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[-] armus@startrek.website 25 points 2 years ago
[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago
[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

It's not Data, the correct pronunciation is Data.

[-] NessD@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Gif as in gift. Anything else is nonsense!

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago

The girl's gig to give the gift of gifs

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[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Ever seen a geriatric geologist named George at the gym? How about a giant ginger giraffe drunk on gin. What about a genderless genealogist cutting generic gems?

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[-] digger@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

The one on the left is pronounced GIF and the one on the right is pronounced GIF.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 11 points 2 years ago

Actually, I'm pretty sure you have them flipped

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

You're both wrong, the G is silent.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

One is my name, the other is not.

[-] teft@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago

Graphics Interchange Format. Hard G.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago

I use a hard G but this is a bad argument. I'll just link to this great list of counterexamples:

https://lemmy.world/comment/2216080

[-] r2vq@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

How do you pronounce JPEG?

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[-] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Do you pronounce origin like the state?

Do you you also say "nay-say" when reading NASA, lol, that logic is flawed.

I'd like to remind everyone that the rules for words amd pronunciation were documented AFTER most words, which is why it's so inconsistent and arbitrary

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[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

Always pronounce it "GIF."

Never "JIF."

Only Lore does that.

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago
[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 10 points 2 years ago

Uhm achtckyally it's GIF

[-] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Data definitely says the hard g. His interests are in being more human. Not pedantically arguing about the way the creator says things in an attempt to upend the majority. The latter is definitely Lore's jam, though

Be more like Data.

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Way to start another flame war Xusontha! Or is it Zusontha?

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 8 points 2 years ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

...It's secretly a Greek letter chi, isn't it?

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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago
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[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 6 points 2 years ago

It really hits every spot on the spectrum from minion to stripper dances lol

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[-] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

What the hell is a gigawatt?

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Pronounced "jijawatt":
gigawatts

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

It all depends if you pronounce it
Graphics interchange format
Or
Jraphics interchange format

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago
[-] IzzyData@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago
[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Lore: It's pronounced GIF... because of the implication.

[-] macabrett@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I pronounce it like gin but I don't really care how someone else pronounces it.

[-] Downcount@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I don't care as long as you don't say Jetpack to JPG like my old collegue used to say.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 5 points 2 years ago

Whut

That's an actual crime

Do you pronounce origin like the state?

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