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why is it always furries rule (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [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