wilder (she/her)Aug 24, 2025

rule

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/30800844

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Show threadhOrniAug 24, 2025
The “G” stands for “Graphics”. Why would anybody pronounce it “jif”?
Show threadpanatheaAug 24, 2025

The P in JPEG stands for photographic so I guess we shall pronounce it “jayfeg” based on that logic.

/s

Descriptive linguistic opinion: both the hard and soft G pronunciations are used, with the hard G being more common, but I like the soft G and use it myself.

Show threadpuppycat (she/her)Aug 24, 2025
id vibe with jayfeg if it meant everyone pronounces gif correctly
Show threadcurbstickleAug 24, 2025
Steve Wilhite (engineering lead on the team that created GIF) said the soft g is the right pronunciation.
Show threadNorah (pup/it/she)Aug 24, 2025
You know I daresay that basically your exact comment is what OOP was responding too on reddit.
Show threadcurbstickle

Wouldn’t doubt it.

Some folks get unreasonably mad about what they consider “right”.

Aug 24, 2025 at 5:39pmWeb
Show threadNorah (pup/it/she)Aug 24, 2025
That’s, exactly what it sounded like you were doing…
Show threadcurbstickleAug 24, 2025

I’m pointing to the lead of the team that created it. They get to name it, not me.

I’m also not oddly mad about it like the person replying to me with lots of exclamation points, the user in OPs image, or the person using their alt that has only been used to downvote people they are in conversations with for the past few months.

All I said was the people responsible for it say its a soft g, not a hard g.

Show threadCileTheSaneAug 25, 2025

or the person using their alt that has only been used to downvote people they are in conversations with for the past few months.

Wow. You did a lot of research into who has been downvoting you for someone who isn’t mad about this…

Show threadcurbstickleAug 25, 2025
Not really, no, I’m playing with the client communication so I can contribute updates, so ive been using a rather fugly web interface I made. Up/downvote activity is visible in that.
Show threadCileTheSaneAug 25, 2025
Sure, there’s “I can see downvote information” and then there’s “I took the effort to check the history of this person who downvoted me and go into the context thread for those downvotes in order to recgonize this other user name being common in them… And I went back far enough to see this trend for months.”
Show threadcurbstickleAug 25, 2025

When it repeats on certain conversations it becomes a bit obvious, and full history of a user is visible with a single click.

Its really not the effort you think it is.