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 Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:32 pm Post subject: How to pronounce "GIF" |
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| The Creators of GIF wrote: | | The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), pronounced "JIF", was designed by CompuServe and the official specification released in June of 1987. |
| Wikipedia wrote: | | The creators of the format pronounced GIF with a soft "g", /ˈdʒɪf/, as in "George" |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format
So there, it's pronounced "jiff" just like I always fucking say.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| pretty sure you're thinking of the peanut butter... |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:09 am Post subject: |
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yea...if it were pronounced "jiff" it'd be spelled that way asshole
it's gif dude...
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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What the fuck do the creators of gif know?
The creators of Japan called it Nippon, no one cares.
The creators of American Indians called them some other shit, but just christoff columbus thought he was in India know their Indians.
Clearly, Gif is pronounced GIIIIIrhett'safaggotfffff
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rhett's a huge fag lol i agree
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:25 am Post subject: |
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so it's GIF
and you pronounce it like you pronounce giggle.
hehehehe
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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Check this out:
"I was, a few years ago, priviledged enough to have a very brief run-in with one of the co-creators for the GIF format, Terry Welch -- the W in LZW. My uncle was working for Unisys, and I was there for some reason or another and in the process of showing me around the place we ran into the guy.
We didn't have much of an intercourse, but in the few seconds I had with him I asked him the question about pronouncing 'GIF'. He told me that while he pronounces it with the stressed 'G' ("g-if"), the other two people (the "L" and "Z") use the 'J' convention, ("jif").
Readers are invited to make their own judgement."
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Both pronunciations are given as correct by the Oxford English Dictionary [ cite web | url=http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50292950?query_type=word&queryword=gif&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&result_place=1&search_id=kUF6-h25mk9-6375&hilite=50292950
title=Oxford English Dictionary | publisher=Oxford University Press | accessdate=2007-04-15}] and the American Heritage Dictionary. [cite web | url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/GIF | title=American Heritage Dictionary | publisher=Houghton-Mifflin | accessdate=2007-04-15]
So, since Gif was created by multiple people, there is a bit of varying perspectives on how to pronounce it, additionally, English has absorbed both pronunciation. We don't speak the king's English anymore because people slowly mispronounced things, but now, the mispronunciations are correct. Anyway, its not mispronounced.
BAM
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gg rhett
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Rhett loses.
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| Nilla wrote: | so it's GIF
and you pronounce it like you pronounce giggle.
hehehehe |
In your "hehehehe" I imagined you doing your Nilla laugh. And I loled. Thanks for that. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:24 am Post subject: |
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dude, seriously, just shut up already
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