The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThe terrible price of knowledgelemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1213
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minus-squareFrozengyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-21 month agoIt’s a joke from another meme. There was much debate about how to pronounce gif. Is it like the beginning of give or more like jiffy. This is a level 2 meme, you have to know a level 1 meme to understand this one.
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agosigh *rubs forehead* There . . . is. NO. DEBATE. GRAPHICS Interchange Format. GIF. . . . so tired . . . so very tired . . .
minus-squareSporkbomber@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 month agoAnd how would you pronounce jpeg? J-PEG? Or j-feg?Joint PHOTOGRAPHIC experts group. There… Is NO. DEBATE. …so tired… Also laser would like to speak with you. And oddly enough a giraffe.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoI’ve got a gift for that giraffe. It’s a jay-pedge.
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIt’s an initialism, not an acronym.
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agolet’s check in with the inventor…
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe inventor of the common pronunciation of GIF? That’d be like, 20 million people wouldn’t it?
minus-squareFrozengyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoThe man who invented the format/word. He gave his input as well.
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoJust because someone made it doesn’t mean they understand it. I could draw a picture of a purple dragon fucking a monkey but couldn’t tell you why.
minus-squareFrozengyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoBut I feel they have more legitimacy and say than you or I. That being said, language is a fluid thing and influenced by the masses.
minus-squareTikiporch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYou can’t argue with these folks. Reminds of when Andy and Erin write the song about Sabre but thought it was pounced SAB-REE so everything rhymed with that.
minus-squareHaveYouPaidYourDues@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI offer a thrid option, silent g
It’s a joke from another meme. There was much debate about how to pronounce gif. Is it like the beginning of give or more like jiffy.
This is a level 2 meme, you have to know a level 1 meme to understand this one.
sigh
*rubs forehead*
There . . . is. NO. DEBATE. GRAPHICS Interchange Format. GIF.
. . . so tired . . .
so very tired . . .
Giraffics Interchange Format?
And how would you pronounce jpeg? J-PEG?
Or j-feg?Joint PHOTOGRAPHIC experts group. There… Is NO. DEBATE.
…so tired…
Also laser would like to speak with you. And oddly enough a giraffe.
I’ve got a gift for that giraffe. It’s a jay-pedge.
It’s an initialism, not an acronym.
let’s check in with the inventor…
The inventor of the common pronunciation of GIF? That’d be like, 20 million people wouldn’t it?
The man who invented the format/word. He gave his input as well.
Just because someone made it doesn’t mean they understand it.
I could draw a picture of a purple dragon fucking a monkey but couldn’t tell you why.
But I feel they have more legitimacy and say than you or I. That being said, language is a fluid thing and influenced by the masses.
You can’t argue with these folks. Reminds of when Andy and Erin write the song about Sabre but thought it was pounced SAB-REE so everything rhymed with that.
Ty for the winning statement!
I offer a thrid option, silent g
As gif!