cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/70869345
Credit to Jack Scully
Jraphics Interchange Format
The optimal format for interchanging 256-colour palletised animated images of giraffes.
That would be a gift.
It’s pronounced guiraffes.
The pronunciation of an anagram’s component words has no bearing on the anagram’s pronunciation.
Why not?
I think that question is best posed to the Joint Photographic Experts Group, better known as “jay-fegg”.
(For the record, I’m in camp “G as in Graphic”, but it’s still true that an acronym’s source words don’t dictate the pronunciation.)
They dont absolutely define it, but they certainly contribute. Assuming one or the other as sole definer seems silly.
Except they don’t. The vast majority of acronyms have at least one letter that’s pronounced differently than in the word it’s representing. Any correlation is purely coincidental.
So occasionally one letter doesnt fit with the rest… doesnt that mean that the rule is not absolute and my statement is correct? That often the originating phrase contributes and often it does not, and that neither is exclusive to the other?
NASA and LASER would like a word.
wait hang on… nasa works. laser is more iffy.
If you’re pronouncing NASA and Aeronautics the same way you’re definitely saying one of them wrong.
it’s a very subtle difference, if you don’t count the /æ/ diphthong. i think i could get away with it.
joint pottographics interchange group
Technically the original JPEG container format is “JIF”, throwing another wildcard into the mix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_File_Interchange_Format
The base specifications for a JPEG container format are defined in Annex B of the JPEG standard, known as JPEG Interchange Format (JIF).
Jay-fog is going to be my new
That said it’s still gif (not jiff).
MySQL would love this kind of recognition, instead it just gets turned into "My"SQL.
for those who don’t know, the y is pronounced like in “candy”. it’s named after the creator’s daughter, just like the successor project mariadb.
Mysqueel sounds good though
My Sequel has always been my preference.
Once and for all, its pronounced “gif”, let this end all the back and forth.
Thank you for resolving this debate so resolutely
Oh! My client doesn’t animate it if I tap for full image, so I didn’t realize it was a jif.
Every day we stray further from Jod.
Jesse Faden would manage it just fine.
I’ve never heard of Gesse Faden.
Oh no, what are you going to do? Send me to gaol?
Who the hell says “Jif?” Jiff is a god damned penut butter.
I say it that way. It comes from reading a article about the brand new graphics format with a included pronunciation., You write/invent it and you get to decide. Not a whole bunch of late comers who weren’t even a gleam in their daddies eye when it was developed.
I don’t care if he invented it, he’s saying it wrong.
Only morons call it “Jif.” That’s stupid.Hahahahaha. Look in the mirror. How do you say Giraffe? lol.
Who the hell says “Jif?” Jiff is a god damned penut butter.
The creators of Jif call it Jif, and they’re clearly authoritative!
It stands for Giraffic Interchange Format. It’s designed for giraffes.
My coworker used “jif” the other day, and man… Did I just like immediately lose respect for her.
I didn’t even know I cared, and I didn’t say anything… But like, wtf? Lol
That guns got Sandevistan?
How about we stop policing the pronunciation and use of specific words as a way to feel like we have control over the lack of effective communication elsewhere in our lives?
If it works to get the listener to know what you are talking about? Then what is the issue?
My problem is that we already have a word jiff, meaning a short amount of time. The overlap in use is minimal, but why add ambiguity.
And don’t get me started on to, too, and two.
Their, there, they’re.
Its ok that you can’t tell those words apart.But also don’t ask people to not do what you can’t understand? Or do people in wheelchairs boo at the Olympics?
He loved nothing more than jivving jifts to his wife and family at Christmas.
Actually he was not married at the time, making her his jirlfriend
Oh jod
I don’t animate with American brand peanutbutter.
How do you pronounce gibbet?
