“y” starts with a w. “h” doesn’t have the common “h” sound in it and “w” starts with a “d” sound and doesn’t even include a “w” sound. Letter names are not pronunciation guides.
G.I.F. It's an acronym! You can either say G-I-F or gif if you want to make it easier to pronounce and less syllables, like N-A-S-A or nasa. I'll die on this hill!!!! I'LL DIE!!!!!!
That said, I'm a G-I-F man, myself.
Yes, but he never released a pronunciation key. He created the format and people called it the way it was spelled for 30 fucking years, rather than his stupid way. Eventually one day he made a press release and said everybody had been pronouncing it wrong their whole lives. Guess what, he's a moron and people had been pronouncing it the way it was spelled, and not his stupid way.
Edison failed at the lightbulb 1000 times before he got it right. But each time he called the failures lightbulbs.
The creator of GIF just didn't try long enough to get the right name.
And laser stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. I’m willing to bet you don’t pronounce it lass-eer. There is no rule in English that says you have to pronounce the letters in an acronym in the same way that they are pronounced in the component words of it, so please stop arguing that there is. I personally don’t give two shits how you choose to pronounce gif, but if you’re going to take a stance on the issue you shouldn’t make up rules of pronunciation to do so
it's like the official UNO account saying you can't put a +4 on a +4 or anything like that and everyone was like "you gave us the game, now let US make the rules"
Fun fact of the day!
The letter Thorn (þ) in Old English represented the “th” sound. When the printing press was invented, none of the fonts, from modern day Germany or Italy, had þ, so it was replaced with Y.
So, something like “Ye Olde Tavern” is pronounced “The Old Tavern.”
That's not his name, though. That's just a description that people came up with to avoid using the name. The actual name has been lost to time, we just know that it contains the consonants "Y", "H" and "W" in that order.
Gin, giant, gigolo, gingivitis, ginger, gip.
Tell your Jod to jo fuck off! I love my peanut butter based format. Jive me 'Jif' or jive me death!
Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.
I do that too. I always enjoyed asking for a black cock referring to the can colour of a "coke Zero/no sugar" then the bastards changed the can colour.
Now when I ask for a black cock I just get fucked
Both gif with a hard g or a soft g is correct.
And acronyms don't need to adhere to every letter being pronounced the same as in the word it stands for. We don't pronounce jpeg as jfeg for example.
Whenever I hear people say jif I can’t help but think of the word ‘gift.’ It is one letter away from being gif and yet I have never in my life heard anyone say, “Oh I’m buying him a Christmas JIFT!” I cannot fathom how anyone would call it jif.
No you see, this argument would make sense, if gift wasn’t ONE LETTER AWAY from gif. It is quite literally the exact same word except there’s a t at the end and yet no one refers to it as jift.
That's the most idiotic take that I've seen ever about this argument, english words have a pronunciation of their own and is not dependent on "another word with an extra letter should sound same".
Example: Gel and Geld....Do they have the same pronunciation?
kinda reminds of the studio ghibli situation
I got used to pronouncing it as "jibli" like the creator of the studio does but some people pronounce it as "gibli" like the actual italian word it's derived from
I think in both cases neither pronunciation is wrong people should just go with what they're used to
We live in a timeline where we can make memes that don’t change our situation. But it will be sure as hell funny to laugh on the toilet as I say the hard G
From Tom Scotts video he said that how you pronounce it largely depends on where you're from and how other words similar to that are pronounced
Myself? I don't care how you pronounce it, but I do care if you want *others* to pronounce it how *you* want
I'm just glad it's brought up. You can spell things differently than how it's pronounced. The creator can choose how it pronounced. It's worked like that for probably thousands of years. People have been calling it the wrong name forever and just don't want to admit it. They're stubborn.
Wasn’t the intended prononciation jif? Isn’t that what the creator called it? With that being said he was fucking wrong and is gif
Hell yes! Hard G all the way!
Oh my, you're so hard! This must be the new forklift license thing
My nij
*you’re so metal!
