Well that makes no sense. If your view is that “it’s an acronym or it isn’t” then you pronounce it as individual letters or as a word. But the reality of language is much messier than arbitrary rules people come up with. If people pronounce it as if it’s a word in its own right, that means that’s how it works. Just as with laws of physics, if what we observe contradicts the rule, the rule was wrong.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Well that makes no sense. If your view is that “it’s an acronym or it isn’t” then you pronounce it as individual letters or as a word. But the reality of language is much messier than arbitrary rules people come up with. If people pronounce it as if it’s a word in its own right, that means that’s how it works. Just as with laws of physics, if what we observe contradicts the rule, the rule was wrong.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Right. That’s why people naturally started pronouncing it with a hard ‘g’ to begin with…
can@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What rule? I just go by what I read in the 90s about what the creators thought.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But gif is not an acronym its an abbreviation.