Itās not the guy who said it first itās the guy who made a file format and chose a name that was the same as the peanut butter companyā¦
Are you seriously this narcissistic that you canāt admit the way you say something is technically wrong? A product was made with a specific name and you choose to say it contrary to that way because it conveys the information itās a perfectly acceptable way of pronouncing it but if you canāt admit that you are technically wrong in something so stupid and benign as a pronunciation of an acronym then you might have a problem.
Iāll even go first and announce to all the people on this thread that I am in facts not gods gift to the world and sometimes pronounce words differently than their correct pronunciations because the correct ones are less fun.
Hey Iām the one who said itās the only argument that holds any water, I just already have water. I lost this argument to my brother over a decade ago and have admitted I was wrong since then. Language is only valuable insofar as youāre able to make your point understood to the people youāre talking to. There is no correct way to say anything except the way that your audience understands. Iāll give you that the 1987 CompuServ file was pronounced with a soft g (seemingly due to lazy marketing), but the word has gone beyond that product. As others have mentioned, most āgifsā are not even in that format anymore and havenāt been for years and years. The majority of people using the word donāt really know what it means and certainly donāt know or care how it was coined. But if it makes you feel better, I promise the next time Iām buying a .gif in 1987, Iāll use the soft g.
but if you canāt admit that you are technically wrong in something so stupid and benign as a pronunciation of an acronym then you might have a problem.
If youāre getting this upset about something you admit is stupid and benign then you might have a problem.
Itās not the guy who said it first itās the guy who made a file format and chose a name that was the same as the peanut butter companyā¦
Are you seriously this narcissistic that you canāt admit the way you say something is technically wrong? A product was made with a specific name and you choose to say it contrary to that way because it conveys the information itās a perfectly acceptable way of pronouncing it but if you canāt admit that you are technically wrong in something so stupid and benign as a pronunciation of an acronym then you might have a problem.
Iāll even go first and announce to all the people on this thread that I am in facts not gods gift to the world and sometimes pronounce words differently than their correct pronunciations because the correct ones are less fun.
Hey Iām the one who said itās the only argument that holds any water, I just already have water. I lost this argument to my brother over a decade ago and have admitted I was wrong since then. Language is only valuable insofar as youāre able to make your point understood to the people youāre talking to. There is no correct way to say anything except the way that your audience understands. Iāll give you that the 1987 CompuServ file was pronounced with a soft g (seemingly due to lazy marketing), but the word has gone beyond that product. As others have mentioned, most āgifsā are not even in that format anymore and havenāt been for years and years. The majority of people using the word donāt really know what it means and certainly donāt know or care how it was coined. But if it makes you feel better, I promise the next time Iām buying a .gif in 1987, Iāll use the soft g.
If youāre getting this upset about something you admit is stupid and benign then you might have a problem.