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Hard G 4 lyfe.

haha, my nijja!

 

[AngelsDontBurn]

Pronouncing gif with a soft G is just going to make people think you're talking about peanut butter. It will confuse the masses!

 

[Ryuuga]

This thread only confirms one thing, GAF needs the ability to leave short text-to-speech soundbytes attached to posts.

Pronouncing gif with a soft G is just going to make people think you're talking about peanut butter. It will confuse the masses!

I speak on behalf of Canada and involving peanut butter in the topic of pronunciation would make us much more confused.

Spoiler

It's no longer sold here

 

[legacyzero]

Pronouncing gif with a soft G is just going to make people think you're talking about peanut butter. It will confuse the masses!

 

[Hitokage]

Ryuuga: You mean JAF.

 

[Sethos]

http://i.imgur.com/Um74r.gif

Looks like "JIF GAF"

 

[DaBoss]

:lol

 

[plagiarize]

I got subtitled? Life long ambition realized.

 

[Sethos]

I got subtitled? Life long ambition realized.

Haha that was you? I couldn't contain my laughter when I saw that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AgmUTTZ27k

 

[Arkos]

Ha! Read that new title and weep.

The Jif gif has no pity and feeds off of your puny complaint posts

 

[Baleoce]

OP title made me think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-LnP3uraDo

EDIT - I get the feeling there's a "thatsthejoke.jpeg" incoming xD

 

[plagiarize]

Haha that was you? I couldn't contain my laughter when I saw that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AgmUTTZ27k

I'm the one with the Max t-shirt, not the one lying on the grass. So, yeah probably that was me. I think I was the first one subtitled.

 

[Ryuuga]

Ryuuga: You mean JAF.

 

[Eyemus Lutt]

JPEG should be pronounced Jfeg
LASER should be lasser.
CD should be Kid
It's pronounced JIF people so get over it.

 

[CambriaRising]

This thread is so meta.

 

[bigboss370]

LOL that would be me.

lol awesome.

 

[Arkos]

JPEG should be pronounced Jfeg
LASER should be lasser.
CD should be Kid
It's pronounced JIF people so get over it.

Boom exactly, this guy gets it

 

[TGateKeeper]

Damn I am shocked by that vid. I didn't know there were so many older posters on gaf.

Spoiler

based on some of the post I assumed gaf user base was made up of 12 year olds.

 

[Hot Coldman]

JPEG should be pronounced Jfeg
LASER should be lasser.
CD should be Kid
It's pronounced JIF people so get over it.

In the GAF civil war, you'll be the first to die.

 

[ASIS]

what's the next closest actual word?

Gift.

So you expect me to believe that gift = hard g, but gif = soft g?

That's like saying Farm should be spelt with Ph because you make the same sound as pharmacy. Language is complex with a ton of hidden rules.

That's said, #teamhardG

 

[Y2Kev]

Wouldn't a hard G be "Jyuh"? Like Giraffe? I thought soft G is "Guh" like "gutter"?

I'm so confused.

 

[Arkos]

Finally someone fell into the trap!

Mister "dee-for-dang!-rrrr"

Edit ^ :

Wouldn't a hard G be "Jyuh"? Like Giraffe? I thought soft G is "Guh" like "gutter"?

I'm so confused.

Nah hard G is like "gun" and soft G is like "giraffe" or ".gif"

 

[Hitokage]

That's like saying Farm should be spelt with Ph because you make the same sound as pharmacy. Language is complex with a ton of hidden rules.

Nobody's talking about spelling here.

 

[Hot Coldman]

Wouldn't a hard G be "Jyuh"? Like Giraffe? I thought soft G is "Guh" like "gutter"?

I'm so confused.

Say "juh", and then say "guh". "Guh" should feel harsher to pronounce. Pretty sure "guh" is a hard G.

 

[DaBoss]

Say "juh", and then say "guh". "Guh" should feel harsher to pronounce.

Yea, but "juh" sounds more rought/hard than "guh".

 

[A Human Becoming]

I don't know what to believe anymore. I always said "JIF' but the Whitehouse changed my mind.

 

[Mista Koo]

Haha, personally I say G-U-I.

Yep, and G-I-F.

Also a lot of people around here call it "NewJAF" since that's how you'd write it in Arabic.

Wouldn't a hard G be "Jyuh"? Like Giraffe? I thought soft G is "Guh" like "gutter"?

I'm so confused.

Soft /dʒ/
Hard /g/

Let's start typing them this way.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

NeoGAF speaks about Gametrailers.

O M F G !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BWHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sooooooooo gooood lol hard here!

[edit] DOES PATCKER EVEN LIFT HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, COME AT ME BRO !!!! WHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHA OMG my sides

OMG @ MY PART, THANKS OBAMA !!!! OMG DIEING HERE FOLKS DIEING HERE !!!

 

[Haunted]

jif = jraphics interchange format?

 

[Hot Coldman]

Yea, but "juh" sounds more rought/hard than "guh".

