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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[–] -2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

If it were meant to be pronounced 'giff' as in 'goober', it would have been spelled that way. You decide to turn an initialism into an acronym, you get what you get.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It always WAS an acronym. That's the entire point of the argument. "G"raphics "I"nterchange "F"ormat.

    Nobody turned it into an acryonym, it just IS an acronym. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. The reason it's pronounced with a hard G is because Graphics is a hard G.

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