Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

• 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.

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  • jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      choosing to pronounce “gif” with a hard “g” is an arbitrary renunciation of the standards of the language.

      Right. That’s why people naturally started pronouncing it with a hard ‘g’ to begin with…

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What rule? I just go by what I read in the 90s about what the creators thought.

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  • jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But gif is not an acronym its an abbreviation.

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      • __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Acronyms are abbreviations.

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