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[-] armus@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago
[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago
[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

It's not Data, the correct pronunciation is Data.

[-] digger@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

The one on the left is pronounced GIF and the one on the right is pronounced GIF.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 11 points 1 year ago

Actually, I'm pretty sure you have them flipped

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

You're both wrong, the G is silent.

[-] NessD@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Gif as in gift. Anything else is nonsense!

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

The girl's gig to give the gift of gifs

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[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ever seen a geriatric geologist named George at the gym? How about a giant ginger giraffe drunk on gin. What about a genderless genealogist cutting generic gems?

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[-] Zorque@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

One is my name, the other is not.

[-] teft@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

Graphics Interchange Format. Hard G.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

I use a hard G but this is a bad argument. I'll just link to this great list of counterexamples:

https://lemmy.world/comment/2216080

[-] r2vq@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

How do you pronounce JPEG?

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[-] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you pronounce origin like the state?

Do you you also say "nay-say" when reading NASA, lol, that logic is flawed.

I'd like to remind everyone that the rules for words amd pronunciation were documented AFTER most words, which is why it's so inconsistent and arbitrary

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[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Always pronounce it "GIF."

Never "JIF."

Only Lore does that.

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 10 points 1 year ago

Uhm achtckyally it's GIF

[-] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Data definitely says the hard g. His interests are in being more human. Not pedantically arguing about the way the creator says things in an attempt to upend the majority. The latter is definitely Lore's jam, though

Be more like Data.

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Way to start another flame war Xusontha! Or is it Zusontha?

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 8 points 1 year ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

...It's secretly a Greek letter chi, isn't it?

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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago
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[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 6 points 1 year ago

It really hits every spot on the spectrum from minion to stripper dances lol

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

What the hell is a gigawatt?

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Pronounced "jijawatt":
gigawatts

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

It all depends if you pronounce it
Graphics interchange format
Or
Jraphics interchange format

[-] IzzyData@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Lore: It's pronounced GIF... because of the implication.

[-] macabrett@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I pronounce it like gin but I don't really care how someone else pronounces it.

[-] Downcount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I don't care as long as you don't say Jetpack to JPG like my old collegue used to say.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 5 points 1 year ago

Whut

That's an actual crime

Do you pronounce origin like the state?

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