The format was originally designed to interchange animated palettised depictions of giraffes, so Giraffic Interchange Format made sense. They just changed the acronym when they realised that by storing different colours in the palette, you could depict things other than giraffes.
say the letters individually. Then do it again faster. Then again faster still. Once it becomes a single syllable instead of three, then you will have arrived at the correct pronunciation.
Because it will show you the error with your argument: Your approach to pronouncing acronyms is likely not consistent with the method you’re describing here.
I have always pronounced git as get (mostly because of accent) bit I watched a video the other day, and they pronounced it as Jit and my whole world fell apart. Was I pronouncing it wrong? Are they dumb? Was this secretly a gif jiff issue?
Yeah… I always made sure I had some Idea Channel, VSauce, and Veritasium on tap whenever possible. The latter is the only one that really still does it’s thing… and even that’s getting a little sus these days with Derek promoting general “ai” usage. :/
I understand that the letter G can make that sound. I am still saying, however, that the overwhelming vast majority of people pronounce it “gif” as in gift, and not “jiff” as in we’re not calling it that. stomp your feet as you will, it’s not gonna change anything.
No the overwhelming majority of kids think its pronounced that way. The majority of us who were around when it was written know how its pronounced. How do we know? We know because the guy who wrote it told us.
I was around before gifs even existed. No one I knew ever pronounced it jif. It was always like gift. In fact, I never even heard any question of how it was pronounced well into the use of gifs.
I was around before they existed as well. I remember reading a article about the new format and dialing into CompuServe in 1988 and downloading the first compiler and decoders for it. I remember how the article specifically showed the pronunciation. I know I say it correctly as the author and unisys intended. I remember when unisys was butthurt in 94 and tried to charge the whole world wide web for it and how that failed. I remember it all so it doesn’t matter if you or anyone else got it wrong.
I first heard it in pronounced “jif” from a guy in my college dorm in the mid 90s. I’ve just pronounced it that way every since. Is it there a generation gap in how it’s pronounced? I do catch some flak from my kids about how I pronounce it.
Sometime around 2010 was the first time I encountered someone who was foaming at the mouth certain about how I was saying it wrong. Considering by that time I had know about the file format for twenty years I dismissed their error. Its really funny watching all these people making fools out of themselves in defense of getting it wrong. The very first article I read about the format specifically showed the pronunciation. All in all I think its stupid how they will not or can not accept they got it wrong. Instead they call me a boomer or make some lame argument that the author and the company that came up with it. The company that owned it don’t get to decide what to call it. I dive in every time this comes up as its entertaining watching all these ‘fetuses’ get it wrong.
The guy who first wrote “eiland” spelled it as such. Then some idiot put an ‘s’ on it as a stylistic choice to latinize a word that has no Latin root. Now if you spell it any way other than “island” you are wrong because that is the way to word is used and understood.
Or, to put it another way, if you want to insist language is set in stone let me translate for you:
Se mann þe ǣrest wrāt “eiland,” swā hine stæfode. Þā sum dysig mann an ‘s’ onlēde swā stīlcræft, tō Lǣden sprǣce þæt word þe næfþ nān Lǣden rōt. Nū gif þū hine stæfian on ǣnige wīsan būtan “island,” þū bist wōh, forþām þæt is sēo wīs þe þæt word is gebrocen and understonden.
Se mann þe ǣrest wrāt “eiland,” swā hine stæfode. Þā sum dysig mann an ‘s’ onlēde swā stīlcræft, tō Lǣden sprǣce þæt word þe næfþ nān Lǣden rōt. Nū gif þū hine stæfian on ǣnige wīsan būtan “island,” þū bist wōh, forþām þæt is sēo wīs þe þæt word is gebrocen and understonden.
See, if that person that insists on using thorns in all their comments really committed like this, I think they’d get less flak, and more buy-in.
this is like the dude who invented GIF thinking everyone was going to call it “jiff”. it ain’t happening, broski.
The G stands for Jraphics
jay-pheg
It’s pronounced “emm-preg.”
Am I… Mpegante? Mpegananat?
Thank you, I needed this comment.
Rough day.
MPEG?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpreg
Given the context, I especially appreciate the first line in that article.
To be fair, though, I only know of this because of Game Grumps and their strange, fleeting obsessions.
It’s pronounced gay-peg /jk
It’s a hard sound, guh-pegg.
Personally, I usually default to png/poonj.
jay pee gee
The format was originally designed to interchange animated palettised depictions of giraffes, so Giraffic Interchange Format made sense. They just changed the acronym when they realised that by storing different colours in the palette, you could depict things other than giraffes.
So… where are these originals?
Yeah, just like the U stands for oonderwater in SCUBA, or the P stands for potographics in JPG!
That or Giraffe Interchange Format
This should be part of ISO
Welcome to… Jraphic Park!
No, it stands for Jira.
So, out of curiosity, how would you pronounce CHiPs?
say the letters individually. Then do it again faster. Then again faster still. Once it becomes a single syllable instead of three, then you will have arrived at the correct pronunciation.
