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 3 days ago by Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ambiance6195@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
How dare you come here with this blasphemy.
hash@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
FUCK ALL Y’ALL ‘JIF’ MOTHERFUCKERS
Kinokoloko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
How do you pronounce laser
huquad@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Hard R
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
jaser
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 days ago
“laser”
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 days 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 3 days ago
They’ll bend over in a jiffy.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 days 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 3 days ago
wow, they used to use the hard F on Family guy?
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 days ago
Pronounced ‘chief.’
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Piss off both sides and just spell it. G.I.F.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
The notorious G I F
scintilla@crust.piefed.social 3 days ago
I feel like that’s a win for hard G honestly.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
But the letter “G” has a soft “g” in its pronunciation. Otherwise, you’re talking about clarified butter.
workerONE@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The letter g is pronounced Jee
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just say the full name outright: “Graphically Integrated Frames”
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 3 days ago
GIF
“Gee Eye Eff”
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I got real self righteous there for a second, but i see they included the wrong pronunciation as well
tpihkal@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Why do they list an incorrect pronunciation?
otp@sh.itjust.works 3 days 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 2 days 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 3 days ago
*“Jeff”
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Are they always wrong though?
Babalugats@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Giraffe-ic Interchange Format.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Weird that they don’t have the pronunciation listed for giraffe the same way
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
i’ve forgotten most of my IPA so this is really helpful
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Enough IPA and I tend to forget things as well.
calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Anything with a dotted underline is canonically meant to be hovered to show a tooltip.
NovaSel@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Me on mobile: Huh, interesting…
rdri@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I first read that as a hitman image format.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
[deleted]monogram@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Jay-Phegg
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
yeah well jayphegg yourself buddy
MadnessForTsar@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days ago
Also, generally anything with a dotted underline.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If that’s not divisive in today’s political climate, I don’t know what is.
~/s~
sudoku@programming.dev 3 days ago
g as in gif
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Wrong, it’s pronounced “gif”
colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
g as in gnome
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
g as in genuine ginormous gendered giraffes gesticulating gingerly
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 day ago
‘G’ as in “Gary my guy, it’s great you have the guts to be wrong again!”
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 days ago
I wish it was gnuf