cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/46785145
YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation
Submitted 1 month ago by Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ambiance6195@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
How dare you come here with this blasphemy.
hash@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
FUCK ALL Y’ALL ‘JIF’ MOTHERFUCKERS
Kinokoloko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
How do you pronounce laser
huquad@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Hard R
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
jaser
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 month ago
“laser”
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
There are several arguments for why it should be pronounced a given way and OP didn’t say any of them.
I see you just picked your favorite to argue against.
TeddE@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’ll bend over in a jiffy.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 month ago
Looks like Wikipedia decided to let the users battle it out since they have both listed. Both the right and the wrong way.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
wow, they used to use the hard F on Family guy?
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 month ago
Pronounced ‘chief.’
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Piss off both sides and just spell it. G.I.F.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The notorious G I F
scintilla@crust.piefed.social 1 month ago
I feel like that’s a win for hard G honestly.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
But the letter “G” has a soft “g” in its pronunciation. Otherwise, you’re talking about clarified butter.
workerONE@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The letter g is pronounced Jee
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just say the full name outright: “Graphically Integrated Frames”
tpihkal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why do they list an incorrect pronunciation?
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
To stop the edit wars.
Also the creator of the format attempted to troll people by saying it’s officially pronounced “jiff”, and it’s taken as truth by the gullible and the people who believe that if you create something, you should be able to control what people call it (even if it defies logic).
Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I agree that the manner this was presented at the 2013 Webbys, which kickstarted the debate, was jokingly, but the specifications have always recommended “jiff” since the format’s inception, though also a bit jokingly:
Wilhite and the team who developed the file format included in the technical specifications that the acronym was to be pronounced with a soft g. In the specifications, the team wrote that “choosy programmers choose … ‘jif’”, in homage to the peanut butter company Jif’s advertising slogan of “choosy moms choose Jif”.[3]
tpihkal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
*“Jeff”
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 1 month ago
GIF
“Gee Eye Eff”
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I got real self righteous there for a second, but i see they included the wrong pronunciation as well
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are they always wrong though?
Babalugats@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Giraffe-ic Interchange Format.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Weird that they don’t have the pronunciation listed for giraffe the same way
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i’ve forgotten most of my IPA so this is really helpful
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Enough IPA and I tend to forget things as well.
rdri@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I first read that as a hitman image format.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
[deleted]monogram@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Jay-Phegg
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
yeah well jayphegg yourself buddy
NovaSel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Me on mobile: Huh, interesting…
MadnessForTsar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The only thing I know about this is that it’s unnecessary to start another “internet war” over how someone pronounced terms like this one, since both pronunciation are recognizable (even my friends often spelled in with different results thanks to their accents and our local language too)
everett@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Also, generally anything with a dotted underline.
calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Anything with a dotted underline is canonically meant to be hovered to show a tooltip.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If that’s not divisive in today’s political climate, I don’t know what is.
~/s~
sudoku@programming.dev 1 month ago
g as in gif
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wrong, it’s pronounced “gif”
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
g as in genuine ginormous gendered giraffes gesticulating gingerly
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
‘G’ as in “Gary my guy, it’s great you have the guts to be wrong again!”
colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
g as in gnome
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 month ago
I wish it was gnuf