Jandalf, yes I was once called that. Jandalf the Jray.
Now I am Jandalf the Hwhite.
After smearing myself with chool hwip
Why do you keep saying it like that?!
My giant giraffe agrees.
If you’re still unconvinced, say “G”
The letter starts with the J sound.
Checkmate atheists.
I may sound haughty and knowledgable when I say JiF then, but between just you and me, I didn’t know a damn thing about this and just decided to say it this way in my brain for reasons that remain unclear.
Me too. I just always said it with a soft G because my brain told me that’s how it was pronounced.
Strange that I never got a notification for this. Hm.
I’ve always pronounced it that way for whatever reason, and when I learned that was the correct way I was very high and mighty, lol
Yes but actually no
Was it a gift?
Yeah, from a gyrating genie named George.
Oh yeah? Well lick my gargantuan gorilla gonads.
(I’m actually team jif but can’t help myself)
Oooh, that’s how grammar works in English language? Okay, so me as a developer of some obscure thing from this point forward are instructing everyone to pronounce “home” as “hume”, since that’s how you pronounce “o” in “tomb”. I decided that solely because my software is loosely related to the meaning of the word. K thx bai.
Did you invent the word home? No? So you don’t get to decide how to pronounce it.
Neither did the author of graphic format. GIF is not a word, but initialism, like NSA, FBI, NASA, IBM, etc. And there are specific rules how they are read and pronounced.
NASA is an acronym, not an initialism. And guess how the last letter of NASA is pronounced versus how the A in the corresponding word is pronounced. Ah vs Uh.
Irrelevant comment to the discussion at hand as the matter is not set in stone in English language. More to the point it doesn’t change the fact how GIF is pronounced. Even if you consider it an acronym it’s still a form of abbreviation and not a word on its own with known heritage, hence the general rules on how to pronounce letter
gdo not apply.Had the word originate from French part of the English dictionary (like gin, giraffe, etc.) then
gis pronounced asjbefore vowelseandiand would make sense. But Germanic words (such as gift, geese) still use hardg. So applying normal rules is pointless, since English has no such thing.In short, it’s pronounced whatever the way people pronounce it. End of story.
O.k.
Good god Gordon go gag a gator
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Would be the worst retroactive devaluation of a body of literary work since JK Rowling showed the world how she really is.
Orson Scott Card’s gotta rank up there, too.
True
I really don’t think JK Rowling revealed who she really was. I think she demonstrated what too much money does to someone.
Nah, you become overconfident, callous and indifferent to the suffering of others from amassing extreme wealth.
Bigotry and pretending to be the victim of those you victimize is income-agnostic.
Good point. I guess it’s a case of “a little of column A and a little of column B.”
You can tell that’s fine art because it says it is.
Picasso did the same thing.
Jicasso?
No, Picasso, pronounced Pizza-so.
I read that as “Yan-dolf”.
I am not even making this up.
OK you fancy Dutch dude. What’re ya gonna do now? Brag about bicycles and socialized medicine?!!! (He says, jealous af)
It’s clearly laurel-dolf
Nah, the "a"s are silent.
“Sauron’s eye was supposed to be a gigantic vagina”
Sauron’s whispering eye.
Sauron’s vag
What if he was evil because he wasn’t getting any and his best attempt at making a medieval fleshlight kinda backfired.
One demussy to rule them all
Anyone who uses the argument that Graphical is pronounced with a hard G sound needs to think about how they pronounce other acronyms, like SCUBA, NASA, LASER, SONAR, POG, SIM… the list goes on.
I do say N(ay)SA to annoy people.
And Elrond is Hispanic elf
comes back
Bilbo is gay!
dies
comes back
Nazgul are just men in dresses!
not canceled cause that’s true
Without the R???
i_understood_that_reference.jif
Guess we need to remake the trilogy.
Hollywood’s probably working on that anyway.
Maybe this time they can put in some GOD DAMN TOM BOMBADIL
You sit the FUCK BACK DOWN, BOMBADIL! You won a Tolkien sweepstakes and got name dropped in the book, that’s all!!!
All letters before A are silent.
Dango Unchained
Ah yes, my favorite movie
Gneiss!
LF?
The genius Tolkien, ever generous, gestured for a round of gin martinis from his giant gentle giraffe. Over gentle murmurs from the crowd, I caught the gist of his speech: genuinely it’s pronounced Jandalf.
Jandalf the Drey.
I would watch that movie.
He should also come out with some delicious spreads for toast, he could call them Jamdalf.
Yandalf the Yrey
