• The creator is a programmer, not a linguist. How would he know the intricacies of initialisms, acronyms and their pronunciation?
• He intended it to be marketed as"Choosy developers choose (j)GIF," a play on the peanut butter advertisement for JIF peanut butter... and a massive trademark and copyright infringement.
• As the creator, he does have the right to set the spelling and pronunciation... however, he should have been clear 27 years ago when he created the format instead of trying to correct everyone now like an elitist twat.
It's pronounced JIF. It's always been pronounced JIF. No one that works with computers or graphics has pronounced it any other way. Those stupid fucking Wal-Mart commercials are the only reason this is even being discussed or debated. Before those commercials if anyone pronounced it anyway other than JIF they would be corrected.
no your wrong and you'll always be wrong, fuck you, fuck your dog, fuck your toilet. you're wrong literally EVERYBODY called it gif before the creator said it was fucking jif
• The creator is a programmer, not a linguist. How would he know the intricacies of initialisms, acronyms and their pronunciation?
• He intended it to be marketed as"Choosy developers choose (j)GIF," a play on the peanut butter advertisement for JIF peanut butter... and a massive trademark and copyright infringement.
• As the creator, he does have the right to set the spelling and pronunciation... however, he should have been clear 27 years ago when he created the format instead of trying to correct everyone now like an elitist twat.
>still says he's wrong
He lost that right 26 years ago.
I now pronounce it as jif but now I'm being told it's gif
GUYS
How about we say it how we want and don't hiss at others for saying it how they want