How do you pronounce .gif

cas · Post by **cas** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:23 pm

grinvader wrote:Neither of those.

I say 'Gee Eye Eff', because it's a fucking acronym.

an acronym was originally a pronounceable word formed from the initial letter or letters of the constituent words, such as NATO or RADAR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

Lizking · Post by **Lizking** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:24 pm

GNU, GNOME, EMACS, BASH are all acronyms that are spoken as words.

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:35 pm

WIP

Dubya-eye-pee? Or whip?

Lizking wrote:GNU

I actually say gee-en-you because I dislike pronouncing guh-new.

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:12 pm

casualsax3 wrote:
blackmyst wrote:None of the above.

Gif. With a German/Dutch G sound. As in "shlecht".
That's completely wrong.

wtf stfu

Over here, either of your options just sound dumb.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:52 pm

On that note
http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:31 am

I've always said GNU as G.N.U., I never knew it was one of those sound-it-out things, like GIF and WIP and such.

Jipcy / bitcopy: I pronounce WIP as whip.

nailbiter · Post by **nailbiter** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:00 am

Jigawatt

I think this says enough.

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:53 am

nailbiter wrote:Jigawatt

I think this says enough.

Gigabytes? Jigabytes? ->Giglibytes<-

Thanks to Xaimoatse and MisterJones.

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:25 am

somebody plz cue burnflame.gif

MCP · Post by **MCP** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:02 am

nailbiter wrote:Jigawatt

Great Scott!

I pronounce ".gif" "dot gif".

I heard a sound bit a few years back:
"I pronounce linux, linux"
he says: lee-nux, not lie-nux. I forgot who it was, some guy who helped create linux.

How do you pronounce "linux"?

cas · Post by **cas** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:05 am

MCP wrote:
nailbiter wrote:Jigawatt
Great Scott!

I pronounce ".gif" "dot gif".

I heard a sound bit a few years back:
"I pronounce linux, linux"
he says: lee-nux, not lie-nux. I forgot who it was, some guy who helped create linux.

Linus Torvalds? I think I heard that too and it sounded more Linn nux. or is this the same thing

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:18 am

Hard g as in "I don't gif a fuck".

Down to the real question, how does one pronounce Nach?

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:30 am

cas wrote:
MCP wrote:
nailbiter wrote:Jigawatt
Great Scott!

I pronounce ".gif" "dot gif".

I heard a sound bit a few years back:
"I pronounce linux, linux"
he says: lee-nux, not lie-nux. I forgot who it was, some guy who helped create linux.
Linus Torvalds? I think I heard that too and it sounded more Linn nux. or is this the same thing

Strong Bad pronounces it "Linn nux". It must be correct.

SquareHead wrote:Hard g as in "I don't gif a fuck".

Down to the real question, how does one pronounce Nach?

There has been a huge trainwreck of a thread on that very subject but I can't be arsed to find it.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:40 am

Maybe it got wiped when the board was hacked.

blackmyst wrote:As in "schlecht".

Fixed.

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:01 pm

'Nach' is pronounced using the german sound, exactly like 'I gehe nach Bonn.'
From the official source himself.

Demios · Post by **Demios** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:42 pm

casualsax3 wrote:On that note
http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/

I win.

kieran_ · Post by **kieran_** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:02 pm

Here is how I pronounce it:
I say it like "Kif" from Futurama, but replace the K with a ...

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:52 pm

creaothceann wrote:
blackmyst wrote:As in "schlecht".
Fixed.

Gah, I knew there was something, I just didn't think a word could actually contain two ch's and live.

nintendoman · Post by **nintendoman** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:06 am

jiff is the real pronouncilatiealation

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:19 am

Great job of reviving a very old thread.

kevman · Post by **kevman** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:26 am

Hmmm. Locked.