Survey: How do you pronounce the file extension .gif?

Col · Post by **Col** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:59 pm

Jim North wrote:No no no, see . . . it's spelled GIF, but it's pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove"!

"And now for something completely different..."

Steverules · Post by **Steverules** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:07 pm

.Gif boy: Do not try and pronounce the .gif. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
.Gif boy: There is no .gif.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:06 pm

steverules wrote:.Gif boy: There is no .gif.

That's what you said about the cliff edge.

[AlmightyPyro] · Post by **[AlmightyPyro]** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:10 pm

i've always called it a 'jiff'.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:20 pm

Col wrote:
Jim North wrote:No no no, see . . . it's spelled GIF, but it's pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove"!

"And now for something completely different..."

I make a motion for the admins to implement a filter that replaces all instances of .gif on these boards with .throatWarblerMangrove

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:09 pm

I'd pronounce it "jiff" I guess...although I don't think I've ever had reason to use the term in coversation. But that's how I hear the word pronounced in my head.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:25 pm

I pronounce it Gif with a hard G. But I do have a bad habit of calling an LED a 'lead'. I know I'm not supposed to, and I've driven many tech people crazy by accidently saying 'lead' instead of L-E-D, but I dunno. I just don't like to spell things out using letters.

I pronounce ROFL as 'roffle' and 'LOL' as 'lol' (Like lollypop only just the 'lol' part). I've also taken to pronouncing 'AFK' as 'a-fack' for some reason. *shrugs*

Jops · Post by **Jops** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:45 pm

I always use the hard G, even if in italian a G followed by an I must always have a soft sound and so, i often hear people pronuncing it that way.

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:20 am

Hard. I like it hard. It's the Finnish way... I mean pronunciation.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:50 am

Gengar003 wrote:
Col wrote:
Jim North wrote:No no no, see . . . it's spelled GIF, but it's pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove"!

"And now for something completely different..."
I make a motion for the admins to implement a filter that replaces all instances of .gif on these boards with .throatWarblerMangrove

IVstudios · Post by **IVstudios** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:59 am

Sam_Charette · Post by **Sam_Charette** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:36 am

KittyKatBlack wrote:I pronounce it Gif with a hard G. But I do have a bad habit of calling an LED a 'lead'. I know I'm not supposed to, and I've driven many tech people crazy by accidently saying 'lead' instead of L-E-D, but I dunno. I just don't like to spell things out using letters.

There's nothing wrong with pronouncing acronyms. We do this all the time with anything that sounds like a word. A friend of mine got annoyed with someone for saying "Earl" (URL) in his presentaction instead of saying U-R-L. That's just silly. People pronounce many acronyms as words.

SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus)
RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging)
LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)
SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging)
HUD (Heads Up Display, though this may just be me)

How about computer-specific terms?

LAN (Local Area Network)
WAN (Wide Area Network)
Modem (MOdulator/DEModulator, though not really an acronym per se)
RAM (Random Access Memory)
ROM (Read Only Memory)
SQL (Structured Query Language, sometimes spoken Sequel)

There are plenty of acronyms that are pronounced as words. We as a society are too lazy to pronounce each letter, so we just see it as a word. It's normal, and anyone who gets on your back about it really should remove the stick from their ass.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:59 pm

Hear hear!

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:10 pm

Sam_Charette wrote:People pronounce many acronyms as words.

That's because the definition of "acronym" is an abbreviation that can be pronounced as a word!

Otherwise it's just an abbreviation.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:20 pm

An abbreviation is the simple shortening of a word (the abbreviation of "abbreviation" is "abbrev.", for example), while an acronym is a word in which each letter stands for a different word in an entire phrase (like STP is Standard Temperature and Pressure).

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:24 pm

That'll learn me not to try and sound smart and say stuff without looking up the facts first.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:09 pm

Stop quoting dictionary people!

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:14 pm

KittyKatBlack wrote:I pronounce it Gif with a hard G. But I do have a bad habit of calling an LED a 'lead'. I know I'm not supposed to, and I've driven many tech people crazy by accidently saying 'lead' instead of L-E-D, but I dunno. I just don't like to spell things out using letters.

I pronounce ROFL as 'roffle' and 'LOL' as 'lol' (Like lollypop only just the 'lol' part). I've also taken to pronouncing 'AFK' as 'a-fack' for some reason. *shrugs*

Weird, in all the computer places I've worked at, people are asking me for "lead" times rather than LED.

ROFLMAO is rofflemayo to me.
WTF is wuttuhfuh.
OMFGWTFBBQ is ohmuhfugoshwuttuhfuhbarbecue.

Malise · Post by **Malise** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:00 pm

it depends on whom I'm speaking to. I tend to adapt my pronunciation to correspond with that of whomever I'm speaking with.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:36 pm

Wow, Rkolter, you've got lotus 123 on your machine?

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Survey: How do you pronounce the file extension .gif?

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