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Your choice of screen shot makes it look like a statement. Fortunately, you made the right choice.
The fact that the cursor points at the correct pronunciation is purely by accident.
'g' in 'gin'
If you guys won't get along we'll have to compromise and go with the g in 'rough'
I prefer the g in 'though' but not the g in 'tough'
So, if?
Gesus!
It's a nice chord
what if its actually pronounced with the dutch g?
Is it the one where you pretend to deepthroat a frikandel?
Pretend?
G as in gif
Thats pretty cool, thanks. I am having a hard time translating phonetic notation into sunds in my head :D
It’s a little more difficult, but if you click on the pronunciation link it gives you tables for all the sounds too.
I’ve been using this for years to learn how to pronounce things!
Are you trying to start a fight?
Fun fact: in old English, /j/ (the sound in Yes) was written using a g (often written as ġ in modern old English transcriptions)
Make of that what you will
It's pronounced yiff, because its the most popular format for furry porn.
Every day we stray further from Jod
Uh, excuse me, "GOD" is actually an acronym for "Great Omniscient Deity", so it's actually pronounced /'paɪnæpl/.
I can't read IPA, but choose to believe that's pronounced 'pineapple'
If I die and meet JOD I'm gonna punch someone.
Jo fuck yourself, you knew what you were doing with your example. Now I'm irrationally angry at half the people in this thread.
Man, honestly. I thought using GIF as an example would be a funny way to illustrate this genuinely cool feature. I expected some craziness but not at this level. People comment with passion, holy hell.
I just thought throwing gasoline on the fire would make it become "wet fire", I had no idea what I was doing!
Jraphical Interchange Format
And furthermore... pineapple belongs on PIZZA!
Another gift from Wikipedia.
Don't you mean a jift?
This was only a controversy because GIFs were falling out of favour and the format's creator decided to stir up shit.
Reminds me of the stuff with Harry Potter. "Oh wait Hermione is Black, Dumbledore is gay, oh and trans women aren't real women." It's just to get people talking about something that has run its course... and oh look, a new Harry Potter series coming to HBO. Because it works.
The actual pronunciation of GIF doesn't matter. We say GIF with a hard G because the G stands for Graphics and that has a hard G. Some say it with a soft G because that makes it sound like Jif and they like peanut butter...? I guess? I doubt it's because someone said that's how it was meant to be pronounced. Honestly I think Jif sounds better, but that doesn't mean it's right. I prefer the English pronunciation of garage (rhymes with carriage) to the American (rhymes with barrage) but in the States I pronounce it the American way because I want to be understood... not because it sounds better. I could give a fuck how something sounds; language is about communication. And if you're saying "Jif," we still know what you mean, but we think less of you for either not knowing better, or are just pedantic — exactly how I expect to be received if I pronounce "garage" like I think it's meant to be said.
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