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[–] NessD@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Gif as in gift. Anything else is nonsense!

[–] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The girl's gig to give the gift of gifs

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Doug@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Gilded gibbons

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 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?

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but JIF is a different file format, so pronouncing it as "jif" just creates overlap.

Also every single one of those G's should be replaced with the letter J; English needs spelling reform.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Also also, GIF stands for Graphical Interchange Format, and that's definitely a G sound.

By the way, the format can't die soon enough. PNG and video formats are more compact and better quality too. Time to bury this zombie.

[–] NessD@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Combinations of letters before and after change the pronunciation of certain parts of a word. None of your words have "gif" pronounced a "jif". If you have one, tell me. I'm seriously curious if there is a word. As of now the only reference I have is "gift" with a hard g.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] xanu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago