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Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨days⊠agothe people who pronounce GIF like the peanut butter.
I call it âJiffâ and will defend it to the death, for no other reason than I think itâs hilarious to have a very strong opinion on something so irrelevant. People get soo mad about it :D
0x0@lemmy.zip â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
echodot@feddit.uk â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
I always like to point out that outside of the US, Jiff means drain cleaner, although maybe thatâs just a commentary on the quality of the peanut butter. Although frankly it doesnât make the acronym any less ridiculous.
Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
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The PB is spelled Jif, not Jiff.
The acronym isnât ridiculous, itâs how the creator of the acronym pronounced it. People should be able to name their own babies.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Tell that to the SQL folks.
And yes, itâs âsequelâ. And âgifâ like âgiftâ.
Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
I did, they say they agree with me.
How do you pronounce Porsche? Do you say âPor-shhâ or âPor-shuhâ?
What about Volkswagen? Is it Volks-wah-gen or Volks-vah-gun?
How about Hyundai? âHon-Dayâ or âHai-un-daiâ
If you look up the âcorrectâ way to pronounce them, I bet you will get a different answer to what you thought it was. Are the former pronunciations only correct in the U.S. but when you travel to Germany or South Korea they become incorrect?
Your argument is a descriptivist one, but how do you determine which is the ârightâ pronunciation if both ways of pronouncing a thing are commonly used?
Interesting, so what do you think of the people in this thread who say that LaTeX is pronounced âLay-techâ? Would the ârightâ way to say it change if enough people started pronouncing it âwrongâ?
bss03@infosec.pub â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
I disagree. I think persons should name themselves. But, I understand there are practicalities that require some name to be assigned by outsiders at least until the person can talk.
For things that arenât conscious or are incapable of speech, I think we collectively assign a name. Iâm fine giving higher weight to the name chosen by the âcreatorâ or âdiscoverâ, but Iâm not fine with giving them veto power / final cut.
Wolf@lemmy.today â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
Did you know Dr. Seuss name is actually pronounced more like Zoyce or Soice (rhymes with voice, not moose)? And he wanted people to pronounce it correctly?
Iâm actually usually unconcerned by how people pronounce things, but I think taking a manâs own name away goes a bit far.