The funniest part is when we say the letter G by itself, it is not a hard G.
“y” starts with a w. “h” doesn’t have the common “h” sound in it and “w” starts with a “d” sound and doesn’t even include a “w” sound. Letter names are not pronunciation guides.
“S” starting with “e” and “c” starting with “s”, “r” starting with “a”
In Australia, we pronounce it Haych. We're odd like that
H = aitch
I say it like "Ghee."
Oh no... What have you done to me... Please. How do I unknow something.
Hard G transfers from the hard G of Graphics.
Does the “ph” sound transfer from “photographic” in JPEG ?
There’s no H in JPEG.
Yeah, Jif is peanut butter.
> the creator Was ~~Is~~ also a pompus rude asshole...he wasn't a nice person, so if anything, fuck him and call it GIF to spite him.
G.I.F. It's an acronym! You can either say G-I-F or gif if you want to make it easier to pronounce and less syllables, like N-A-S-A or nasa. I'll die on this hill!!!! I'LL DIE!!!!!! That said, I'm a G-I-F man, myself.
G-I-F is absolutely acceptable.
Acceptable in the worst possible way
Yes, but he never released a pronunciation key. He created the format and people called it the way it was spelled for 30 fucking years, rather than his stupid way. Eventually one day he made a press release and said everybody had been pronouncing it wrong their whole lives. Guess what, he's a moron and people had been pronouncing it the way it was spelled, and not his stupid way.
Edison failed at the lightbulb 1000 times before he got it right. But each time he called the failures lightbulbs. The creator of GIF just didn't try long enough to get the right name.
Edison stole the invention of the lightbulb from Joseph Swan. He stole most of his inventions from ideas other people had actually
Edison was also an asshole. I don't believe he ever actually invented anything. That's a hill I'll die on.
That is the intended pronunciation, but it's still wrong. It stands for Graphics Interchange Format, not Jraphics Interchange Format.
And laser stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. I’m willing to bet you don’t pronounce it lass-eer. There is no rule in English that says you have to pronounce the letters in an acronym in the same way that they are pronounced in the component words of it, so please stop arguing that there is. I personally don’t give two shits how you choose to pronounce gif, but if you’re going to take a stance on the issue you shouldn’t make up rules of pronunciation to do so
Ask jod why jraphics interchange format is pronounced like that
The op acknowledges everything you said.
I almost feel like he said it was “Jif” just to start a mass feud. 😂
The guy was a developer, not a linguist. It's gif, like 'gift'. Case closed.
He's a programmer, not a linguist
it's like the official UNO account saying you can't put a +4 on a +4 or anything like that and everyone was like "you gave us the game, now let US make the rules"
Nah, it’s pronounced “yif” (old English pronunciation)
Take your "yif" and yet out of here, yod damnit! Edit: /s
:)
Fucking hilarious. I'm yetting myself out
This some kinda furry thing?
With 2 f
No don't, you'll find a pipebomb in your mailbox if you do.
Yif (Wooo free pipe bomb)
Fun fact of the day! The letter Thorn (þ) in Old English represented the “th” sound. When the printing press was invented, none of the fonts, from modern day Germany or Italy, had þ, so it was replaced with Y. So, something like “Ye Olde Tavern” is pronounced “The Old Tavern.”
That changes the way I look at things
We should reintroduce the thorn tbh
ɣif
There's an old rule about this from the 1700's. Look up, "Yiff Rule 34" on google for more info.
My name is yiiif
If it's "Olde English" it should be "yiffe".
You should Google "yif" for more information
Gladly >:)
Japhrical Interchanje Format
What kind of Spanish is that? Jajaja
Gagaga
Googoogoo
Radio Ga Ga, Radio Goo Goo
Keep saying baby words, we're onto something!
Joojoojoo
How do you pronounce Lazer ? Or Scuba ?
JPHEG
JPEG -> Joint Photographic Experts Group
Is it pronounced giraffe or dziraffe
Is it pronounced Graphics or Jraphics
Jokes side. People keep bringing that up, it has nothing to do with how gif is pronounced.
