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Plenty of people in the BBS days didn’t say it that way and creators aren’t guaranteed control over the way their work is interpreted. Plus, pronunciations cha
by antiterra 5y ago
Plenty of people in the BBS days didn’t say it that way and creators aren’t guaranteed control over the way their work is interpreted.
Plus, pronunciations change. I assume you don’t go around demanding people pronounce knife ‘kunifuh,’ right?
- kyruzic 5y agoYou realize you are actually arguing in favour of calling it like jiffy right? Because a direct reading of knife makes it kunifuh, and a direct reading of gif makes it the incorrect pronounciation as well.
- praihan 5y agoTheir argument is that word pronunciations can mutate over time. Knife used to be pronounced k'nife. This slowly faded over time and is now completely eliminated. By analog, jif being the original pronunciation is not important because the majority of people have decided to go with a hard G. In other words, the "correct" spelling or pronunciation of words is democratic.