• @[email protected]
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      73 days ago

      How do you pronounce github? GIMP? GNU? GPU? Javascript?

      Oh Geremy, it’s time to jo to the jocery store! We need some jrape gelly.

      • @pumpkinseedoil
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        Wait they’re supposed to be pronounced with J? Except JS obviously I pronounced them all with G

      • HatchetHaro
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        Geoff is a gentle German giant with ginger hair. He’s also a germaphobe, though generally he’s still a genuine gentleman. You get the gist.

    • @[email protected]
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      GIF is an acronym. Giraffe is not. The Giraffe response has been debunked for decades.

      Graphical is a hard G.

      • @[email protected]
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        163 days ago

        Debunked? Its a counterpoint to the fact that it’s pronounced that way because it’s spelled with a g. If that poor argument wasn’t used, the giraffe one wouldn’t have to come up. It’s not evidence of anything other than that letters can be pronounced in more than one way.

        For the graphical thing, imagine pronouncing NASA wrong because of the way aeronautical is pronounce. Or underwater in scuba. World in WHO? The I in AIDS isn’t pronounced anything like immunodeficiency.

        Your argument doesn’t work either.

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      If there’s ever a Giraffe Interchange Format, I’ll pronounce it the same as giraffe. And unlike some people, I’ll be able to tell the two apart.

      • HatchetHaro
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        In the meantime, there is a Joint Photographics Experts Group. I love me some deep fried jfegs!

      • @jbrains
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        Yes, but “GIF” is not etymologically Germanic. 😉

      • @[email protected]
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        23 days ago

        With the other pronunciation. Some letters have more than one. Your statement is nonsense lol

      • @xmunk
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        How do you pronounce ghoti?