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Re: Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question

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Post by throwaway894345 »

rhacker wrote: post #2

As soon as someone wants to take a hard stance on it it makes me want to switch. I don't know why. I typically said Jiff (like the PB) but with this site's attitude I'm going to start saying GIFT (with no T) again.

Welcome to the resistance!

Re: Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question

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Post by LanceH »

throwaway894345 wrote: post #3
rhacker wrote: post #2

As soon as someone wants to take a hard stance on it it makes me want to switch. I don't know why. I typically said Jiff (like the PB) but with this site's attitude I'm going to start saying GIFT (with no T) again.

Welcome to the resistance!

I've found more people insist that it if hard 'g' like gift. Usually going with the 'gift' argument, or that 'graphics' also has a hard 'g' -- both addressed in this article.

Oh, and tabs are both better than spaces and make more sense.

Re: Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question

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Post by coolso »

rhacker wrote: post #2

As soon as someone wants to take a hard stance on it it makes me want to switch. I don't know why. I typically said Jiff (like the PB) but with this site's attitude I'm going to start saying GIFT (with no T) again.

Similarly, when someone wants to take the opposite stance of a well reasoned stance for reasons unrelated to the stance itself (feelings, etc.), I tend to want to take the stance of the original to counter the person taking the opposite stance. I'm going to start staying GIF (like JIF) again.

Re: Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question

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Post by smlavine »

LanceH wrote: post #4
throwaway894345 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to the resistance!

I've found more people insist that it if hard 'g' like gift. Usually going with the 'gift' argument, or that 'graphics' also has a hard 'g' -- both addressed in this article. Oh, and tabs are both better than spaces and make more sense.

Now there's an idea. What's the correlation between those who pronounce hard-g/soft-g and those who prefer tabs/spaces? I wonder what this could say about a split between old and new programming culture. If anything.

Probably not.

Re: Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question

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Post by sosuke »

rhacker wrote: post #2

As soon as someone wants to take a hard stance on it it makes me want to switch. I don't know why. I typically said Jiff (like the PB) but with this site's attitude I'm going to start saying GIFT (with no T) again.

Probably because I was a Peter Pan kid but I loathed the Jiff commercials. No joke I was angry about the slogan because I loved my mom and Peter Pan PB.

I'm going to keep calling it GIFT (with no T) because no one has ever misunderstood me. And I'm not about to start putting Giff in my PB sandwiches. Jiff or GIF is also such a small thing. Like alu-mi-nium or alu-mi-ni-um perhaps?

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