cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/70869345

Credit to Jack Scully

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[–] 75 points 3 weeks ago (33 children)

Jraphics Interchange Format

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  • [–] 24 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

    The pronunciation of an anagram's component words has no bearing on the anagram's pronunciation.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    I think that question is best posed to the Joint Photographic Experts Group, better known as "jay-fegg".

    (For the record, I'm in camp "G as in Graphic", but it's still true that an acronym's source words don't dictate the pronunciation.)

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Right, in cases where an acronym is pronounced as word it generally follows the normal convention of the letters that form the word. Which would STILL result in the same pronunciation as "g" in graphics or gun.

    Of course accepted convention and tradition can also matter. If a word is generally pronounced a certain way then that is how its pronounced. Which of course STILL gives us the soft G.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    Right, in cases where an acronym is pronounced as word it generally follows the normal convention of the letters that form the word.

    Meanwhile, the GNU Project calls itself "guh-nu" and then chooses a gnu ("nu") as its mascot.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    They dont absolutely define it, but they certainly contribute. Assuming one or the other as sole definer seems silly.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Except they don't. The vast majority of acronyms have at least one letter that's pronounced differently than in the word it's representing. Any correlation is purely coincidental.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    So occasionally one letter doesnt fit with the rest... doesnt that mean that the rule is not absolute and my statement is correct? That often the originating phrase contributes and often it does not, and that neither is exclusive to the other?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    NASA and LASER would like a word.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    wait hang on... nasa works. laser is more iffy.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    If you're pronouncing NASA and Aeronautics the same way you're definitely saying one of them wrong.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    it's a very subtle difference, if you don't count the /Γ¦/ diphthong. i think i could get away with it.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Congratulations on proving it's pronounces /jiff/

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

    joint pottographics interchange group

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Jay-fog is going to be my new

    That said it’s still gif (not jiff).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    MySQL would love this kind of recognition, instead it just gets turned into "My"SQL.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Technically the original JPEG container format is "JIF", throwing another wildcard into the mix.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_File_Interchange_Format

    The base specifications for a JPEG container format are defined in Annex B of the JPEG standard, known as JPEG Interchange Format (JIF).

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