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It's canon now. And so is a certain image format.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FlyingSquid@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    canon

    It’s pronounced sanon btw

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    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      From the original çanon of course

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s pronounced source.

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    • MeatPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You mean the Sanon Dork Lard?

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  • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jandalf, yes I was once called that. Jandalf the Jray.

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    • Ryan213@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Now I am Jandalf the Hwhite.

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      • pendulum_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        After smearing myself with chool hwip

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

    My giant giraffe agrees.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Me too. I just always said it with a soft G because my brain told me that’s how it was pronounced.

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      • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Did you invent the word home? No? So you don’t get to decide how to pronounce it.

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      • halm@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wait till you hear about ghoti…

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    • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes but actually no

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    • irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Was it a gift?

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      • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, from a gyrating genie named George.

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    • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh yeah? Well lick my gargantuan gorilla gonads.

      (I’m actually team jif but can’t help myself)

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    • snowe@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • AnarchistsForDemocracy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Life is all about jif and dake.

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good god Gordon go gag a gator

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    • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      technically starts with the D sound

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      • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Now you’re just getting crazy

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  • Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One thing I learned recently is that if GIF shall be pronounced “GIF” like the G in Graphical, JPEG shall be pronounced “JFEG” like the P in Photography

    Just droppin that in

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do I look like I know what a jfeg is?

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      • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I just want a picture of a gosh dang JFEGdog

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    • FarmTaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If it was JPhEG sure.

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    • Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      J’feg

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    • uzay@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is it pronounced jilf then as well?

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    • CabbageColonialist@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My nameias jgef

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Would be the worst retroactive devaluation of a body of literary work since JK Rowling showed the world how she really is.

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Orson Scott Card’s gotta rank up there, too.

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        True

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    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I really don’t think JK Rowling revealed who she really was. I think she demonstrated what too much money does to someone.

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nah, you become overconfident, callous and indifferent to the suffering of others from extreme wealth.

        Bigotry and pretending to be the victim of those you victimize is income-agnostic.

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The creator of the GIF format says it’s pronounced like Jiff, like the peanut butter.

    He’s wrong, even though he created the format.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I went looking for it, and apparently you’re right. He said “Jif”. He’s either trolling or an idiot. People don’t see it that way, especially seeing as it’s the hard “G” from “Graphical” in the acronym. So he’s applying a pronunciation rule of soft G when followed with “i” when used in a word to an acronym - and acronyms aren’t words (noted: they can become treated as such).

      GIF is not a word. So soft “g” when followed by “i” does not apply.

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      • lazerCovenant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Acronyms are words. They’re words formed out of the initial letters of a phrase or name.

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      • Electromechanical_Supergiant@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There is no such thing as a “hard g” or a “soft g”. There is a g sound, and there is a j sound.

        Yes, I will die on this hill.

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      • Rhaedas@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The funny thing is that even though there are people on both sides dead set they are right, if they hear someone say the opposite pronunciation they still understand what the speaker is referring to. So there's absolutely no context lost, it's just preference, and I have a feeling given the age of the name GIF those preferences are very regional, as the internet had not become a national/international thing yet.

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      • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s almost like there is no rule when pronouncing acronyms and people choose to pronounce them however sounds best to them. How do you pronounce the U in SCUBA? How do you pronounce the two As in NASA? The A in BASE jumping? The O in POG juice? The O in SONAR? The I in SIM card? The A in LASER? None of those are pronounced like the composite letters, so why is GIF so rigid?

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    • spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s dumb, It’s “Graphics Interchange Format.”

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      • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How do you pronounce the U in SCUBA? How do you pronounce the two As in NASA? The A in BASE jumping? The O in POG juice? The O in SONAR? The I in SIM card? The A in LASER?

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can tell that’s fine art because it says it is.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Picasso did the same thing.

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      • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Jicasso?

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  • BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I read that as “Yan-dolf”.

    I am not even making this up.

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    • jdf038@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      OK you fancy Dutch dude. What’re ya gonna do now? Brag about bicycles and socialized medicine?!!! (He says, jealous af)

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      • SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You mean yealous

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s clearly laurel-dolf

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      • BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nah, the "a"s are silent.

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  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Anyone who uses the argument that Graphical is pronounced with a hard G sound needs to think about how they pronounce other acronyms, like SCUBA, NASA, LASER, SONAR, POG, SIM… the list goes on.

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do say N(ay)SA to annoy people.

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    • halm@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s flattering that you think anybody knows what all of those acronyms actually stand for. I’m semi-certain of NASA, the rest could just be made up for all I know (as a non-native English speaker).

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      • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Kinda hard to forget SCUBA. Self contained underwater breathing apparatus

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  • WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And Elrond is Hispanic elf

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  • Hasuris@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yandalf

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    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yandalf the Yeeted

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    • force@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The great Anglo-Saxon wizard, Ġandalf

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Sauron’s eye was supposed to be a gigantic vagina”

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    • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sauron’s whispering eye.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sauron’s vag

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  • timelighter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    comes back

    Bilbo is gay!

    dies

    comes back

    Nazgul are just men in dresses!

    not canceled cause that’s true

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  • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Without the R???

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  • F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All letters before A are silent.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Guess we need to remake the trilogy.

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  • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yandalf the Yrey

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  • TheMarkus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The genius Tolkien, ever generous, gestured for a round of gin martinis from his giant gentle giraffe. Over gentle murmurs from the crowd, I caught the gist of his speech: genuinely it’s pronounced Jandalf.

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  • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    to be published in a limited gold embossed leather bound volume with 500 pages of commentary, March 2024

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  • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ohh i see it’s a geeraffe, a long necked animal.

    And power ranger called down a guyan robot to fight guyan monster enemy.

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  • d20bard@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gets back up, “also, his name is Jolam.” Lies back down.

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  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you pronounce jpeg as “jayfeg”?

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  • Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    pronounces a proper noun differently than its creator then insisting he’s the one who’s wrong

    Smh. I’d like to tell French people the way they pronounce their words is wrong too, wish me luck.

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  • lorez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fuck him.

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  • dudinax@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Op doesn’t know Frodo’s real name is Froda. Tolkien changed it for modern ears.

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  • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrk8sqZfsgI

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