Oooh, that’s how grammar works in English language. Okay, so me as a developer of some obscure thing from this point forward are instructing everyone to pronounce “home” as “hume”, since that’s how you pronounce “o” in “tomb”. I decided that solely because my software is loosely related to the meaning of the word. K thx bai.
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OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My giant giraffe agrees.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Did you invent the word home? No? So you don’t get to decide how to pronounce it.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Neither did the author of graphic format. GIF is not a word, but initialism, like NSA, FBI, NASA, IBM, etc. And there are specific rules how they are read and pronounced.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 6 months ago
NASA is an acronym, not an initialism. And guess how the last letter of NASA is pronounced versus how the A in the corresponding word is pronounced. Ah vs Uh.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 6 months ago
O.k.
halm@leminal.space 6 months ago
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Haha, good one!
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yes but actually no
irmoz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Was it a gift?
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, from a gyrating genie named George.
AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh yeah? Well lick my gargantuan gorilla gonads.
(I’m actually team jif but can’t help myself)
snowe@programming.dev 6 months ago
I always think all the arguments are ridiculous because it’s essentially saying that someone is pronouncing a product (not a word) that they created incorrectly. This product even has a catchphrase for it. There’s literally nothing you can say to contradict that. It’s a product with a catchphrase that describes how to pronounce it. If you pronounce it differently then you do you, but you are wrong.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 6 months ago
It’s also pretty funny when it’s about actual product you will get corrected to the intended pronunciation, or at least, allowed because people acknowledge there might be multiple way of reading a word based on where you from. Like potato and tomato.
AnarchistsForDemocracy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Life is all about jif and dake.
Jarix@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good god Gordon go gag a gator
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
technically starts with the D sound
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Now you’re just getting crazy
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I may sound haughty and knowledgable when I say JiF then, but between just you and me, I didn’t know a damn thing about this and just decided to say it this way in my brain for reasons that remain unclear.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Me too. I just always said it with a soft G because my brain told me that’s how it was pronounced.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Strange that I never got a notification for this. Hm.
I’ve always pronounced it that way for whatever reason, and when I learned that was the correct way I was very high and mighty, lol