Jandalf, yes I was once called that. Jandalf the Jray.
It's canon now. And so is a certain image format.
Submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Assman@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ryan213@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Now I am Jandalf the Hwhite.
pendulum_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
After smearing myself with chool hwip
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 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 11 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 11 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
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did you invent the word home? No? So you don’t get to decide how to pronounce it.
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes but actually no
irmoz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Was it a gift?
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, from a gyrating genie named George.
AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh yeah? Well lick my gargantuan gorilla gonads.
(I’m actually team jif but can’t help myself)
snowe@programming.dev 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
Life is all about jif and dake.
Jarix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good god Gordon go gag a gator
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
technically starts with the D sound
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Now you’re just getting crazy
Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months 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
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Do I look like I know what a jfeg is?
bitwaba@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I just want a picture of a gosh dang JFEGdog
FarmTaco@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If it was JPhEG sure.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
J’feg
uzay@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Is it pronounced jilf then as well?
CabbageColonialist@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 months ago
My nameias jgef
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Would be the worst retroactive devaluation of a body of literary work since JK Rowling showed the world how she really is.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Orson Scott Card’s gotta rank up there, too.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
True
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I really don’t think JK Rowling revealed who she really was. I think she demonstrated what too much money does to someone.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months 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.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
lazerCovenant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Acronyms are words. They’re words formed out of the initial letters of a phrase or name.
Electromechanical_Supergiant@lemmynsfw.com 11 months 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.
Rhaedas@kbin.social 11 months 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.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 11 months 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?
spudwart@spudwart.com 11 months ago
That’s dumb, It’s “Graphics Interchange Format.”
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 11 months 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?
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can tell that’s fine art because it says it is.
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I read that as “Yan-dolf”.
I am not even making this up.
jdf038@mander.xyz 11 months ago
OK you fancy Dutch dude. What’re ya gonna do now? Brag about bicycles and socialized medicine?!!! (He says, jealous af)
SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
You mean yealous
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s clearly laurel-dolf
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Nah, the "a"s are silent.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I do say N(ay)SA to annoy people.
halm@leminal.space 11 months 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).
bitwaba@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kinda hard to forget SCUBA. Self contained underwater breathing apparatus
WereCat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And Elrond is Hispanic elf
Hasuris@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Yandalf
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yandalf the Yeeted
force@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The great Anglo-Saxon wizard, Ġandalf
Siegfried@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Sauron’s eye was supposed to be a gigantic vagina”
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sauron’s whispering eye.
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sauron’s vag
timelighter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
comes back
Bilbo is gay!
dies
comes back
Nazgul are just men in dresses!
not canceled cause that’s true
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Without the R???
F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All letters before A are silent.
danc4498@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Guess we need to remake the trilogy.
DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yandalf the Yrey
TheMarkus@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
to be published in a limited gold embossed leather bound volume with 500 pages of commentary, March 2024
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 11 months 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.
d20bard@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Gets back up, “also, his name is Jolam.” Lies back down.
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do you pronounce jpeg as “jayfeg”?
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
lorez@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fuck him.
dudinax@programming.dev 11 months ago
Op doesn’t know Frodo’s real name is Froda. Tolkien changed it for modern ears.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 11 months ago
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
It’s pronounced sanon btw
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 11 months ago
From the original çanon of course
jaybone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s pronounced source.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You mean the Sanon Dork Lard?