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A fun fact about PNG, the correct pronunciation is defined in the specification > PNG is pronounced “ping” See the end of Section 1 [0] 0: https://www.w3.org
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A fun fact about PNG, the correct pronunciation is defined in the specification
> PNG is pronounced “ping”
See the end of Section 1 [0]
0: https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png.pdf https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png.pdf
- gred 1y agoThat makes two image format names which I will refuse to pronounce correctly (the other being GIF [1]). [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/22/tech/web/pronounce-gif https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/22/tech/web/pronounce-gif
- cmiller1 1y agoHow do you pronounce PNG?
- gred 1y agoPee En Gee
- illiac786 1y agoP&G, stands for Pee & Gloat.
- gred 1y agoPortable & Graphical
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y ago"Pong". Hate me, I don't care.
- kristopolous 1y agoI used to call them Nogs claiming the P was silent. People believed me. Still funny.
- ziml77 1y agoThe only logic I ever hear for using a hard G is because that's how Graphics is said. Yet I never hear people saying jay-feg.
- dspillett 1y agoBecause the creator of gifs telling the world how he pronounced it made such a huge difference :) Not sure I'll bother to reprogram myself from “png”, “pung”, or “pee-enn-gee”.
- naikrovek 1y agoWhen someone makes a baby, you call that person by their real name with the correct pronunciation, don’t you? So why can’t you do that with GIF or PNG? People that create things get to name them.
- airstrike 1y agoBecause PNGs won't answer back when I call them by some "correct" name.
- pixl97 1y agoDepends... You'll commonly call someone by their pronounced name out of respect, forced or given. In a situation where someone does something really stupid or annoying and the forced respect isn't there, most people don't.
- AllegedAlec 1y ago> People that create things get to name them. And if they pick something dumb enough other people get to ignore them.
- freeopinion 1y agoA parent may name their baby Elizabeth. Then even the parent might call them Liz or Beth or Betsy or Bit or Bee.
- eviks 1y agoFirst, it's not a baby, that's a ridiculous comparison. But also, no, not universally even for babies, especially when the name is something ridiculous like X Æ A-Xii where even parents disagree on pronunciation, or when the person himself uses a "non-specced" variant
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- yuters 1y agoPronouncing it like that would invite confusion as the word ping is often used in messaging.
- nashashmi 1y agolet's propose PENJ to avoid the confusion.
- eviks 1y agoHa, been doing it "wrong" my whole life!
- ProgramMax 1y agoEven though I know about this, I still pronounce it as letters. :)
- account42 1y agoThat's the correct pronunciation the same way the correct pronunciation for GIF is jiff. Human language is not something you can prescribe.