• @derekabutton
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    82 months ago

    So how do you pronounce giraffe?

      • @derekabutton
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        72 months ago

        Yeah and it’s giraffe, not jiraffe. See how that gets us nowhere?

        • m-p{3}
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          2 months ago

          Jood gob indeed (just kidding, no malice intended)

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      How do you pronounce github? GIMP? GNU? GPU? Javascript?

      Oh Geremy, it’s time to jo to the jocery store! We need some jrape gelly.

      • HatchetHaro
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        102 months ago

        Geoff is a gentle German giant with ginger hair. He’s also a germaphobe, though generally he’s still a genuine gentleman. You get the gist.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        Wait they’re supposed to be pronounced with J? Except JS obviously I pronounced them all with G

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      GIF is an acronym. Giraffe is not. The Giraffe response has been debunked for decades.

      Graphical is a hard G.

      • @derekabutton
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        152 months ago

        Debunked? Its a counterpoint to the fact that it’s pronounced that way because it’s spelled with a g. If that poor argument wasn’t used, the giraffe one wouldn’t have to come up. It’s not evidence of anything other than that letters can be pronounced in more than one way.

        For the graphical thing, imagine pronouncing NASA wrong because of the way aeronautical is pronounce. Or underwater in scuba. World in WHO? The I in AIDS isn’t pronounced anything like immunodeficiency.

        Your argument doesn’t work either.

    • @AbouBenAdhem
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      2 months ago

      If there’s ever a Giraffe Interchange Format, I’ll pronounce it the same as giraffe. And unlike some people, I’ll be able to tell the two apart.

      • HatchetHaro
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        62 months ago

        In the meantime, there is a Joint Photographics Experts Group. I love me some deep fried jfegs!