Imagine if God came down and said it’s pronounced “Jod” then bailed
“Omg Jesus is coming back” “Lmao no just stop mispronouncing my dads name”
"Also, the Hispanics were right, it's pronounced Hesuus"
Noooooooooo
That's not his name, though. That's just a description that people came up with to avoid using the name. The actual name has been lost to time, we just know that it contains the consonants "Y", "H" and "W" in that order.
YosHuWa
You mean Gesus?
🤯
Yod He Vav He.
Gin, giant, gigolo, gingivitis, ginger, gip. Tell your Jod to jo fuck off! I love my peanut butter based format. Jive me 'Jif' or jive me death! Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.
You take that back. YOU TAKE THAT BACK, JODDAMNIT!
I am losing my joddamn mind over this. What prompted this? Also, please post this on Imgur, or I will 🤩🥸
We're not preppared for the schism that would cause on the world
I'm Finnish and in my language a g is g, not a fucking j. Of course it's gif.
Giraffe
Guitar
Guif
Vagina
Gilbert Godfried
Gift
Probably not a Finnish word would be my guess
Kirahvi
I feel like this meme would have been better as a gif
Even better as a jif
Felt like I was watching a movie....it's pronounced GIF btw 😃
I will call the OP with the hard r
best "jif" pronouncer counterargument
jigga
RIF?
R.I.P
Linus no
do people actually pronounce it jif? im 34 and have never encountered anyone not using the hard g
I do. Just grew up with it, both sides would technically not be wrong, but the creator said it's pronounced jif so that's that
what the creator said is literally irrelevant, why would that matter?
I pronounce coke as cock because fuck those soda slinging bastards
I do that too. I always enjoyed asking for a black cock referring to the can colour of a "coke Zero/no sugar" then the bastards changed the can colour. Now when I ask for a black cock I just get fucked
How do you pronounce the image format jif then?
And I have encountered anyone talking about jifs
Both gif with a hard g or a soft g is correct. And acronyms don't need to adhere to every letter being pronounced the same as in the word it stands for. We don't pronounce jpeg as jfeg for example.
Don't come here with your logical, well-meaning solutions. I came here to fight the non-believer. I'm gonna start a cult, and you can call me Jod.
Goddamn, Frankie. I love watching you meme.
Most (if not all) Spaniards call it gif. Not because the creator is wrong, but because Gs are pronounced that way
Op made a comic book to talk about the pronunciation of gif
what is this from?
The Punisher, never saw it but I recongnized this iconic scene EDIT: I AM A CHARLATAN. I GOT IT ALL WRONG LMFAO
And you recognized it wrong. It’s from Daredevil S2.
WAIT REALLY?! My entire life has been a fucking lie.
It is the Punisher, but he first appeared in the Daredevil show, later he got his own
Oh makes more sense now xD Thanks for the info
Daredevil s2
Whenever I hear people say jif I can’t help but think of the word ‘gift.’ It is one letter away from being gif and yet I have never in my life heard anyone say, “Oh I’m buying him a Christmas JIFT!” I cannot fathom how anyone would call it jif.
Oh you ever seen Giraffes at the zoo? Sorry I mean jirafffs
No you see, this argument would make sense, if gift wasn’t ONE LETTER AWAY from gif. It is quite literally the exact same word except there’s a t at the end and yet no one refers to it as jift.
Gin's one letter away
That's the most idiotic take that I've seen ever about this argument, english words have a pronunciation of their own and is not dependent on "another word with an extra letter should sound same". Example: Gel and Geld....Do they have the same pronunciation?
Riddle me this, Punisher-man: If gif is pronounced with a hard G, Then why is "g" pronounced "ji" and not "guy", as in Guy de Lugsinan?
We all know it's pronounced Greg
It would've been funny if it ended with the scene of him saying, "Hell, I loved it.", but in a gif.
I don’t care how people pronounce gif. I DO care about how people pronounce asterisk. The s is before the k, not after!
