JIF

They're the same thing...

i pronounce it N-C-Double A.

You may want to go over that second sentence again. Phonetically, means that is is spelled the way it sounds. The letter g, particularly at the beginning of a word, is most often pronounced as it is in green.

actually it stands for general, as in general internet file...



sorry...

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im sorry i stand corrected...

YFW, I assume.

yeah pretty much. but i am no coward. i take my thumbs like a man. be they red or green...

Indeed. Well, prepare your anus--the flood of red thumbs doesn't look like it's going to stop, since people seem really set on thumbing you down for your mistake... Thumbs aren't exactly worth anything tangible, though.

Then again, I used to give a **** about getting a lot of thumbs a lot more back when I was in the top 10 of comment rankings. I've been spending less time on FJ recently, so I don't really go to too much effort to get thumbs anymore.

indeed

The G stands for graphics, it is only logical to call it gif, not jif

As much has he says its jif, the masses have spoken and there aint **** he can do about it. Language evolves all the time.

With that logic orange would be spelled oranje, correct?

butthurt anon detected

i used to say it as jif until people started laughing and telling me it was gif...now who's the smart one

Really? I had the exact opposite happen to me haha

It's yiffing.

not jiffing

that's some kind of weird.. peanut butter ****** , I assume.

and you I assume you have a weird my little pony ******

Who doesn't these days?

Well if you use the J like in Bjork jiffing becomes yiffing.

so it's jif

how did you find this

I don't pronounce it "Ahtlantic" either

What about Giraffe?
Or ****** ?

Are they pronounced "guh-raff" and "vuh-guy-na" now?

I'm sorry, but I really don't find that argument valid. That's like saying that because gif is now pronounced "jif", every g makes a j sound. "The joat joes to the joofy jirl". How one word is pronounced doesn't affect every other word that uses the same letters.

I was using sarcasm to make that point.
The main argument people use is because Graphics has the hard "guh" sound.
I was poking fun at those people by being sarcastic.

Sure, but it's an Acronym.
You're on the right track about one thing, though; Certain letters in certain words can have a different sound.

However, you're over-looking the fact that the creator of the .gif file format (and of the acronym) declared that the correct pronunciation be "Jiff" over "Gyph".

Take it like this:
My friend's last name is Puszklewicz.
It isn't pronounced how it's spelled out, I can tell you that right now.

If you're the creator of a name/ word, then you're entitled to state what the correct pronunciation is.

For instance, my name is Coleman, yet people still ******* call me "Cullben", "Column", and "Koloman".
I have every right to correct them on the pronunciation of my name.

You can't just declare the correct pronunciation of a word/ name without having created it.
Therefor, if the creator of the ******* .gif file format says it should be pronounced "Jiff", then why the **** are you bitching about it?
Go ahead, keep pronouncing it "Gyph".

"To-may-toe, To-mah-toe"

I apologize if my tone gave off the wrong idea, but please notice that I'm not saying that the hard g sound pronunciation is the correct and only way to say "gif". Especially now that the creator has declared its proper pronunciation, I certainly have no argument to go against that. I had merely meant out that I don't believe the "giraffe" argument as a good means of defending the j sound. I have seen it used too many times, and it had finally gotten on my nerves enough to post about it.

However, if thi

Please ignore the small text at the end of my post. I was about to say something, decided against it, touched up my statement, and forgot about it.

No worries.
Thumbs for you for keeping your cool when I went a bit out of line there.

Ah, alright.
I see your point now.

Sorry if I came off as a bit rude.

I suppose he could've elaborated more on his argument like I did with mine.

Nope, I pronounce meme correctly.

Agreed. I always said it like "Jiff". When I heard my friend pronounce the "G" like the "G" in "goat" I looked at him like he said the word "meme" like "maymay"....

another one. i always say "meem" for meme.

They can thumb it down. Just how I always see it.

it's like gene, where the term originates. You say geen, not ge-ne... english is confusing