Palamon
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How do you pronounce gif?
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"Jif" or "Gif"?
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Firebolt
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Listen Legoland, I don't live in the Kingdom of Jondor. Link to a 9Gag post, for those who don't know what I'm talking about. 😂
Sadly for Boromir and myself, the creator has come out to say it's pronounced 'jif', and according to the common rules of English, the 'g' is is indeed meant to be a soft g when it's succeeded by an i, e, or y (just Googled it, I can't usually remember this). However, it's always going to be gif in my heart, and it'll always be gif until the word 'graphics' suddenly becomes 'jraphics'.
Sadly for Boromir and myself, the creator has come out to say it's pronounced 'jif', and according to the common rules of English, the 'g' is is indeed meant to be a soft g when it's succeeded by an i, e, or y (just Googled it, I can't usually remember this). However, it's always going to be gif in my heart, and it'll always be gif until the word 'graphics' suddenly becomes 'jraphics'.
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gif always, never jif
The latter sounds too weird I'm sorry
The latter sounds too weird I'm sorry
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if you say jif you're just wrong. i will die on this hill
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I don't care what the creator says gif is the only way.
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Oh god, this can of worms... I've been reading it like gif for as long as I can remember. No one in my surrounding says jif and I'm sure as heck not going to be the "akshually" guy.
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Does it really matter at this point?
Palamon
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I've always said it as "jif"
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i say GIF because im right
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It absolutely does if you're me and gain satisfaction from making others frustrated when I say "jif". I go out of my way to be annoying if I don't particularly like the other person.
It absolutely does if you're me and gain satisfaction from making others frustrated when I say "jif". I go out of my way to be annoying if I don't particularly like the other person.
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Depends on the language I'm using.
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Geef. To be the awkward one.
Magitronique
I SWALLOW SLUDGE TO TRANSFORM MYSELF
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team "gif" until i'm team dead
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I only ever say JIF if I feel like pissing people off lmao.
Honestly I don't know why it's caused such a heated debate. Why do people care so much about this?
Honestly I don't know why it's caused such a heated debate. Why do people care so much about this?
Now this is innovation at its finest. I'll use this in the future.
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man some people in this thread really must pronounce giraffe with a hard g