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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's interesting debate to observe from my perspective as my native tongue has no different pronunciations for letters, they are always the same regardless of their placement in words. G is always pronounced the same, and so is P. (Spoiler: it's hard G and hard P).

This brought another thing in my mind about soft G. Let's take for example Gin, which is with soft G I believe (it's hard G here because there is only hard G). Then there is the acronym GT for Gin & Tonic. The question is, in English language countries, is the acronym pronounced jay-T instead of gee-T?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

All English is based on etymology which is why it's such a hard language to learn. Looking at how a word is spelled always takes second place to where it comes from.

GIF was pronounced with soft g since it came out, back in the 80s/90s when it was shared on AOL and CompuServe. Year, decades, later it came back into social media with Reddit and Twitter, and people pronounced it based on what it looked like it would sound like, which is most similar to hard g like gift.

That doesn't mean GIF never had a soft g. It just shows how old you are or when you discovered it when you use the hard g.

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

ive only heard G&T pronounced jee & tee

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Wupf energy?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh Lawd! Someone give her some peanut butter!

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[–] ICastFist 5 points 1 year ago

So you pronounce it "Jay fag". Ok, sounds reasonable

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also laser is pronounced "lamb - ser", hard S of course.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's pronounced with a hard J because a soft GIF is just the post deed version of GILF...

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

This is getting ridiculous. Let's just stop using these formats, so that we won't have to fight over the names. Let's all just use the PHNJ format.

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