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[Red]

Well?

 

[Remilia Scarlet]

You'll pry the hard G and short I from my cold dead hands.

[geo]

Which is which? Is Jif the hard G or is Gif the hard G? Gif is the hard G right?

 

Every time I've said it out loud I've said G-I-F. J-P-G, P-N-G and so on.

[Red]

3 minutes ago, geo said:

Which is which?

Hard G is like Goat and Soft G is like Gym

[geo]

Gift. Not Jiffy Pop.

[Doomkid]

[CzechMate29200]

Squishy G

[konamikode]

Hard G for me. Excited to see this intense... "battle" play out. What pronunciation will win?

[Red]

Summary execution for Soft G sympathizers. 

[CARRiON]

Reminds me of gib or jib.

[Doomkid]

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Summary execution for Soft G sympathizers. 

BRING IT, YO

[Remilia Scarlet]

2 minutes ago, CARRiON said:

Reminds me of gib or jib.

I always pronounced that with a hard G as well.

[CzechMate29200]

you see, this is why I like the Czech language. It is read how it's spelled. And shitty debates like this never happen. Also, spelling bees are a fucking breeze :)

Edited August 14, 2017 by CzechMate29200

[bioshockfan90]

soft g my man, G as in graphics not jiraffics

EDIT: ohhh hard G

Edited August 13, 2017 by bioshockfan90

[Remilia Scarlet]

A G as in "graphics" would be a hard G...

[bioshockfan90]

hard G

 

I'm dumb

Edited August 13, 2017 by bioshockfan90

[Voros]

I pronounce gif as G-I-F. Because "jif" and "gif" sound weird.

BTW did you know that Jif is the name of some peanut butter brand, and the team who created the gif format usually called the file format as jif?

[bioshockfan90]

soft G

 

I'm dumb

[everennui]

It's like knife, but with a g instead. Jah-eye-ph-augh almost like a soft h at the end. 

[Empyre]

4 hours ago, everennui said:

It's like knife, but with a g instead. Jah-eye-ph-augh almost like a soft h at the end. 

Are you an Idea Channel viewer?

 

I pronounce GIF like the format's creators pronounce it, with a soft G.

[Era Di Cate]

I pronounce it: GIFFF

 

with a rock-hard G. Jif feels like a naughty word, so GIFFF feels nicer for me to say.

[Spectre01]

Gif, gibs, giraffe - all with a hard G.

[Agentbromsnor]

I always pronounce it with a "hard G", because otherwise it sounds like "yiff".

[everennui]

@Empyre I think I heard it on v-sauce. 

[Tracer]

G like great, graphic, grandma, gain, or grain.

 

I selected the wrong option when I voted though because I confused hard and soft G sounds.

[antares031]

The pronunciation of G is weird. No offense to English speakers.

 

Anyway, since GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format, I pronounce it G from Graphics.

[Red]

For those answering with "Hard G because Graphics", do you pronounced Laser, light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, like lah-ser? Like in Lamp?

[Doomkid]

20 hours ago, antares031 said:

The pronunciation of G is weird. No offense to English speakers.

None taken, the language is a cobbled together mess of a thing

[snapshot]

Geronimo.

[Gez]

Soft G because in my native language there are clear rules for pronunciation and one of those is "c and g are always soft in front of e, i, and y; and always hard in any other circumstance". (Also the guy who named the format specifically wanted it to refer to the "in a jiffy" expression because the aim was to reduce download times back when 56K modems were considered broadband.)

 

English doesn't have any pronunciation rule, however, so I'd pronounce it something like "fnord" I think.