only seen a handful of things created with webp, and it was all porn. not seen it used much elsewhere online. doubt anyone will care about it in years time. has made no impact so far.
The creator is wrong. He doesnt get to decide the pronunciation. The pronunciation is based on English rules, and English rules dictate that the G sound is pronounced the way the word it stands for does.
It would be jif if gig stood for Giraffe Investigation Federation or some shit, but it stands for Graphics Interchange Format. A hard G in graphics, ergo a hard G in the acronym too.
>the creator is wrong >the man who invents it doesn't get to name it >d-don't care, still saying GIF h-haha >stay mad lmao frfr
these are the most coherent arguments presented in the entire thread
imagine steve jobs takes the stage and presents the "iPhone", then morons run around in public calling it the "iPhan" and getting mad when people try to correct them. actual comedy
English should just start using a system like furigana to fix this shit.
say whatever you want, if you say gif or jif doesn't matter if the other party immediately understands what you are talking about. if the idea was conveyed, the purpose of language was achieved.
If the creator of something got to decide what everyone ultimately calls it, SCSI would be pronounced "sexy" and crossword puzzles would be called "word cross".
>.yif
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The creator is wrong. He doesnt get to decide the pronunciation. The pronunciation is based on English rules, and English rules dictate that the G sound is pronounced the way the word it stands for does.
It would be jif if gig stood for Giraffe Investigation Federation or some shit, but it stands for Graphics Interchange Format. A hard G in graphics, ergo a hard G in the acronym too.
The G in GR is still a hard G if you isolate it from the R, dumb Black person.
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Yes it literally is.
Stop arguing about this and just look the rules the frick up for god sakes. This did NOT need to be a whole thread.
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/77073/pronunciation-rules-for-acronyms
>the creator is wrong >the man who invents it doesn't get to name it >d-don't care, still saying GIF h-haha >stay mad lmao frfr
these are the most coherent arguments presented in the entire thread
imagine steve jobs takes the stage and presents the "iPhone", then morons run around in public calling it the "iPhan" and getting mad when people try to correct them. actual comedy
George Lucas called lightsabers "lazerswords" and still calls them that to this day. Nobody gives a shit about what the creator thinks, especially when they're being moronic.
lucas wanted them to be called laser swords but the other writers liked lightsaber better, which is why lightsabers are mentioned by name dozens of times throughout the movies and "laser sword" only once or twice, which is why the public refers to them as the former
doesn't exactly hold water here - people see a capital G and assume hard G, as most words and names beginning with G are hard G sounds. this incorrect pronunciation was never popularized/publicized like lightsaber was
It stands for Graphical Image Format so people assume it starts with the G in Graphical and nobody cares that some autist insists on a different pronunciation for his own arbitrary reasons
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I also don't care that it actually stands for Graphics Interchange Format suck my dick
False equivalent.
Your argument would be Steve Jobs inventing the (written) "iPhone" and then standing on the stage calling it the "iPhan".
Then people start to discuss that "iPhone" should be pronounced "iPhone" because that's what English pronunciation for the written word dictates and smoothbrain iShills argue that if Steve Jobs calls it "iPhan", it should generally called "iPhan", since the inventor gets to choose it.
But the inventor doesn't chose the way the English language works. Only because you invented something, doesn't mean that you're allowed to bend a language to your liking.
If Steve Jobs wanted an iPhan, he should have called it an "iPhan".
And if the inventor of the gif format wanted it to be called "jif", he shouldn't have chosen the word "graphics" as the first word of his acronym.
say whatever you want, if you say gif or jif doesn't matter if the other party immediately understands what you are talking about. if the idea was conveyed, the purpose of language was achieved.
Anybody trying to argue "graphics" doesn't have a single answer when you bring up gin, giraffe, scuba, laser, or fricking jpeg for direct relevance. You've made the same stupid arguments before, been told the same things in response, and you'll ignore that and repeat it again tomorrow like an absolute fricking moronic child. Just admit you say it with a hard g because that's how you heard it first and you're not going to change now instead of coming up with completely baseless justifications. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that. Stop trying to justify it. You do it because you feel like it, not because it's correct.
G can be pronounced both as g and j, no one actually cares about the original acronym for the pronunciation of its abbreviation when not making disingenuous retroactive arguments, and its proponents are so aggressive and personal about it that it just seems prudent not to associate yourself with them. The wikipedia article is also full of this same brand of aggression, too.
It's the same kind of stupid trivial bullshit argument as pineapple pizza. It was never actually an argument until fricking twitter decided to make it trend for ten years.
You'll be saying "Animated WebP" soon.
yes, animated webbep
weppee*
>Animated WebP
How does that differ from webm?
how do gifs differ from webms?
only seen a handful of things created with webp, and it was all porn. not seen it used much elsewhere online. doubt anyone will care about it in years time. has made no impact so far.
gif has terrible compression.
I call them Black folk. Simple as.
i use the spanish hard J
>.yif
The creator is wrong. He doesnt get to decide the pronunciation. The pronunciation is based on English rules, and English rules dictate that the G sound is pronounced the way the word it stands for does.
It would be jif if gig stood for Giraffe Investigation Federation or some shit, but it stands for Graphics Interchange Format. A hard G in graphics, ergo a hard G in the acronym too.
Grif, got it moron.
