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• TommySalami@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• hamFoilHat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just like jpeg is pronounced “jfeg”

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• kibiz0r@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The j in jpeg stands for “photographic”.

  So… “jay-feg”?

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