"It's a soft 'g', so it's 'jif'. Trust me
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Graphical. Guh.
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Graphical. Guh.
@Aqua-Letifer said in "It's a soft 'g', so it's 'jif'. Trust me:
Graphical. Guh.
Yup. I get it.
And I pronounce with a hard "g" as well.
But...the guy who invented it says that I'm wrong. Now that he's dead, I can ignore that comment.
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@George-K said in "It's a soft 'g', so it's 'jif'. Trust me:
Just wanted to get this out before anyone else...

Spelled with a J.
I don't see where the hangup is, people.
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@Horace said in "It's a soft 'g', so it's 'jif'. Trust me:
Not to brag, but I once wrote some code to read tiff images.
Soft T? As in a Spanish sounding “thiff”?
@89th said in "It's a soft 'g', so it's 'jif'. Trust me:
@Horace said in "It's a soft 'g', so it's 'jif'. Trust me:
Not to brag, but I once wrote some code to read tiff images.
Soft T? As in a Spanish sounding “thiff”?
Yes and ironically I wrote it in Lisp. Not really but it would be nice if so.
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Graphical. Guh.
@Aqua-Letifer said in "It's a soft 'g', so it's 'jif'. Trust me:
Graphical. Guh.
This. The inventor of the file format was wrong, if he said otherwise.
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@George-K said in "It's a soft 'g', so it's 'jif'. Trust me:
OK, who says "gif" with a "soft" g?
I don't and never have.
No, of course not
Hard G, no question
And the story doesn't say "the inventor", it says " one of the lead inventors of the GIF"
So maybe he was just one of many guys hanging around the office when gif was invented.
The soft G sounds ridiculous
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