this is like the dude who invented GIF thinking everyone was going to call it “jiff”. it ain’t happening, broski.
The G stands for Jraphics
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.
animated palettised depictions of giraffes
So… where are these originals?
Yeah, just like the U stands for oonderwater in SCUBA, or the P stands for potographics in JPG!
That or Giraffe Interchange Format
This should be part of ISO
Welcome to… Jraphic Park!
No, it stands for Jira.
And this is why Sonic and Shadow never sit down together for thanksgiving
It’s obviously pronounced “jif” just like giraffe.
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It is called jiff tho?
Jif is a peanut butter brand
Mmm, creamy
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!
not any more than gnome is called guh-nome.
That’s why you had to spell it wrong in order to communicate that.
It is called jiff tho?
If they’d wanted us to call Itchio Itch, they shouldn’t have called it Itchio.
Similarly, if they’d wanted us to call Gnome Ganome, they shouldn’t have called it Gnome.
Maybe English should just get rid of the stupid “the first consonant is silent when two consonants form the beginning of a word” rule tbf.
It’s a skill issue to mispronounce loan words (like gnome, pterodactyl or psychology).
English is a hideous mongrel of a language.
I was already an adult when I learned that “salmon” is supposed to be pronounced as “sammon”.
Thanks for the painful laugh, Gugulethu
Wait wait wait… How are baked and naked supposed to be pronounced?
I think, e is silent in baked and not in naked. But that’s kind of like Sean Bean
I’ve been pronouncing naked as baked for a while now. Thankfully it doesn’t come up in conversation as often.
out of curiosity, do you speak another language than English?
I sure don’t!
ah, I was wondering because, in comparison to my native tongue (French), I’ve found English significantly more intuitive. I may be biased though, or French may just be another mongrel of a language 😅
My uneducated feeling so far is that most languages weren’t developed with particularly logical rules, and rules were added retroactively, and as such, most languages are ugly amalgamations, but English gets some of the worst rep because of its dominance on the internet.
If you don’t pronounce the p in pterodactyl or psychiatrist then lose my number
If I start pronouncing them, can I get your number?
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Snail, small, three, press, change. I could keep going.
I’ve never heard of that rule. There are a few combos that are basically always that way though: pt, gn, and kn come to mind.
And then there are the cases where two consonants combine to form another sound entirely: ph, ch, sh, th.
English is a mix and match of a bunch of other languages
You just got gnomed!
was looking exactly for this
I feel like if I’m pronouncing any Linux package for the first time, there’s some tongue-in-cheek “um, actually” trap hidden just around the corner for some self-righteous geek to correct you with a big smirk on their face because they get to feel smarter, which I used to be guilty of, but try to cut back on as much as I can these days.
It’s a fun joke at first, but I kind of got tired of it after a while, and just decided that politely educating in context and ignoring it otherwise feels way nicer.
I’ve never met anyone who took this seriously in real life. Like they know what you mean and will joke about the pronunciation. But I read a lot more about these holy wars online.
If it makes anyone feel better, I watched a coworker write “sequel” in her notes while I was talking about SQL.
Phonetically it’s pronounced “K-D-E-is-superior”
But hey, language is protean. It evolves and flows like a river, daddy-o.
Nice, so I can read all I want on keto?
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In Italian “gn” sounds like a brief “nyuh” or “ny” like in gnocchi.
So “nyome”.
Nyohmaye 🤌
Nyuma nyohma nyohmaye
also lasagna unless you’re British and you prefer yourself a la-zag-na
Nyan~! :3
Yohohoho!
I’m not a KDE, I’m not XFCE, I’m not LTQt, I’m not a Hyprland, I’m not a Cinnamon, I’m a Guh-Nome! And you have been Guh-Nomed!
borks your Linux
Today I’m learning this and now I learn GNU is supposed to be pronounced “guh-NEW”
Obviously… since their logo and spelling is the same as the animal… pronounced “noo”.
I don’t know if I’ve had to say Gnome out loud before to another human person. I would go with the garden variety gnome myself.
It’s pronounced gee-nome, right?
G-gnome
And then I’m out there pronouncing it G-Nome…
Its pronounced GIF
it’s pronounced david
