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Gif or Jif debate finally over?
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:37 am
by JayBird
I really dont care either way, but thought id post it for anyone that does
http://www.olsenhome.com/gif
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:27 am
by John Cartwright
To everyone that didn't believe me ... eat my ...shorts.

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:52 am
by hawleyjr
Blah blah blah ~ viva la GIF (SAID WITH A HARD G)
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:09 pm
by patrikG
is there a "MySequel vs MySQL"-Page as well?

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:06 pm
by mickd
ive been pronoucing it as "jif" this whole time without even realising it.
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:00 pm
by feyd
I'll continue saying 'gif' .. mostly because everyone I know says it that way, and I'm a stick in the mud.
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:20 pm
by m3mn0n
patrikG wrote:is there a "MySequel vs MySQL"-Page as well?

haha I was just about to post that
I always say MySQL since I think MySequel is just weird to me since there is no E between the S and Q... if there was, I'd say Sequel.
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:12 pm
by neophyte
Peanut butter images!
Interesting. The first reader comment made me laugh!
First of all let me say that Mac zealots should be rounded up into cattle cars, gassed to death and incinerated to make certain there is no remaining genetic material that might infect the rest of the gene pool.
Although I'm not currently using a Mac, I did every day for 6 years. New avatar day. Gonna go dig up a new one.
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:46 pm
by Deemo
jif and ping!
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:21 pm
by Burrito
patrikG wrote:is there a "MySequel vs MySQL"-Page as well?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/what-is.html
at the bottom of the page.
The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”), but we don't mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel” or in some other localized way.
straight from the horses mouth.
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:28 am
by pilau
I'll keep pronouncing it as "GIF". Because "Jiffa" in Hebrew slang (it comes from Arab actually) means something dirty and disgusting. And besides it sounds much better with a hard G.
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:24 pm
by Chris Corbyn
I'm gonna have to keep saying GIF.... If I try and say Jif it's gonna mess with my head cos I'll be thinking of the
cream cleaner Jif (Now known as Cif)

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:27 am
by Grim...
That page is a pile of crap.
Who cares how the creators tell you to say the word? The English language dictates how we say things, not a bunch of programmers.
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:34 am
by Chris Corbyn
Grim... wrote:That page is a pile of crap.
Who cares how the creators tell you to say the word? The English language dictates how we say things, not a bunch of programmers.
Well if I'd written something big like GIF and there were varying pronounciations I would simply take the stance that "it doesn't matter how you say it as long we're all talking about the same thing". Mr Torvalds

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:40 am
by jayshields
Well I can honestly say I've never said a file extension out loud, but in my head I read a .gif as gif, with a hard g.
Why would it be jif

As someone else said, there used to be a kitchen cleaer called Jif that's now called Cif.
I also think MySQL is pronounced My Ess Que Ell, but .jpg as Jay Peg, but that might be because of the alternate extension .jpeg.
It's weird though, because thinking about it, I would pronounce the World of Warcraft abbreviation WoW, as the word wow. Same with Call of Duty, I would pronounce the abbreviation CoD as the word cod, with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, MoH:AA I would pronounce it Mo Har.
