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Nak hak
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Posted - 2013.05.22 16:59:00 -
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Gif's inventor says ignore dictionaries and say 'Jif'
Vote: "J" or "G."
It's about freedom.
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1799
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Posted - 2013.05.22 17:01:00 -
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Yo, "G!" How's it hanging?
(Yes. I'm white and nerdy)
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
7353
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Posted - 2013.05.22 17:33:00 -
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"Giff".
Might be because of British English, but if it was pronounced as OP indicates, it would be "Jhiff" to me.
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Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
5038
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Posted - 2013.05.22 17:38:00 -
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If you wanted other people to pronounce your invented word with a 'J', write the damn thing with a 'J'. |
Eurydia Vespasian
Nova Insula Mining and Industrial
2768
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Posted - 2013.05.22 17:45:00 -
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jif is for peanut butter.
gif is for internet pics. |
Gary Goat
XDC-UK
42
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Posted - 2013.05.22 18:00:00 -
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Won't be long till they change it to cif at this rate |
jason hill
The Riot Formation
Unclaimed.
282
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Posted - 2013.05.22 18:45:00 -
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its a Giff..allways has been ..and always will be ..end of  |
Socks the Fox
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
5
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Posted - 2013.05.22 19:40:00 -
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I pronounce it "ping."
'Cause PNG's better, especially if your browser's smart enough to support APNG (I'm not sure the EVE browser does since it's such an outdated PoS).
Though I pronounce the obsolete format "gif" as in "gift." |
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
4017
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Posted - 2013.05.22 19:57:00 -
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I will not desmerch the name of my peanut butter by calling what people link in local 'Jiffs'.
Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings? |
Eli Green
The Arrow Project
659
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:36:00 -
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Go "G" or go home!
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
1741
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Posted - 2013.05.24 05:06:00 -
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The good news for pretty much all Romanians is that we've been accidentally pronouncing all as intended.
:P
In Romanian, there are only a few things that are pronounced differently from how it's written, and the sequences "gi"/"ge" and "ci"/"ce" are the most commonly encountered oddiies (pronounced "j-" and respectively, somewhat similar to the "c-" in "chair").
Side-note, the ones pronounced as you'd normally expect (for a (mostly) "spell as it sounds and read as it's written" language) instead of gi/ge/ci/ce are actually ghi/ghe/chi/che.
So, basically, we've been calling "gif" a "jif", and if you wanted it to be called "gif" you would have had to write it "ghif".
...
This concludes today's section of "why English spellings generally sucks but Romanian spelling is still only ok not great".
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Hrothgar Nilsson
Black Guards
322
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Posted - 2013.05.24 07:20:00 -
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I've always pronounced it JIF. Never gave it any thought, and I wasn't really aware anybody pronounced it any differently.
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Graygor
1kB Realty
1kB Galactic
31014
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Posted - 2013.05.24 10:50:00 -
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I call it "Oh god not another god damn stupid cat video" file. But thats just me.
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Indahmawar Fazmarai
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Posted - 2013.05.25 20:19:00 -
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Akita T wrote:The good news for pretty much all Romanians is that we've been accidentally pronouncing all as intended.
:P
In Romanian, there are only a few things that are pronounced differently from how it's written, and the sequences "gi"/"ge" and "ci"/"ce" are the most commonly encountered oddiies (pronounced "j-" and respectively, somewhat similar to the "c-" in "chair").
Side-note, the ones pronounced as you'd normally expect (for a (mostly) "spell as it sounds and read as it's written" language) instead of gi/ge/ci/ce are actually ghi/ghe/chi/che.
So, basically, we've been calling "gif" a "jif", and if you wanted it to be called "gif" you would have had to write it "ghif".
...
This concludes today's section of "why English spellings generally sucks but Romanian spelling is still only ok not great".
In Spanish they're JIF as for the general rule concerning ge/gi, they're pronounced the same as je/ji in Spanish.
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Erika Hamasaki
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
17
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Posted - 2013.05.25 20:33:00 -
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I'm in the G camp too... Jif is a cleaning product here... |
stoicfaux
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Posted - 2013.05.25 21:02:00 -
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Giff, mother [vernacular for fornication], do you speak it?
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Aerethir El-Kharisti
304
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Posted - 2013.05.26 19:55:00 -
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I'll vote "Giff", because Jiff is too close to Yiff for my taste.
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Noriko Satomi
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
182
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Posted - 2013.05.27 05:09:00 -
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It's pronounced with an English "J" sound. Any other way is wrong. Most of us didn't even have to have CompuServe accounts back in the day to know how to pronounce it. Graphic Interchange Format let you download uncompressed pics quickly, hence the pronunciation.
Deal with it.  |
Noriko Satomi
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
182
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Posted - 2013.05.27 05:12:00 -
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Destination SkillQueue wrote:If you wanted other people to pronounce your invented word with a 'J', write the damn thing with a 'J'.
I suppose the word "genius" is pronounced with a hard "G". 
You should probably also tell all those giraffes that they stuck their necks out one time too many.
Let us now proceed to debate the pronunciation of "gyro" (the delicious food, not the shorthand for gyroscope). |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
1741
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Posted - 2013.05.27 07:49:00 -
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Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:In Spanish they're JIF as for the general rule concerning ge/gi, they're pronounced the same as je/ji in Spanish.
No huge surprise there, since both Spanish and Romanian are mostly derived from Latin 
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Astenion
Eternal Profiteers
Eternal Syndicate
271
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Posted - 2013.05.27 15:20:00 -
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Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:I will not desmerch the name of my peanut butter by calling what people link in local 'Jiffs'.
*besmirch*
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Daimon Kaiera
Kraken.
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Posted - 2013.05.27 18:46:00 -
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I pronounce it both ways.
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Digi Eristoff
Pavillon Rouge
3
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Posted - 2013.05.27 19:31:00 -
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I allways pronounced it " Jif " .. french way
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
11085
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Posted - 2013.05.28 08:36:00 -
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Daimon Kaiera wrote:I pronounce it both ways.
So, Jicurious?
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Alice Saki
Suddenly Spaced Out
Suddenly Spaceships.
57649
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Posted - 2013.05.28 08:44:00 -
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Don't Care ^_^
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
11085
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Posted - 2013.05.28 08:44:00 -
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Why not? 
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