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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It's not Data, the correct pronunciation is Data.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one on the left is pronounced GIF and the one on the right is pronounced GIF.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually, I'm pretty sure you have them flipped

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're both wrong, the G is silent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

One is my name, the other is not.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Gif as in gift. Anything else is nonsense!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The girl's gig to give the gift of gifs

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ever seen a geriatric geologist named George at the gym? How about a giant ginger giraffe drunk on gin. What about a genderless genealogist cutting generic gems?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Graphics Interchange Format. Hard G.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I use a hard G but this is a bad argument. I'll just link to this great list of counterexamples:

https://lemmy.world/comment/2216080

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How do you pronounce JPEG?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you pronounce origin like the state?

Do you you also say "nay-say" when reading NASA, lol, that logic is flawed.

I'd like to remind everyone that the rules for words amd pronunciation were documented AFTER most words, which is why it's so inconsistent and arbitrary

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The acronym for NASA uses the same sounds as the words that make the acronym. Same as GIF so I'm not sure what your point is. Mine is that GIF stands for graphics interchange format and graphics starts with a hard g therefore GIF should start with a hard g.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Always pronounce it "GIF."

Never "JIF."

Only Lore does that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Uhm achtckyally it's GIF

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Way to start another flame war Xusontha! Or is it Zusontha?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

...It's secretly a Greek letter chi, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Data definitely says the hard g. His interests are in being more human. Not pedantically arguing about the way the creator says things in an attempt to upend the majority. The latter is definitely Lore's jam, though

Be more like Data.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Choosy websites choose gif.

(And if anyone gets that reference I'll be thrilled.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It really hits every spot on the spectrum from minion to stripper dances lol

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell is a gigawatt?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pronounced "jijawatt":
gigawatts

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It all depends if you pronounce it
Graphics interchange format
Or
Jraphics interchange format

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's Gif the Giraffe!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I pronounce it like gin but I don't really care how someone else pronounces it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lore: It's pronounced GIF... because of the implication.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't care as long as you don't say Jetpack to JPG like my old collegue used to say.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Whut

That's an actual crime

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Do you pronounce origin like the state?

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