cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/46785145
Me on mobile: Huh, interesting…
YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation
Submitted 6 months ago by Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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NovaSel@lemmy.world 5 months ago
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 6 months ago
GIF
“Gee Eye Eff”
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I got real self righteous there for a second, but i see they included the wrong pronunciation as well
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
i’ve forgotten most of my IPA so this is really helpful
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Enough IPA and I tend to forget things as well.
MadnessForTsar@lemmy.world 6 months 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)
hash@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
FUCK ALL Y’ALL ‘JIF’ MOTHERFUCKERS
TeddE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They’ll bend over in a jiffy.
Kinokoloko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
How do you pronounce laser
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 months 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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
jaser
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 6 months ago
“laser”
huquad@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Hard R
rdri@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I first read that as a hitman image format.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ambiance6195@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
How dare you come here with this blasphemy.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Piss off both sides and just spell it. G.I.F.
Grimy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just say the full name outright: “Graphically Integrated Frames”
scintilla@crust.piefed.social 6 months ago
I feel like that’s a win for hard G honestly.
workerONE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The letter g is pronounced Jee
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
But the letter “G” has a soft “g” in its pronunciation. Otherwise, you’re talking about clarified butter.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The notorious G I F
Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 months 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 6 months ago
wow, they used to use the hard F on Family guy?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If that’s not divisive in today’s political climate, I don’t know what is.
~/s~
everett@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Also, generally anything with a dotted underline.
njm1314@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Are they always wrong though?
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
[deleted]monogram@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Jay-Phegg
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
yeah well jayphegg yourself buddy
tpihkal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why do they list an incorrect pronunciation?
otp@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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 5 months 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 6 months ago
*“Jeff”
Babalugats@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Giraffe-ic Interchange Format.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Weird that they don’t have the pronunciation listed for giraffe the same way
sudoku@programming.dev 6 months ago
g as in gif
colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
g as in gnome
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 6 months ago
I wish it was gnuf
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
g as in genuine ginormous gendered giraffes gesticulating gingerly
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 months ago
‘G’ as in “Gary my guy, it’s great you have the guts to be wrong again!”
ceenote@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wrong, it’s pronounced “gif”
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 6 months ago
Pronounced ‘chief.’
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
More like Gee-f
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 months ago
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Okay, so like a GIF Wrangler
calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Anything with a dotted underline is canonically meant to be hovered to show a tooltip.