I dare you to try this with every other acronym
Hahaha was my instant plan after reading the comment
ADHS people 🙌🏻
why?
Because it will show you the error with your argument: Your approach to pronouncing acronyms is likely not consistent with the method you’re describing here.
I’m not applying my argument to other acronyms though, I’m applying it to the .gif file extension.
Bruh
what?
I have always pronounced git as get (mostly because of accent) bit I watched a video the other day, and they pronounced it as Jit and my whole world fell apart. Was I pronouncing it wrong? Are they dumb? Was this secretly a gif jiff issue?
I have to deal with rej-ex (regex) and red-diss (Redis) at work a lot.
The privilege in living in a normally German talking country is that we don’t have the gif and regex problem
How’s Redis pronounced?
I say ree-diss because it’s redis as in remote dictionary server.
It’s pronounced gif
And this is why Sonic and Shadow never sit down together for thanksgiving
https://youtu.be/bmqy-Sp0txY
ZHAIF 4 LAIF!
:)
I miss Idea Channel a lot.
Yeah… I always made sure I had some Idea Channel, VSauce, and Veritasium on tap whenever possible. The latter is the only one that really still does it’s thing… and even that’s getting a little sus these days with Derek promoting general “ai” usage. :/
What about HiFi though? The Fi comes from fidelity, yet it’s pronounced like the fi in finite.
English is weird
It’s obviously pronounced “jif” just like giraffe.
It is called jiff tho?
yes, the J comes from Jraphics
Giraffes in shambles
alright start saying jfeg
jpej
To be fair once you make a word from an acronym, it doesn’t really matter what the pronunciation of the individual words was.
Jif is a peanut butter brand
Mmm, creamy
I’ll never have to buy toilet paper again!
Edit: Also, I like the taste of citrus so that’s nice too!
not any more than gnome is called guh-nome.
That’s why you had to spell it wrong in order to communicate that.
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Except of course we did then and we do now. Too bad none of you ever looked at how G can be pronounced.
I understand that the letter G can make that sound. I am still saying, however, that the overwhelming vast majority of people pronounce it “gif” as in gift, and not “jiff” as in we’re not calling it that. stomp your feet as you will, it’s not gonna change anything.
No the overwhelming majority of kids think its pronounced that way. The majority of us who were around when it was written know how its pronounced. How do we know? We know because the guy who wrote it told us.
I was around before gifs even existed. No one I knew ever pronounced it jif. It was always like gift. In fact, I never even heard any question of how it was pronounced well into the use of gifs.
I was around before they existed as well. I remember reading a article about the new format and dialing into CompuServe in 1988 and downloading the first compiler and decoders for it. I remember how the article specifically showed the pronunciation. I know I say it correctly as the author and unisys intended. I remember when unisys was butthurt in 94 and tried to charge the whole world wide web for it and how that failed. I remember it all so it doesn’t matter if you or anyone else got it wrong.
I didn’t.
I first heard it in pronounced “jif” from a guy in my college dorm in the mid 90s. I’ve just pronounced it that way every since. Is it there a generation gap in how it’s pronounced? I do catch some flak from my kids about how I pronounce it.
Sometime around 2010 was the first time I encountered someone who was foaming at the mouth certain about how I was saying it wrong. Considering by that time I had know about the file format for twenty years I dismissed their error. Its really funny watching all these people making fools out of themselves in defense of getting it wrong. The very first article I read about the format specifically showed the pronunciation. All in all I think its stupid how they will not or can not accept they got it wrong. Instead they call me a boomer or make some lame argument that the author and the company that came up with it. The company that owned it don’t get to decide what to call it. I dive in every time this comes up as its entertaining watching all these ‘fetuses’ get it wrong.
And here you are. The circle is complete.
The guy who first wrote “eiland” spelled it as such. Then some idiot put an ‘s’ on it as a stylistic choice to latinize a word that has no Latin root. Now if you spell it any way other than “island” you are wrong because that is the way to word is used and understood.
Or, to put it another way, if you want to insist language is set in stone let me translate for you:
Se mann þe ǣrest wrāt “eiland,” swā hine stæfode. Þā sum dysig mann an ‘s’ onlēde swā stīlcræft, tō Lǣden sprǣce þæt word þe næfþ nān Lǣden rōt. Nū gif þū hine stæfian on ǣnige wīsan būtan “island,” þū bist wōh, forþām þæt is sēo wīs þe þæt word is gebrocen and understonden.
See, if that person that insists on using thorns in all their comments really committed like this, I think they’d get less flak, and more buy-in.
The other guy told me it’s called X, but I still pronounce it Twitter.
Thank you for that pointless attempt at comparison. They never changed the name of gif nor the pronunciation of it.
Mf, if you pronounce BMW as bee em double-you…
Yup, I’m right about you.
Nice bail
Yeah ok boomer 😂
Okay Fetus but
Nope, try again.