Medusa, salsa, mesa, mimosa
Right, in other words, acronym pronunciation has nothing to do with how the letters that compose it are pronounced in their respective words.
Light aimplification by ztimulated emission of radiation just has a nice ring to it /s
I believe that’s “uhmission”
You are correct, my apologies
I was devastated to learn the creators intended it to be pronounced “jif” like the peanut butter brand
Yeah, because it’s a jraphical interface format.
So do you say j-feg? Because the p stands for photographic
One of the common nonsensical arguments heard. What’s the next one?
Giraffical
One of the few times I don’t care what the creator says, he was wrong.
And yet your mind knows it’s not possible for him to be wrong since he named it.
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
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”.
You mean steal a catchy phrase lol.
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.
I take the third route and pronounce it Heef, as in Spanish
 There’s no politics involved at all! One is right and one is wrong. It’s easy :)
We all know it’s pronounced “gif”.
Yeah with the g like in garage.
Or the g in gigantic.
I hate this language…
Exactly!
Gif, the jift that keeps on jivving.
whichever way pisses off the most people
watch me pronounce it /χäɪf/ (“hyfe”)
Isn’t that one of Elon Muskrat’s kids?
When I want to be annoying (and when the people I’m talking to are aware of furries), I pronounce it ‘yiff’
Some say gif, others say gif. The people saying gif are correct.
Ya damn giraffe-loving gifter
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
Yoofo :(
“I’m not brave enough for politics.”
Immediately makes a hot take.
That’s the plan. Always has been.
