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mugurumakensei
Member
It's soft g guys. The creator of the format settled this.
Only people who use XnView would have this problem! We can't just go about changing things for the benefit of a small group.
Arkos
Nose how to spell and rede to
Yeah lol I took two semesters in college but the prof was a love able pushover so you only really learned as much as you wanted to. And I took it as a filler course.
But I still did learn a lot. Hoping I'll follow up on it some day, really cool language, not as hard to understand for a Roman alphabet user as some might think
Actually, some people theorize that hard G is in fact formal arabic depending on the word. That's where the dialects come from.
Other than that yes you are correct.
As far as reading it, maybe, but it's completely different than any of the latin/germanic languages.
If this mattered we'd still be using "Rotisserie Baseball".
Well, there are examples of soft g. Gigawatt, for example, the soft g was the original correct pronunciation. You have words like giant and gigantic, which the root for gigawatt (giga) comes from. The you got gym, gem, gist, giraffe, ginger, gyro, gypsy, geo-, gentle, generate, general, germ.
That said, hard g sounds better with .gif imo.
Gibbon, Gibson, Giddy, Gift, Giga (unless you're Doc Brown), Gilbert, Gimp, Girl, Give, Gizmo, etc...
Gift is the important one because it's just a t sound away from GIF.
fierrotlepou
Member
The only thing that annoyed me was the low quality cams everyone seems to have. DAMN
Oh and Blamespace actually seems like a cool guy IRL, who'd have thought?
Oh and Blamespace actually seems like a cool guy IRL, who'd have thought?
Hot Coldman
Banned
"changing"
Gintoki313
Banned
I like the people posting giraffe's too prove their point on the g and j argument lol.
Anyways I always pronounced gif as jif and am corrected by friends all the time. I pronounce neogaf as gaf though. I'm weird and kinda go both ways with the whole g and j thing. Personally I just see it as a way of talking and it doesn't matter how you say it. It's just the way people speak and I can't change that.
Anyways I always pronounced gif as jif and am corrected by friends all the time. I pronounce neogaf as gaf though. I'm weird and kinda go both ways with the whole g and j thing. Personally I just see it as a way of talking and it doesn't matter how you say it. It's just the way people speak and I can't change that.
Neogaf not Neojaf btw 
plagiarize
Banned
You take that back. You will make my Nokia 928 sad.
But giga (soft g) was correct and people changed it to a hard g. Isn't that a similar case to gif?
"Dot gif." problem solved?
Does that mean using a soft G in giga is incorrect now?
AlberichMX
Member
But the "J" in Jorge is pronounced like the "H" in home. In fact the first syllable in Jorge, "Jor" is pronounced like "hor" in the word horn. Btw Hard G for gif!!!
More food for thought. All patents related to GIF worldwide have expired, and here's the trademark:
Nobody owns it anymore!
Nobody owns it anymore!
Technically, no, but you do sound funny.
Damnit I was hoping no one was paying attention lol.
Arkos
Nose how to spell and rede to
Oh yeah, not saying its easy, just that it isn't as different as say Mandarin or Russian.
Why exactly do you say it's completely different? I felt like the basic syntax still made sense to me as an English speaker
Edit:
This is a discussion (war) that is long overdue.
I do feel bad the thread seems to have been derailed, although it also seems to have moderators' tacit approval
Haunted
Member
:lol
Shadow2222
Member
There is nothing wrong with "JIF." Grammar is just weird like that.
In English we have words that mean different things and are pronounced differently ("Please excuse me while I think of an excuse."), words that get pronounced completely different due to one or two letters (through, rough), and many other acronyms that are technically pronounced incorrect according to you guys.
NeoGAF - Neo Gaming Ahge Forums
GUI - Graphics Oozer Eenterface
3D - Three Deemensional
Necco - New Ehngland Confectionery Cowempany
In English we have words that mean different things and are pronounced differently ("Please excuse me while I think of an excuse."), words that get pronounced completely different due to one or two letters (through, rough), and many other acronyms that are technically pronounced incorrect according to you guys.
NeoGAF - Neo Gaming Ahge Forums
GUI - Graphics Oozer Eenterface
3D - Three Deemensional
Necco - New Ehngland Confectionery Cowempany
No it's not. The people who made NeoGAF intended for it to be pronounced with a hard g. The person who made .gif intended for it to be pronounced with a soft g.
