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Graphics Interchange Format - Hard G or Soft G?
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Author:  RangerDave [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:46 am ]
Post subject:  Graphics Interchange Format - Hard G or Soft G?
And do you find it odd and/or annoying when people say it the other way?

*Edit: Changed to thread title to avoid biasing the poll.
Author:  FarSky [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:49 am ]
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I've never met anyone who said "jiff," but I guess it would annoy me to hear it.
Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:04 am ]
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I find your title prejudicial.
Author:  Hopwin [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:16 am ]
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Just as long as it isn't crunchy then I have no preference.
Author:  RangerDave [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:17 am ]
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Heh, good point, Kaffis. Changed it now.
Author:  Corolinth [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:39 am ]
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Hard g. Anything else is grounds for being burned at the stake.
Author:  Vladimirr [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:09 pm ]
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Soft G (also known as the right way).

I remember having this discussion on CompuServe in the early 90s. ;)
Author:  Lenas [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Graphics Interchange Format - Hard G or Soft G?
Hard G, because no real G is soft. Gnomesay'n?
Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:34 pm ]
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Soft. Because I like peanut butter. It doesn't *annoy* me when other people say differently, but it often whizzes right by me, and I have to mentally back up and figure out what they're saying.
Author:  Corolinth [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:43 pm ]
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It's not my fault a bunch of computer programmers couldn't figure out how to pronounce their own file extension. If we gotta go to war, we'll go to war, but like Lenas said, any soft g isn't a real g.
Author:  Müs [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:59 pm ]
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Like gift without the t.
Author:  Khross [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Graphics Interchange Format - Hard G or Soft G?
The velar "g" doesn't have a common english language homophone, which is likely the reason the affricate "g" was chosen. Likewise, because English is so context dependent, the easiest way to avoid spoken confusion is phonetic separation from "gift".
Author:  Darkroland [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:37 pm ]
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Hard g, but I could care less how others pronounce it (also bringing to mind the very, very few times I recall hearing Gif said out loud.)
Author:  Midgen [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:44 pm ]
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I've said it both ways, and could not care less how other people say it..

I voted soft G just to be contrarian
Author:  Leshani [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:53 pm ]
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I'm sorry maybe to many beers and I missed something, Is this about the G spot. Maybe Talya can interject soft or hard.
Author:  Rorinthas [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:56 pm ]
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Like the peanut butter.
Author:  Raell [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:08 pm ]
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Müs wrote:
Like gift without the t.



QFT
Author:  Mookhow [ Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:18 am ]
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I used to be hard but now I'm soft.
Author:  Raell [ Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:54 pm ]
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It happens to the best of men Mook, no worries. They make a pill for that now.
Author:  Numbuk [ Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Graphics Interchange Format - Hard G or Soft G?
I've known for a couple decades that the correct pronunciation is like the peanut butter. But I still say it like gift minus t.

I also said "gib" with a hard g when Quake used the term a lot. Even though I knew full well it was a soft g like in giblets.

Those that hear it and don't care, they just don't care. Those that do, well, I go out of my way to increase their annoyance levels because they are getting annoyed at something trivial and pointless.

It's like continuing to call a form of animation "japanimation" around someone who flies of the handle over the term. (When they bring up the racist card, I make a point to put the emphasis on non racist terms, "japan...imation" and it just infuriates them more. Hilarious to see.).

Anyway, correct pronunciations of acronyms using English logic flies out the window because they are not English words. The pronunciation is determined by the creator. And arguments of "Graphics, what the G stands for, is a hard g" also fly out the window as well. Unless you want to change how you pronounce SCSI or ISA.
Author:  Müs [ Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:59 pm ]
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Skuzzy and Eye Ess A
Author:  Numbuk [ Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Graphics Interchange Format - Hard G or Soft G?
Scuzzy is the standard, but I believe the other is Eye-suh."
Author:  Stathol [ Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:09 am ]
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I've never heard anyone say eye-suh, but then again, I always thought PNG was just pee-en-gee until this thread. I've known about the official pronunciation of GIF since the Compuserve days, so it's always been "jiff" to me. Apparently I'm in a minority, because I never hear anyone say it the other way. I guess it just doesn't come up in conversation much to begin with.
Author:  FarSky [ Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:16 am ]
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pee-en-gee
gift(-t)
jay-peg
scuzzy
pee-ess-dee
a-eye
em-peg
damage
ee-ex-ee
ee-pub
moby
Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Graphics Interchange Format - Hard G or Soft G?
Stathol wrote:
I always thought PNG was just pee-en-gee until this thread.

Wait, it's not?
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