Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?

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Post by nodata » Wed, May 22, 2013, 1:29 PM UTC

qznc wrote: post #34

AndrewDucker wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. I had no idea that PNG was supposed to be pronounced "Ping" (I always say Pee Enn Gee)

QT should be pronounced "cute", but I say "queue-tee". Linux is pronounced with a short i, but most americans say "lie-nux". As a german I say "Lee-nux". Xing is allegedly pronounced "crossing", but I say "ksing".

> Xing is allegedly pronounced "crossing", but I say "ksing".

Got any info on this? I've heard this only several times (i.e. rarely). Always from people who are used to the "crossing" signs, but never from anybody else.

Re: Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?

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Post by Navarr » Wed, May 22, 2013, 1:30 PM UTC

hiroshi3110 wrote: post #28

In Japan, I never met the people pronounce it "Giff". Always we call it「ジフ」"Jif". Some pronounce git as "jit". Because we pronounce "G" as "Jee".

Is "git" katakanized? 「ギット」かも?

Re: Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?

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Post by rucker » Wed, May 22, 2013, 1:31 PM UTC

I'm in the "jif" crowd. This means that I always want to pronounce "git" as in "Github" with a soft g, which is wrong.

Re: Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?

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Post by bradpitt » Wed, May 22, 2013, 1:31 PM UTC

because of "jif", I thought that "gift" is pronounced as "jift" (that was not so long ago :)

Re: Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?

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Post by upthedale » Wed, May 22, 2013, 1:32 PM UTC

dlsym wrote: post #37

How about: "gitt" vs. "jit"

The former of course. Because Linus is a git :)

Though my French boss goes for the latter, but with a very soft J. In fact, he pronounces it like 'Gîte'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gîte for the pronunciation guide.

Re: Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?

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Post by nodata » Wed, May 22, 2013, 1:32 PM UTC

SoapSeller wrote: post #31

JIF is already taken by JPEG[0], so GIF, with a hard G. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_Interchange_Format#JPEG_fi...

I think GIF came before JPEG.

Re: Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?

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Post by freyr » Wed, May 22, 2013, 1:34 PM UTC

upthedale wrote: post #11

Doesn't the G stand for Graphics? That has a hard G, so I pronounce GIF with one too.

Do you say 'mie·elf' too?

Re: Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?

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Post by vhf » Wed, May 22, 2013, 1:34 PM UTC

qznc wrote: post #34

AndrewDucker wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. I had no idea that PNG was supposed to be pronounced "Ping" (I always say Pee Enn Gee)

QT should be pronounced "cute", but I say "queue-tee". Linux is pronounced with a short i, but most americans say "lie-nux". As a german I say "Lee-nux". Xing is allegedly pronounced "crossing", but I say "ksing".

> QT should be pronounced "cute", but I say "queue-tee".

I think we would say "queue-tee" if it was QT instead of Qt. To me, "cute" makes more sense for "Qt".

Re: Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?

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Post by brazzy » Wed, May 22, 2013, 1:40 PM UTC

jcastro wrote: post #38

qznc wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

QT should be pronounced "cute", but I say "queue-tee". Linux is pronounced with a short i, but most americans say "lie-nux". As a german I say "Lee-nux". Xing is allegedly pronounced "crossing", but I say "ksing".

Also surprised at the number of people who call nginx "en jinx" instead of "engine x"

It really surprises you that names based on cute misspellings that are effectively unpronouncable when taken at face value get pronounced differently by different people?

If Syosev wanted people to pronounce it "engine x", he should have called it "engine x".

Re: Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?

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Post by brazzy » Wed, May 22, 2013, 1:47 PM UTC

hiroshi3110 wrote: post #28

In Japan, I never met the people pronounce it "Giff". Always we call it「ジフ」"Jif". Some pronounce git as "jit". Because we pronounce "G" as "Jee".

> Because we pronounce "G" as "Jee".

So do the English and Americans, yet they mostly seem to prefer the hard g.

Maybe ギフ never caught on becuase it would cause confusion with "give" as well as 岐阜市