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The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

My hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOME

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My hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOME

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The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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  • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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    this is like the dude who invented GIF thinking everyone was going to call it “jiff”. it ain’t happening, broski.

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      The G stands for Jraphics

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        The format was originally designed to interchange animated palettised depictions of giraffes, so Giraffic Interchange Format made sense. They just changed the acronym when they realised that by storing different colours in the palette, you could depict things other than giraffes.

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          animated palettised depictions of giraffes

          So… where are these originals?

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        Yeah, just like the U stands for oonderwater in SCUBA, or the P stands for potographics in JPG!

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        That or Giraffe Interchange Format

        • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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          This should be part of ISO

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        Welcome to… Jraphic Park!

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        No, it stands for Jira.

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      It’s pronounced gif

      • tetris11@feddit.uk
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        And this is why Sonic and Shadow never sit down together for thanksgiving

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      https://youtu.be/bmqy-Sp0txY

      ZHAIF 4 LAIF!

      :)

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      It’s obviously pronounced “jif” just like giraffe.

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      deleted by creator

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      It is called jiff tho?

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      It is called jiff tho?

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        Jif is a peanut butter brand

        • smeg@feddit.uk
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          Mmm, creamy

          • DrDystopia@lemy.lol
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            Maximum cleaning

            Minimum scrubbing

            I’ll never have to buy toilet paper again!

            Edit: Also, I like the taste of citrus so that’s nice too!

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        not any more than gnome is called guh-nome.

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        That’s why you had to spell it wrong in order to communicate that.

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