The G in GR is still a hard G if you isolate it from the R, dumb Black person.
Yes it literally is.
>Yes it literally is.
Source?
>ignoring context
I can already tell a israelite made this
Context has nothing to do with English being so fricked that you can't actually phonetically read it.
This completely disregards English phonotactics.
You can't just isolate 1/3 of a syllable and claim it exists in a pronunciation vacuum.
Well I guess YOU can, but only because you're a moron.
>prounced
uwotm8?
Welcome to the English language, sir.
uh oh ESL moment!
>jif
If you have to specify that, then you already lost
>o in woman
fake and gay
100% this. G in Graphics. Creator is a moron.
You're a beta male, sonic.
That was the least funny thing ive seen in a while. I hope you feel terrible for posting reddit content.
Well I hope YOU feel bad for being fricking wrong.
Embarrassing.
It would be more like .hif you espanol illiterate moron.
Yeah I didnt ask and I dont care.
>why yes i pronounce JPEG jay-gay how do you know?
How do you pronounce gilf then?
what the creator thinks is less than irrelevant
If the creator of something got to decide what everyone ultimately calls it, SCSI would be pronounced "sexy" and crossword puzzles would be called "word cross".
For me, it's Jeef
>English rules dictate that the G sound is pronounced the way the word it stands for does.
That's not a rule.
Stop arguing about this and just look the rules the frick up for god sakes. This did NOT need to be a whole thread.
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/77073/pronunciation-rules-for-acronyms
>jiraffical image format
What a fricking tard
Don't care, didn't read.
If it were pronounced JIF, it would be called JIF.
>jif
>jrapichs interchange format
I pronounce it with the hard R
>what is death of the author
What a homosexual
>the creator is wrong
>the man who invents it doesn't get to name it
>d-don't care, still saying GIF h-haha
>stay mad lmao frfr
these are the most coherent arguments presented in the entire thread
imagine steve jobs takes the stage and presents the "iPhone", then morons run around in public calling it the "iPhan" and getting mad when people try to correct them. actual comedy
George Lucas called lightsabers "lazerswords" and still calls them that to this day. Nobody gives a shit about what the creator thinks, especially when they're being moronic.
lucas wanted them to be called laser swords but the other writers liked lightsaber better, which is why lightsabers are mentioned by name dozens of times throughout the movies and "laser sword" only once or twice, which is why the public refers to them as the former
doesn't exactly hold water here - people see a capital G and assume hard G, as most words and names beginning with G are hard G sounds. this incorrect pronunciation was never popularized/publicized like lightsaber was
It stands for Graphical Image Format so people assume it starts with the G in Graphical and nobody cares that some autist insists on a different pronunciation for his own arbitrary reasons
I also don't care that it actually stands for Graphics Interchange Format suck my dick
False equivalent.
Your argument would be Steve Jobs inventing the (written) "iPhone" and then standing on the stage calling it the "iPhan".
Then people start to discuss that "iPhone" should be pronounced "iPhone" because that's what English pronunciation for the written word dictates and smoothbrain iShills argue that if Steve Jobs calls it "iPhan", it should generally called "iPhan", since the inventor gets to choose it.
But the inventor doesn't chose the way the English language works. Only because you invented something, doesn't mean that you're allowed to bend a language to your liking.
If Steve Jobs wanted an iPhan, he should have called it an "iPhan".
And if the inventor of the gif format wanted it to be called "jif", he shouldn't have chosen the word "graphics" as the first word of his acronym.
Gift
I just say gee eye eff with no fricks given.
Just like Ping and Bump amirite?
English should just start using a system like furigana to fix this shit.
say whatever you want, if you say gif or jif doesn't matter if the other party immediately understands what you are talking about. if the idea was conveyed, the purpose of language was achieved.
>'graphics'
>hard 'g'
>lets just be homosexuals and confuse everyone with a J sound
> not calling it dot griform
should've made the extension .jif if you wanted people saying jif
Just use both interchangeably. Especially in the same sentence. Drives people NUTS.
nope, in $CURRENT_YEAR it's pronounced .mp4
Anybody trying to argue "graphics" doesn't have a single answer when you bring up gin, giraffe, scuba, laser, or fricking jpeg for direct relevance. You've made the same stupid arguments before, been told the same things in response, and you'll ignore that and repeat it again tomorrow like an absolute fricking moronic child. Just admit you say it with a hard g because that's how you heard it first and you're not going to change now instead of coming up with completely baseless justifications. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that. Stop trying to justify it. You do it because you feel like it, not because it's correct.
It's not called a Giraffe Interchange Format
Let's call them .sniff
G can be pronounced both as g and j, no one actually cares about the original acronym for the pronunciation of its abbreviation when not making disingenuous retroactive arguments, and its proponents are so aggressive and personal about it that it just seems prudent not to associate yourself with them. The wikipedia article is also full of this same brand of aggression, too.
It's the same kind of stupid trivial bullshit argument as pineapple pizza. It was never actually an argument until fricking twitter decided to make it trend for ten years.
Ah yes, the Girrafecal Interchange Format.
I mean most gifs look like giraffe feces so it checks out
if it's pronounced jif, why isn't it spelled jif?
j-j-j-jjiiifff
jraphics
>jraphics interchange format
pronounced JIF because american english and education is an embarrassing farce.