• Cyanogenmon
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        -21 year 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        131 year 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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          11 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year 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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          11 year 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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          -31 year ago

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