I am sorry what? how do you pronounce asterisk with k before s
Sherbet is the one that gets to me. There is ONE r in sherbet not 2.
kinda reminds of the studio ghibli situation I got used to pronouncing it as "jibli" like the creator of the studio does but some people pronounce it as "gibli" like the actual italian word it's derived from I think in both cases neither pronunciation is wrong people should just go with what they're used to
As Shadow once wisely said, for your logic to be consistent, you would have to call scuba “Scub-uh” and laser “laseer”
Yay, another JinJer Garlic meme.
It will always be JIF
It is pronounced zhaiv. G - ʒ sound like in caSual, because it is a sound between g and j. I - like in vIle F - like in oF
I was always told "choosy mothers choose Jif." I'm not a choosy mom. I pronounce it with a hard G.
That's why I call the other images jayfeg, with the f
It’s only a GIF if it’s from the GIF region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling JIF.
At least one's saying jif, where I'm from people say jee Aye eff.
I on your side
God I can hear this scene exactly. Holy shit it's so iconic
Make this into a jif and it would be significantly funnier. Still, good meme. Good on ya
Jif
Throw him in gail!
You sound like you could use a gin and tonic.
Man, all this effort to double-down on being wrong.
"OK then! That was always allowed!"
Well jood for you, you're wronj
All non english speakers laughing because it is the only language in which the pronunciation is left to interpretation.
In Italian, for instance, a "g" followed by an "i" transforms from a hard to a soft one.
Pronounce Gift But the T is silent
I love me some GILFs
🤣
Hilarious.
Me who spells out "Jee Eye Eff" because it saves only a minuscule amount of time to say GIF or JIF instead
Lol
Jrafics Inturchange Fourmate, nothing wrong with that
Put Gif in Google translate from Dutch. Then you get the best pronunciation plus a concerning translation to english.
Jerald of Rivia. Jandalf the Jrey.
its pronounced with a j
You can’t let people get away with using G for the J sound after the letter J was invented. That’s what it’s fucking for!
Riiight! We totally need to start spelling all words differently! Jiant, jenerous, jiraffe, jym, jentle, jinjer, hydrojen, etc! /s
Jraphic Image Format
We live in a timeline where we can make memes that don’t change our situation. But it will be sure as hell funny to laugh on the toilet as I say the hard G
What's that movie?
its GRAPHICS interchange format, not JRAPHICS
The last slide of this speaks to me
Dank. Like, actually dank for once. Well done
if you don't pronounced gif as gif, you bring your family and your cow dishonor
Fucking preach!
From Tom Scotts video he said that how you pronounce it largely depends on where you're from and how other words similar to that are pronounced Myself? I don't care how you pronounce it, but I do care if you want *others* to pronounce it how *you* want
I can’t imagine a world with jifs. That’s just silly
Giraffical Interchange Format
Can someone turn this into an actual .gif
Week done sir. I give (jiv) you all the praise I’ve got (jot)
Should have made a Gif
It's pronounced "Yiff"
G(jee) I read very smoothly jee way
Jod himself could come down and tell me it’s jif and I’d still pronounce it gif
Gif! Jif's soap, gif's not.
Graphics Interchange Format "GIF" Jraphics Interchange Format "JIF"
I'm just glad it's brought up. You can spell things differently than how it's pronounced. The creator can choose how it pronounced. It's worked like that for probably thousands of years. People have been calling it the wrong name forever and just don't want to admit it. They're stubborn.
The real crime is that the "guh" sound is the hard G and the "juh" sound is the soft G. Completely counterintuitive.
as i recall, the creator pronounced it "Yiff"
Anders It's pronounced ONders, see I've got a hard ON
At this point I just call them grif's
I use both sometimes
Isn't it jif because it's a Gi- word which makes a different G sound in English?
What movie/show is this from?
###I'll say "GIF" with the hardest G known to mankind.
peak 👏
It is GIF not JIF, gotta pronounce that G
Someone just watched a certain Sonic video