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Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• MxM111@kbin.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  And it had a gift.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Was it a gyro?

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    • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      If it were gyf or gir, then it could have been gyro or giraffe. But no, it was a gift of gif.

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Sorry, did you say it had a gif?

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• hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I mean it’s funny but of course you are objectively wrong.

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  But the g in gif stands for “graphical,” not “giraffe!” You silly goose

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  • TommySalami@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    yeah man, just like you go scuba diving oo-nderwater.

    it’s a dead end. We can’t pretend that “g” can’t also be pronounced as “j”, or that the words making up the acronym matter. It’s all preference and since GIF’s dad called it “jif”, I’m gonna call it “jif”. At least that’s based on something beyond my own hubris.

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    • Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      This is my thinking - as far as I know he actually called it that as a reference to jif peanut butter.

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    • Instigate@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Saying it with a hard G because ‘graphical’ has a hard G is a reason based on something beyond hubris.

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  • SuperIce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That’s easily the worst reasoning for the hard-g considering how we don’t pronounce the letters of most acronyms based on the phrases they come from.

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    • norawibb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Tell that to Qantas, the abomination of all acronyms. WHERE IS THE U??? AAAAAAAAA

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  • hamFoilHat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Just like jpeg is pronounced “jfeg”

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  • kibiz0r@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The j in jpeg stands for “photographic”.

    So… “jay-feg”?

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  You lie guraffos are lies told by whores and god

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• Ktheone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Don’t you mean a jay-raffe?

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• SwallowsDick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  This one is good

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