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Sorry, but you'll never convert me to that pronunciation, even if that's what the founder wants. "G" stands for "graphics", not "jraphics".

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Perhaps for English, but for Romance languages such as Italian and Latin, the "gi" digram means that the hard g softens to a /dz/ sound, so I'm perfectly comfortable with applying that rule here, and I think it sounds nicer.
0x0000000 3y ago
I imagine you apply this rule equally to "j-ph-eg" images?
- sandyarmstrong 3y ago
  p for picture ;-)
  - jghn 3y ago
    I know there's a smiley here but for others coming across it who may not know, it's "photographic", not "picture"
- maweaver 3y ago
  And also scuba ("underwater"), laser ("amplification"), etc
  - WorldMaker 3y ago
    Also png ("pOrtable", "network", "graphics"). The `ing` diphthong in English is a very different IPA letter sequence than N or G in the corresponding words, and the "natural" vowel from the abbreviations is "o" rather than "i".
    - twic 3y ago
      COronaVIrus Disease 2019.
weare138 3y ago
I'm from Genx. The whole pronunciation thing started as a joke but apparently most people didn't get it and it got out of hand. But maybe that's the hallmark of a really good joke. It just keeps delivering.
- jghn 3y ago
  I'd never heard the hard-G pronunciation until the late 90s. I was assuming it was an internet newb thing due to correlation. And then one day in the early aughts when I heard someone who'd been a netizen for as long as I was. At that point I realized it was just a thing :)
vcg3rd 3y ago
Right? What's the closest English word to gif? Gift. Gifts, gifting. No other words beginning gif. And even words like girl aren't jirl just because giraffe is. Giraffe came from Arabic through Italian. Inventers don't get to change the language just because they invent something.
- ChrisClark 3y ago
  Exactly why JPEG should be pronounced Juh-Pheg. Joint Photographic Experts Group. If you insist on pronouncing gif like graphics, you'd better be saying Juh-Pheg too.
  - DougN7 3y ago
    Gif like “gift”, and jay-peg. Yes, I’m sorry it’s not consistent. And it doesn’t have to be. It is simply correct :)

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago

Perhaps for English, but for Romance languages such as Italian and Latin, the "gi" digram means that the hard g softens to a /dz/ sound, so I'm perfectly comfortable with applying that rule here, and I think it sounds nicer.

0x0000000 3y ago

I imagine you apply this rule equally to "j-ph-eg" images?

sandyarmstrong 3y ago
p for picture ;-)
- jghn 3y ago
  I know there's a smiley here but for others coming across it who may not know, it's "photographic", not "picture"
maweaver 3y ago
And also scuba ("underwater"), laser ("amplification"), etc
- WorldMaker 3y ago
  Also png ("pOrtable", "network", "graphics"). The `ing` diphthong in English is a very different IPA letter sequence than N or G in the corresponding words, and the "natural" vowel from the abbreviations is "o" rather than "i".
  - twic 3y ago
    COronaVIrus Disease 2019.

weare138 3y ago

I'm from Genx. The whole pronunciation thing started as a joke but apparently most people didn't get it and it got out of hand. But maybe that's the hallmark of a really good joke. It just keeps delivering.

jghn 3y ago
I'd never heard the hard-G pronunciation until the late 90s. I was assuming it was an internet newb thing due to correlation. And then one day in the early aughts when I heard someone who'd been a netizen for as long as I was. At that point I realized it was just a thing :)

vcg3rd 3y ago

Right? What's the closest English word to gif? Gift. Gifts, gifting. No other words beginning gif. And even words like girl aren't jirl just because giraffe is. Giraffe came from Arabic through Italian. Inventers don't get to change the language just because they invent something.

ChrisClark 3y ago
Exactly why JPEG should be pronounced Juh-Pheg. Joint Photographic Experts Group. If you insist on pronouncing gif like graphics, you'd better be saying Juh-Pheg too.
- DougN7 3y ago
  Gif like “gift”, and jay-peg. Yes, I’m sorry it’s not consistent. And it doesn’t have to be. It is simply correct :)