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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's an acronym standing for graphic interchange format. Not that I care all that much tbh. Reminds me of parents naming their kid cVIIItlyn. Sure you can pronounce it whatever you want, doesn't make you any less stupid. Also, iirc it was invented by a team, what do the rest of them say?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s an acronym standing for graphic interchange format.

That doesn't affect how it's pronounced.

LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. If you were going to pronounce it based on how those words are pronounced it would be "Lahseer".

The best reason to pronounce "gif" with a hard g is that the closest word we have is "gift" and that uses a hard g.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just wanna say I didn't downvote you.

I get your argument, maybe we SHOULD pronounce it lahseer, sounds cool.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lahseer does sound cool, but I'm in favor of words being spelled as fonetikuhly as possible in English.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In order to do that, we have to clean up what each letter does first. The whole reason the gif fight started is because G and J overlap in sound values a lot. And don't get me started on S, C, K, & Q.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And O.

But, still, there are letters that have fairly consistent pronunciations. Where possible we should try to stick with those.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I've given up on vowels. Mercedes, Echinacea, Manoeuvre, shield, beige, just throw them around until it looks right.