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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No thanks, I'll just continue to pronounce the g in graphics correctly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One problem: it's Joint Photographic Experts Group, so by that logic, Jpeg is actually Jfeg... I agree with the pronunciation, but your logic is flawed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

NOOOOOOOO DONT DO THIS NOOOOO

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

your logic is flawed

It isn't, really. There's no rule or other logical reason to pronounce GIF in any other way, unless you count author intent. In which case you would have to start every phone call with "ahoy-hoy" like Mr Burns since that's what Bell proposed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is illogical if you say the reason for saying it with g is the same as in graphic. Just say you find it easier to read it or like it that way (that's how i say it too)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Phonological consistency is inherently logical and the default used when no exceptions apply.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then what is the exception for Jpeg?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The ph digraph, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, then why does the logic not make Jpeg into Jfeg?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never said whether or not the same logic applies to the ph digraph and I'm frankly not sure whether or not it does. What I DO know is that it applies to the g in gif.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nope, just phonology.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is not how acronyms work tho.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It kinda is. Unless you have a REALLY good reason not to, you pronounce the letters in the same way as you would if you were saying the whole word.

There is no such reason in this case.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it isn't, you pronounce an acronym as if it was its own word. The A and O in NATO are pronounced nothing like the ones in Atlantic and Organisation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Its own word starting with the same letter variant as the first component word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gif stands for "graphics interchange format", or a graphics card. You don't call it a jraphics card or a yraphics card.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Joint Photographic Expert Group. Do you pronounce the image format Jfeg?

I agree it's hard g gif, but your logic is flawed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Scuba, and laser are other examples where you're wrong

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, that's the novelty exercise class I joined last Tuesday.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also the training program for your exotic pet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder which order of discovery would be the least preposterous for the two things to be connected: finding out about the exercise fad at my semi-weekly training sesh with Gary or getting the idea of giraffe ownership from today's hot new animal imitation workout 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the way.