@drmaddkap Why JIF if the G stands for GRAPHICAL?

@drmaddkap he later retconned it and said that most people preferred the pronunciation with a hard g, so that is how it was officially meant to be pronounced going forward.

@drmaddkap "The creator said it's JIF!" Well I haven't heard anyone call SCSI "sexy" either

@drmaddkap English is not phonetic anyway, and it has huge pronunciation variance around the world. I pronounce it kraken.

@drmaddkap It will always be “jif” to me.

@drmaddkap He loved working with jraphics.

@drmaddkap@meow.social "IT IS PRONOUNCED 'JIF'."

"...Right, Jod, whatever you say."

@drmaddkap I assume you also pronounce “jpeg” with an “f” sound. That’s fubar (pronounced with an “ah” instead of “oo”) ;)

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I expect you prefer Jay-Feg anyway.

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I added GIF87a image capability to software I was working on in like 1988 and back then everyone pronounced them JIF images incl on CompuServe where they came from, and as far as I’m concerned the only thing a hard-G pronunciation signifies is that someone’s a latecomer.

The tables will turn, have no fear. By 2040 or 2050 when net-newbies pronounce Google as “go-oh-gle” and Apple as “epp-leh” and TikTok as “teek-took,” you cranky curmudgeons you will finally understand.

Hopefully.

@drmaddkap He was probably a fan of gin.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iafa959JvY

#GIF #Pedantry #Humor

@drmaddkap craziest covid death yet