• protist@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    But the g in gif stands for “graphical,” not “giraffe!” You silly goose

    • TommySalami@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      yeah man, just like you go scuba diving oo-nderwater.

      it’s a dead end. We can’t pretend that “g” can’t also be pronounced as “j”, or that the words making up the acronym matter. It’s all preference and since GIF’s dad called it “jif”, I’m gonna call it “jif”. At least that’s based on something beyond my own hubris.

      • Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        This is my thinking - as far as I know he actually called it that as a reference to jif peanut butter.

      • Instigate@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        Saying it with a hard G because ‘graphical’ has a hard G is a reason based on something beyond hubris.

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          1 year ago

          It’s a reason that doesn’t hold true even in our most common acronyms: SCUBA, RADAR, and NASA.

          So, no…pretending that something is an actual rule of English acronyms just because you think it really ought to be is exactly still hubris.

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      1 year ago

      That’s easily the worst reasoning for the hard-g considering how we don’t pronounce the letters of most acronyms based on the phrases they come from.

      • Nora@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Tell that to Qantas, the abomination of all acronyms. WHERE IS THE U??? AAAAAAAAA