OK then, LET'S CONSULT WIKIPEDIA

In English, the sound of soft ⟨g⟩ is /dʒ/ (as in George).

BOOM, change the title Y2Kev

 

[ASIS]

Nobody's talking about spelling here.

I know, we're talking about pronunciation. I'm just trying to make a point that language is more complex than looking at similar words and expect them to behave similarly.

 

[Arkos]

Yep, and G-I-F.

Also a lot of people around here call it "NewJAF" since that's how you'd write it in Arabic.

Interesting! Did not know that

Out of serious curiosity does the (forget the letter) J sounding letter correspond to how the Arabic for gaming is spelled?

 

[DaBoss]

OK then, LET'S CONSULT WIKIPEDIA

BOOM, change the title Y2Kev

Yea, I know that "juh" is soft G, but it sounds like it should be called hard G.

 

[Anustart]

This a thousand times!!!

So I take it you pronounce NeoGAF as NeoGAYF correct? Its Age not Ahgee!

 

[dk_]

jif = jraphics interchange format?

It's a hard g btw.

 

[Hitokage]

Also a lot of people around here call it "NewJAF" since that's how you'd write it in Arabic.

Hah, joke's on me.

 

[Karsticles]

GIF with a hard G always sounds like you're lazily trying to say "Gift".

"Did you open that gif'"?

 

[Ryuuga]

Yea, but "juh" sounds more rought/hard than "guh".

I think it's determined by severity of impact. If I was hit unexpectedly in both scenarios I'd let out a soft "juh" after being slapped, but a more impactful "guh" after getting a roundhouse.

 

[Paganmoon]

jif = jraphics interchange format?

Jif = Jeff's Image Format (I am not kidding)

http://filext.com/file-extension/JIF

 

[Hot Coldman]

holy shit :lol

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Chapstick outdid himself with that parody video.

 

[Hitokage]

Jif = Jeff's Image Format (I am not kidding)

http://filext.com/file-extension/JIF

Haha, there you have it.

GIF to remove ambiguity!

 

[Goldenmoney]

This isn't NeoJAF.......or is it?

 

[Htown]

Name one other word in the english language in which the syllable *gif* is pronounced with a soft g

 

[dose]

Whoever changed the thread title.... yeah right. it's short for for Graphics, so it's a hard G. Everyone I've worked with says It like that.
Edit: lol@ new thread title.

 

[plagiarize]

Haha, there you have it.

GIF to remove ambiguity!

And to replace it with ambiguity to something that is pronounced exactly the same way, rather than similarly. You Jif weirdos.

And it's gib too. With a hard G. Like Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees. And yes, I know it was coined by Romero and it's short for giblets, which is a soft G, but FUCK THAT. I told him he was wrong myself.

You know, through the internet. I'm cool like that.

 

[Mista Koo]

Interesting! Did not know that

Out of serious curiosity does the (forget the letter) J sounding letter correspond to how the Arabic for gaming is spelled?

Not at all, not even related.

Fun fact: There isn't a hard g in formal Arabic. People would write Google/gamers using either Qāf (voiceless uvular stop) or Gīm (J/soft G) depending on dialect.

 

[:Motorbass]

As much as I hate it, the inventor of the GIF-Format recently got an award and stressed that it's pronounced "JIF"...

http://www.golem.de/news/steve-wilhite-ehrung-fuer-den-erfinder-des-jif-formates-1305-99381.html
too lazy to translate:

Aussprache

Wilhite nutzte die Gelegenheit seiner Auszeichnung, um darauf hinzuweisen, dass die meisten die Bezeichnung seines Formates falsch aussprächen. Es heiße Jif, nicht Gif, erklärte er. Compuserve selbst soll diese Aussprache in der Spezifikation aus dem Jahr 1987 festgelegt haben.

Der Streit, ob das Akronym mit einem harten oder einem weichen Konsonanten ausgesprochen wird, wird schon seit langem geführt. Immerhin: Wer Gif sagt, befindet sich in guter Gesellschaft. Selbst die ehrwürdigen Wörterbücher Oxford English Dictionary und American Heritage Dictionary halten beide Aussprachen für akzeptabel. Falsch, sagt Wilhite. "Es ist ein weiches 'G'. Ausgesprochen 'jif'. Basta."

 

[Anustart]

Whoever changed the thread title.... yeah right. it's short for for Graphics, so it's a hard G. Everyone I've worked with says It like that.
Edit: lol@ new thread title.

And in NeoGAF the 'a' stands for Age, I love NeoGAYF!

 

[Arkos]

GIF with a hard G always sounds like you're lazily trying to say "Gift".

"Did you open that gif'"?

To self quote, it's like this:

Even if you say Jif to talk about peanut butter, you never say "A Jif." Whereas:

"Hey dude I sent you a gif"
"A gift?"
"A gif"
"A GIFT?!"

Or I could go with spaghetti day: "I feel like you're starting to say something but then you're not finishing it."