Are you gonna pronounce Google like Joogle now because you just want to? lol. I know google was actually a word before the site existed but they still intended for the site to be pronounced with a hard g when they made it.
This video was pretty great. Not nearly as cringe-worthy as I was expecting.
Ciastek3214
Junior Member
GT - JennyTrailers
Actually, nothing was intended at all! The closeness with "Gaffer" kind of took care of things.
Just like the closeness with "Gift".
Yeah exactly, because of "Gaffer", because of "Gaming Age Forums".
Also, the GT comments section is full of pathetic comments. Lol.
Why are you agreeing with me?
iNvid02
Member
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DreadPirateRoberts
Member
Maybe he doesn't know it was a word before NeoGAF?
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Because it sounds like it?
The whole point is that people pronounce it their own way and when they hear the other pronunciation aloud it's weird to them. If I pronounce it with a hard G and hear someone say it with a soft G it sounds like the fucking peanut butter to me.
This is the last time I'm posting this!!!!!!!!!!
According to the rules of English the letter G followed by an i, e, or y is pronounced "J". While there are many exceptions the secondary rule is that words of Latin/Greek origin usually follow the rule while those of Germanic origin do not. "Gif" is an acronym composed of three Latin/Greek words. It is too is arguably of Latin/Greek origin.
Since the word "gif" is spelled "gi", and since it is or Latin/Greek origin it is most appropriately pronounced "jif".
People keep saying it sounds like "gift", but gift is of Germanic origin not Latin.
The only argument that makes sense at to why is should be pronounced with a hard G is simply because "that's how it's pronounced". That's certainly a compelling argument. But any attempt to use the rules of English pronunciation or comparing it with other words are simply wrong. According to the rules of English pronunciation it undoubtedly should be pronounced with a soft G. It's an exception (which is perfectly valid) that it is not.
According to the rules of English the letter G followed by an i, e, or y is pronounced "J". While there are many exceptions the secondary rule is that words of Latin/Greek origin usually follow the rule while those of Germanic origin do not. "Gif" is an acronym composed of three Latin/Greek words. It is too is arguably of Latin/Greek origin.
Since the word "gif" is spelled "gi", and since it is or Latin/Greek origin it is most appropriately pronounced "jif".
People keep saying it sounds like "gift", but gift is of Germanic origin not Latin.
The only argument that makes sense at to why is should be pronounced with a hard G is simply because "that's how it's pronounced". That's certainly a compelling argument. But any attempt to use the rules of English pronunciation or comparing it with other words are simply wrong. According to the rules of English pronunciation it undoubtedly should be pronounced with a soft G. It's an exception (which is perfectly valid) that it is not.
blame space
Banned
do you guys have any controversial opinions about viacom media?
This is where your logic falls apart. The acronym is of American origin, and, more importantly, its use as a one-syllable word began in America as well.
Also, "change" isn't from latin or greek. It just has the prefix because English speakers use latin/greek to sound smart.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Oh yeah?! well my counter arjument is that it isn't a word it's an acronym and you should be able to pronounce it how ever you want.
plagiarize
Banned
Jet out of here with this nonsense.
TV Land went down the drain years ago.
CambriaRising
Member
I feel like the people who say "Jiff" just recently found out that they were pronouncing it wrong and were embarrassed so they are trying to cover it up.
It's a hard G.
It's a hard G.
Haunted
Member
I certainly don't know of anyone who pronounced it correctly before and is now switching to saying jif because the creator said so.
Chill jenji
The people who invented something had an intended pronunciation for the word and that is the correct way to say it.
In NeoGAF's case, it's pronounced with a hard g. They intended it to be that way because of "Gaming Age Forums" and "Gafers".
In .gif's case, it's pronounced with a soft g, because the creator intended it to be that way, regardless of any other reason.
The creator's intentional pronunciation is always the trump.
"Jif" is the correct way, even though I prefer "gif".
If you name your daughter Janette and you say the last "e" is silent and people insist that the last "e" is pronounced, it doesn't matter what other people think, you named her, you get to say how it's pronounced.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I'd be kinda sad if MTV went away.
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