Comment on Which is which though?

teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you pronounce origin like the state?

  Do you you also say “nay-say” when reading NASA, lol

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The acronym for NASA uses the same sounds as the words that make the acronym. Same as GIF so I’m not sure what your point is. Mine is that GIF stands for graphics interchange format and graphics starts with a hard g therefore GIF should start with a hard g.

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    • Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      dictionary.cambridge.org/…/aeronautics

      dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/…/agency

      Then

      dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/…/nasa

      They are phonetically different sounds altogether, so your argument is flawed.

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      • shottymcb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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    • Tavarin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      SCUBA, unless you pronounce underwater as oonderwater.

      Also JIF is a separate file format, so GIF should not be pronounced the same.

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use a hard G but this is a bad argument. I’ll just link to this great list of counterexamples:

  lemmy.world/comment/2216080

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• r2vq@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How do you pronounce JPEG?

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jay-peg

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    • r2vq@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. So by the other user’s logic, you shouldn’t be using the hard /p/ sound.

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      • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ah, Jafeg, like Jafar’s less charismatic cousin.

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