Jiv me a break

I will face Jod and walk backward into hell before I say "jiff"

Clearly you're not a choosy mom.
- Plebe moms choose ghif.
How do you say gin or giraffe? Or literally the letter G?
- I pronounce them like Gin and Giraffe
- gift: (do u say jift)

Like the G in "gigantic".

And "gigolo."
Fun random fact: the portmanteau word "ginormous" dates to WWII RAF slang.
- I did not realise until now that "ginormous" is a portmanteau
and the letter 'G'

Jraphic interface format really sounds right /s

Right, because Gs are never pronounced with a "J" sound, and acronyms are never pronounced differently than their full terms. Sound logic there; well done. Never mind any of these:
NASA- National Aeronautics Space Uhdministration
NATO- North Ayy-tlantic Treaty Organization
LASER- Light Ayy-mplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
SCUBA- Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus
FOMO- Fear ohhf missing ohht
ASAP- Ayys soon ayys possible
POC- People ohhf solor
PIN- Personal id-entification number
BOGO- Buy ohhn get ohhn
POTUS- President ohhf the Uhhnited States
YOLO- You only live ohhnce
AWOL- Ayy-bsent without awfficial leave
ICE- Eyemmigration and Sustoms Enforcement
DARE- Drug Ayybuse Resistance Education
- NASA - National Ah-ronautics and Space Uh-dministration
  LASER - Light Ay-mplification by Ztimulated Eh-mission of Radiation
  ICE - Eye-mmigration and Sustoms -nforcement (E is silent)
  DARE - Drug Ay-buse Resistance -ducation (ditto)
Let me just get my Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus ready /s
National Aeronautics and Space Uhdministration /s
- I think it's because words that end with sa, have that uh sound. Like Medusa, salsa, mesa, mimosa
Light aimplification by ztimulated emission of radiation just has a nice ring to it /s
- I believe that's "uhmission"

oh that's easy, it's "dot gif"

Yiff

Um, I don't know how to tell you, but that means a wiiiildly different thing. 🤣

Why do people have to pronounced it in any way? Why not say G-I-F? I've been saying it like that since before I knew about the huge debate💀

Because that's 3 syllables instead of 1. Ain't nobody got time for that!
- RE-RE-RE-REEEEEMMMIIIXXX
- How do you pronounce JIF, then? (That's the JPEG Interchange Format.)

It's actually pronounced yif

I was devastated to learn the creators intended it to be pronounced "jif" like the peanut butter brand

Yeah, because it's a jraphical interface format.
- So do you say j-feg? Because the p stands for photographic
- One of the common nonsensical arguments heard. What's the next one?
- Giraffical
One of the few times I don't care what the creator says, he was wrong.
- And yet your mind knows it's not possible for him to be wrong since he named it.
Me too. I feel like no one pronounced it jif before they said that, and now we have to have an eternal debate over it
I say dʒɪf, but the way the person who invented it wants you to say it is a really dumb basis for how something is pronounced, imo.

Gif, the jift that keeps on jivving.

We all know it's pronounced "gif".
- Yeah with the g like in garage.

I take the third route and pronounce it Heef, as in Spanish

Pronounced it as a soft g in my head the first time I read it, and years later the creator said it was meant to be a soft g, so I feel validated.

When you create an image format, name it whatever you want and if it's any good and I use it, I'll call it what you want

Yoofo :(

whichever way pisses off the most people

watch me pronounce it /χäɪf/ ("hyfe")

Isn't that one of Elon Muskrat's kids?
When I want to be annoying (and when the people I'm talking to are aware of furries), I pronounce it 'yiff'

Some say gif, others say gif. The people saying gif are correct.

Ya damn giraffe-loving gifter

ʒaɪf

rhymes with "knife"

"I'm not brave enough for politics."

Immediately makes a hot take.

That's the plan. Always has been.

“The correct way, of course.”

the correct answer is hard-g soft-g ee ef ef: ggi F.F.

You had me until the short bus joke. Are you aware that's ~~vaguely~~ super ableist?
- Assuming short busses are the same as minibusses, it's kinda funny because my old school district uses them for transporting the 'intellectually gifted' students to a special advanced class. so 'taking the minibus' is something of a compliment where I'm from.

Whatever causes the asker to have the biggest breakdown at the time!

"4G-LTE"? Well that's 'Forgull'ty'

Reminds me of "L‘mao" and "C‘tryl“

Hard G. It's “Graphics Interchange Format”, not “Jraphics Interchange Format”.

Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?
Now, while pronouncing "G", close your lips to make the sound "G-if".
There you have it, how to pronounce "Gif".
Ps: honestly, That just popped up in my head a moment ago and I'm just trying to troll, wholeheartedly I believe it is hard-G as in Graphics.
- Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?
  According to wikipedia the phonetic usage includes:
  [g] [d͡ʒ] [ʒ] [ŋ] [j] [ɣ_{ʝ]
  [x}χ] [d͡z] [ɟ] [k] [ɠ] [ɢ] /dʒiː/
  For English pronunciation it lists:
  /dʒ/ /ɡ/ /ʒ/ and silent
Does that mean you also pronounce scuba sku•ba instead of skoo•bah? Because that U stands for Underwater not OOnderwater. And what about Jpeg? Shouldn't it be Jeg because the P in photographic is silent.
- Or jfeg because photography has an f sound.
  It's soft g gif. Because the original joke was choosy moms choose jif, and choosy web developers choose gif.

The ancient Arcadians actually pronounced it .flif

.jeff

I have a friend named Geoff who says gif with a hard G. I like to pronounce his name with a hard G after that. Geff.
Bezos

Is there a prequels meme community on lemmy?

There is!
!prequelmemes@lemmy.ml
Edit: the general Star Wars meme community is more active: !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
Edit edit: and there's also !prequelmemes@lemmy.world

I grew up without ever having to say it out loud, and the first time I did I say "dot Gee Eye Eff".

I stand by this as the correct pronunciation. .exe, .pdf, .html, .PNG, etc you say as "dot" followed by the letters, why should .jpg and .gif be any different?

ekseh, pdff, ping

I didn't know about the wrong way to say it until that LOTR meme.

Classic

It's "dot Ge I Ef"