• Nyla Smokeyface
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    1311 months ago

    I was devastated to learn the creators intended it to be pronounced “jif” like the peanut butter brand

    • Dandroid
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      011 months ago

      I say dʒɪf, but the way the person who invented it wants you to say it is a really dumb basis for how something is pronounced, imo.

    • @Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca
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      011 months ago

      Me too. I feel like no one pronounced it jif before they said that, and now we have to have an eternal debate over it

      • snowe
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        411 months ago

        That’s literally how every programmer pronounced it before it became an Internet sensation. It had a marketing campaign to “sell” the format because that’s how new standards were created initially. They explicitly chose to name it after the peanut butter because it allowed them to give it a catchy phrase to sell it even better “choosy developers choose gif”.

        • LEX
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          111 months ago

          You mean steal a catchy phrase lol.