• Cyanogenmon
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    372 years ago

    I seen a guraffe at the zoo!

        • MxM111
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          -32 years ago

          If it were gyf or gir, then it could have been gyro or giraffe. But no, it was a gift of gif.

      • Cyanogenmon
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        -12 years ago

        I hate you feel that way. Can I get you a jift to make you feel better?

        It will be a guygantic jift. A large external drive that can hold MANY jiggabytes. Just be careful, it will take a lot of power. 1.21 jiggawatts at least.

    • @Ktheone
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      22 years ago

      Don’t you mean a jay-raffe?

      • @TommySalami
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        132 years ago

        yeah man, just like you go scuba diving oo-nderwater.

        it’s a dead end. We can’t pretend that “g” can’t also be pronounced as “j”, or that the words making up the acronym matter. It’s all preference and since GIF’s dad called it “jif”, I’m gonna call it “jif”. At least that’s based on something beyond my own hubris.

        • Cyanogenmon
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          12 years ago

          This is my thinking - as far as I know he actually called it that as a reference to jif peanut butter.

        • Instigate
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          -42 years ago

          Saying it with a hard G because ‘graphical’ has a hard G is a reason based on something beyond hubris.

      • @SuperIce
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        132 years ago

        That’s easily the worst reasoning for the hard-g considering how we don’t pronounce the letters of most acronyms based on the phrases they come from.

        • Nora
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          32 years ago

          Tell that to Qantas, the abomination of all acronyms. WHERE IS THE U??? AAAAAAAAA

      • @hamFoilHat
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        112 years ago

        Just like jpeg is pronounced “jfeg”

      • @kibiz0r
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        2 years ago

        The p in jpeg stands for “photographic”.

        So… “jay-feg”?