• SeedyOne@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      One of the few times I don’t care what the creator says, he was wrong.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.app
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      1 year ago

      I say dʒɪf, but the way the person who invented it wants you to say it is a really dumb basis for how something is pronounced, imo.

    • Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Me too. I feel like no one pronounced it jif before they said that, and now we have to have an eternal debate over it

      • snowe@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        That’s literally how every programmer pronounced it before it became an Internet sensation. It had a marketing campaign to “sell” the format because that’s how new standards were created initially. They explicitly chose to name it after the peanut butter because it allowed them to give it a catchy phrase to sell it even better “choosy developers choose gif”.