.gif or .gif?
.gif or .gif?
by Spider » Sat May 25, 2013 9:52 am
This has to be an internet thing. It can't be like the regional soda/pop/coke debate.
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Re: .gif or .gif?
by fstarcstar » Sat May 25, 2013 9:56 am
I say it like jiff too.
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Re: .gif or .gif?
by Stratego » Sat May 25, 2013 10:00 am
Hard G. It's Graphics Interchange Format not Giraffes Interchange Format.
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Re: .gif or .gif?
by Mo~ » Sat May 25, 2013 11:15 am
Jiff is a brand of peanut butter.
A gif. is a pic posted on an internet forum when some jackass has no rebuttal and can't even find a mistake in the opposition's post to go all, "If you can't even spell, your retarded." The "g" is pronounced the same as it is in "graphics".
A gif. is a pic posted on an internet forum when some jackass has no rebuttal and can't even find a mistake in the opposition's post to go all, "If you can't even spell, your retarded." The "g" is pronounced the same as it is in "graphics".
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Re: .gif or .gif?
by Winchester » Sat May 25, 2013 11:29 am
I always pronounced it with a hard g, for god sakes it's not gif peanut butter.
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Re: .gif or .gif?
by The Comrade » Sat May 25, 2013 11:31 am
the guy who invented it says hard g, no?
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Re: .gif or .gif?
by Spider » Sat May 25, 2013 11:36 am
The above video is of the inventor of the format, Steve Wilhite, btw. If we're saying that the inventor get's to decide how to pronounce an acronym, then its settled.
Jiff wins.
Jiff wins.
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Re: .gif or .gif?
by The Comrade » Sat May 25, 2013 11:46 am
oh, then he's wrong.
just because you invent something doesn't mean you get to bastardize the language.
just because you invent something doesn't mean you get to bastardize the language.
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