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[–] Surp@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Say gift. Now what you're going to do next is leave out the T but enunciate the gif part the same way. Fuck you jif people!

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll tell the agile fragile fugitive gin-drinking giraffes eating ginger ginseng to imagine gingerly using their digits to engineer a geological survey of the gist of your comment. They ate too much gingerbread and now have gingivitis, so the margins of those attracted to religion aren't as rigid as the original origins of those of that region and we have to remain vigilant lest magic supersede logic, which of course would be terrible for legislation of the legions.

[–] Wav_function@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That was beautiful

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

That's how you do it, boys and jirls

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Great.
However none of those have the g-i-f sequence and have the j sound.
They do have g-i-t sequences. So it suggests that the f makes the g pronounced like a g not a j.
Intact, you could use examples like "digit" to argue the versioning software should be pronounced jit.

[–] misophist@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But git is literally a word (and it's pronounced with a hard G).

[–] towerful@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

https://initialcommit.com/blog/How-Did-Git-Get-Its-Name

Yeh, it's obviously a nonsense argument.
Linus even suggested 2 backronyms for it, none of which have the j sound.
And there is precedence for git being pronounced git not jit.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

However none of those have the g-i-f sequence and have the j sound.

So the criteria for pronunciation is other words that have the exact same letters? What does that mean for the pronunciation of "women"?

[–] towerful@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Women Vs world? Women Vs Woo? Women Vs work? Women Vs wonder?

Cause the "wom" sequence would be...
Women Vs Womb?
Women Vs Wombat?

The arguement is obviously nonsense.
It's going into syntax of words to get pronunciation, instead the acronym/name.
Which is funny, because that's exactly what's happening in the gif/jif argument.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure what you're trying to say, but not a single one of those words pronounce the "wo" like it is in "women."

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems to be closest to the i in fish -- hence the fun alternate spelling of photi

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ghoti is better (using the "gh" in "enough"), and yep.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Womb and women are pronounced the same (well, except the ending).
Unless it's a local dialect thing where "women" is pronounced "wimin"?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody I've ever heard pronounces it "woo-min", only "wimmin." Definitely not a local dialect.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, if you heard me, I pronounce "women" like "womb".
Maybe I have the local dialect.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Are you from PNW? I think I remember a video from reddit where someone said woo-min and a commenter said they're from there and say it like that.

[–] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Say gigantic. Now what you're going to do next is stop with your ANTICs and enunciate the gig the same way.

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Gin like Gin and Tonic. Use Gin instead next time. Don't get me wrong I will forever call it gif(t) however to help you with your position using a 3 letter word may help.

You may be explaining how superficial the Gift argument is by making it a much longer thing to take off but figured if you ever use it in a real way or argument you may want this one in your back pocket as well.

[–] Kyrinar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm firmly in the hard-g crew, but I respect what you did here

[–] uncreativechap@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ironic since gig is already a word and everyone agrees it's pronounced the other way.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole thing is funny when you look at the full phrase too. Graphical Interchange Format -- it's got both a hard g and a soft g. You could call a gif an image. You could also call it a graphic.

At the end of the day, there really isn't an answer, and there never will be. It's a fun debate to fuck around with though

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a G sound and there is a J sound.

There is no need to invent a distinction between "hard" and "soft" G. A "soft G" is just a J.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

G can make a hard G sound or a soft G sound, the soft G is identical to J.

It's still a soft G sound though, because the letter is G.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

No, it's just a G that is making a J sound.