Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP

themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• null@lemmy.nullspace.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Homophonia is a huge issue

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Have coarse wee dew knot wont two bee band buy Maudes fore braking roules.

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    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I hate how fluently I could read that

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Jraphics Interchange Format

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Self-Contained Uoonderwater Breathing Apparatus

    Light Aimplification by Ztimulated Uhmission of Radiation

    Acronyms do not work that way!

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  • dosboy0xff@infosec.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, but for consistency you also have to pronounce JPEG as “jay-feg”.

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    • sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      G on it’s own can do hard or soft sounds. P needs the H to do the F.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I actually do.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s a pronunciation guide in the original documentation

  And it was WRONG

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There is no wrong. English doesn’t have wrong pronunciations. You’re either understood or you aren’t. There’s the original pronunciation, and there’s the new pronunciation. Both are used, so neither is wrong.

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s a pronunciation guide in the original documentation, and that didn’t end the debate.

  Humans are even more horrible that this first glance suggests. Imagine, one day, the debate truly ends and a single pronunciation for GIF is universally established and recognized by everyone. A group of humans will start to intentionally mispronounce it (or misspell it) just for the aggravation it will generate in others or for their own amusement.

  This is where the meme-like behavior of deliberately misspelling the popular phrase (at the time) “all correct” as “oll korrect”. This was later abbreviated as “o.k.” and then eventually “ok”. A phrase we likely use dozens or hundreds of times a day is meme-speak from 1839. source

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks for that link, I’ve long wondered the origin of OK!

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• WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So what you’re saying it’s that just like articles—THEY DIDN’T READ. Then they perpetuated fake news until it was accepted by half the audience.

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    More than half. Less than 25% of people use the original pronunciation of gif, and two people in this thread have repeated the absurd misconceptions that popularized the new pronunciation.

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    • WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, I like peanut butter and that’s how it’s pronounced. I guess I’m part of the quarter gang.

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      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There’s dozens of us! I’m just old enough to remember when the file format was new and people talked about it.

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