Gif's inventor says ignore dictionaries and say 'Jif'

[gamefan5]

Hmm...
He wants us to pronounce it a Jif, eh???
It's an acronym not a word.. But.. XD

NES - Ness
SuperNES - SuperNess
GB - GuhB
DS - Diss
PSX - PissX
Ouya - OUUUYAAAAA! XD
... Lol just thinking of some pronounciations XD

 

[Jamstruth]

Hmm...
He wants us to pronounce it a Jif, eh???
It's an acronym not a word.. But.. XD

NES - Ness
SuperNES - SuperNess
GB - GuhB
DS - Diss
PSX - PissX
Ouya - OUUUYAAAAA! XD
... Lol just thinking of some pronounciations XD

Only two of those are acronyms: NES and SNES. The rest (bar Ouya which isn't an acronym to my knowledge) are initialisms. One of the things that makes an acronym an acronym is that it is pronounceable.


As for this. "I'm suprised the debate still goes on" so I'm going to prolong it for as long as possible. Who cares in all honesty? Some say "jif" some say "gif" I prefer "gif" because the full name is "Graphics Interchange Format" which starts with a hard G so it just goes to reason.

 

[mechadylan]

Hmm...
He wants us to pronounce it a Jif, eh???
It's an acronym not a word.. But.. XD

NES - Ness
SuperNES - SuperNess
GB - GuhB
DS - Diss
PSX - PissX
Ouya - OUUUYAAAAA! XD
... Lol just thinking of some pronounciations XD

It's an extension, an abbreviation, and an acronym because it has evolved to that status. Acronyms are words, but abbreviations aren't necessarily. An acronym is an abbreviation, but an abbreviation is not always an acronym. Not all extensions become acronyms and I don't believe that there's any de facto standard that decides which get the acronym status and which don't. Exe, for example, is "ee-ekhs-ee" and is quite possibly more common than a gif.

 

[Another World]

They were always called J-ifs. If you went to school for computers were should have been taught that.

-another world

 

[jacksprat1990]

To be fair, who gives a fuck?

 

[kehkou]

I would love to hear the people here try to pronounce "giant" or "ginger" or "gin". By the logic here all should be pronounced with hard 'G's.

 

[Jamstruth]

I would love to hear the people here try to pronounce "giant" or "ginger" or "gin". By the logic here all should be pronounced with hard 'G's.

English has never been determined by logic nor will it ever be.

Seriously, everyone else looks at our language and is like "Dafuq u doin". No regular verbs. No accents. Few set rules to our language whatsoever.

I still use the pronunciation "gif" because I always have. Don't tell me I'm wrong as this is how I've always heard it and I only heard people pronounced it any differently a year ago, maybe.

If somebody really cares about this then it's their problem. Who honestly cares?

 

[YayMii]

Hmm...
He wants us to pronounce it a Jif, eh???
It's an acronym not a word.. But.. XD

NES - Ness
SuperNES - SuperNess
GB - GuhB
DS - Diss
PSX - PissX
Ouya - OUUUYAAAAA! XD
... Lol just thinking of some pronounciations XD

And I've been calling my DS a "diss-icks-ull" since its launch day

 

[vincentthegamer]

Jif is peanut butter...DEAL WITH IT

so every time I watch a jif. I watch peanut butter...hmmmmm well ok

 

[ferofax]

If you say it "G.I.F.", like, "G. I. F. images are cool", you're fine by me.

If you say it "gif", or "jif", we're just gonna argue, so let's stick to "G.I.F.".

 

[FAST6191]

I would love to hear the people here try to pronounce "giant" or "ginger" or "gin". By the logic here all should be pronounced with hard 'G's.

ginger is easy enough -- it is already a somewhat derogatory term for people* with ginger hair.

*this is if you count people with ginger hair as people and not some subhuman oddities in which case it is not a derogatory term.

Jif is peanut butter...DEAL WITH IT

so every time I watch a jif. I watch peanut butter...hmmmmm well ok

Because words can never have two meanings?

 

[vincentthegamer]

If you say it "G.I.F.", like, "G. I. F. images are cool", you're fine by me.

If you say it "gif", or "jif", we're just gonna argue, so let's stick to "G.I.F.".

I SAY gif.

ginger is easy enough -- it is already a somewhat derogatory term for people* with ginger hair.

*this is if you count people with ginger hair as people and not some subhuman oddities in which case it is not a derogatory term.



Because words can never have two meanings?

well gif is a better sounding word for a moving picture than jif

 

[ShadowSoldier]

I would love to hear the people here try to pronounce "giant" or "ginger" or "gin". By the logic here all should be pronounced with hard 'G's.

No. Because they don't stand for anything or are abbreviations.

GIF is an Abbreviation for "Graphics..." which has the hard G. Going by this man's logic (which he is wrong) It's not pronounced Graphics with a hard G, but rather with a soft G so you get "Jraphics".

Just "JPEG" you don't say "Jay-Page" you say "Jay-Peg" because the G is a hard G.

 

[jacksprat1990]

GIF creator is right. Facts are facts. You have no choice but make that G a soft one. He says so.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Dear sir,

We don't care how you think it should be pronounced. I pronounce it with the hard G (i.e. logically) and that is therefore the correct form.

 

[GamerzHell9137]

Like veho said, Gift without the "t" I always pronounced like that and always will.
Jif sounds weird and I don't like it.

 

[disbala]

I'll be back...

...in a gif.

 

[FAST6191]

No. Because they don't stand for anything or are abbreviations.

GIF is an Abbreviation for "Graphics..." which has the hard G. Going by this man's logic (which he is wrong) It's not pronounced Graphics with a hard G, but rather with a soft G so you get "Jraphics".

To use the American reading of MRSA am I now supposed to pronounce it Methicillin errristant Staphylococcus aureus?

 

[ShadowSoldier]

To use the American reading of MRSA am I now supposed to pronounce it Methicillin errristant Staphylococcus aureus?

Uh.... sure?

(no seriously wtf did you just call me?)

 

[kehkou]

Either 'GIF' or 'JIF' is correct, neither is incorrect. Its a matter of personal preference. fire extinguished.