Is is "G"IF ir "J"IF... you be the Judge

Seems like this is an ancient hot debate

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The C|net / news.com hosted esoterica blog has decided to make a foray into one of the longest standing debates in the history of computing. Hold on to your hats people, and get ready to hotly contest whether it is GIF with a hard G or JIF with a soft G. You be the judge, you decide, the public awaits your professional opinion.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
JIF is peanut butter! 
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just never use a .gif cause I don't know which is the right way to say it.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I jenerally don't jive a rip as to whether it's jif or gif. Jiven the right set of jeneralities, I use gifs for jenerally all my animations that I guxstasuppose with Gasc animastion shop. I vajuely remember some jreat joals that I said I would jet to that had to do with this jenre of Gifs. Yet, it is joing to be a real jas gust fijuring out if I jot the ability to jo anywhere at all, jiven the jreat gob it turns out to be. I feel like I've run the jauntlet every time I jive it a jo.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
...I'm just goshin ya, josh darnit.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This debate has been known to destroy cities. You should be ashamed Sembetu.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's gust a govial gib.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ok, I'm done, I juess.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jo cool your gets!
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The debate, actually, is a guff.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Whew, I think I should drink some water...

This debate has been known to destroy cities. You should be ashamed Sembetu.


Look, I didn't invent the wheel, I just showed it to the next ape... (cue 'Thus Spake Zarthustra')...

I mean, I think it should be well, and officially established. I kind of get tired of hearing people refer to them as jif's, or saying "dot jay pee jee" instead of jpeg when they see a .jpg, or saying "pee en jee" instead of ping.

I am reading a book now by Robert Bringhurst called 'The Elements of Typographical Style', and in it Mr Bringhurst states that once an abbreviation has entered common vernacular and is recognized in common speech, it ceases to be an abbreviation, and that goes for acronyms as well. Thus, the establishment of these naming conventions is relevant if only to provide structure to our common vernacular and to avoid confusion. For instance:

JIF is peanut butter


Quite valid if you ask me, and were there stricter adherance to the conept of formalizing rules regarding the adoption of acronyms and abbreviations into common language, there would be less words (English Language specifically), which are so easily obfuscated. Obviously, if I say I would like "jif" on my sandwich, nobody would think that I want a printed 256 color image with transparency capability added to my sandwich, but in truth, nobody should even have to have that bridge crossed for them.

Sembetu
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I jenerally don't jive a rip as to whether it's jif or gif. Jiven the right set of jeneralities, I use gifs for jenerally all my animations that I guxstasuppose with Gasc animastion shop. I vajuely remember some jreat joals that I said I would jet to that had to do with this jenre of Gifs. Yet, it is joing to be a real jas gust fijuring out if I jot the ability to jo anywhere at all, jiven the jreat gob it turns out to be. I feel like I've run the jauntlet every time I jive it a jo.



lol
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've always called it Gif (hard G). JPG, is J-Peg, BMP is bitmap, but for some reason, I've never called PNG, ping.... it's P-N-G, in my head. TGA, is T-G-A.... not t'ga, or targa
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
for you..., wich one is the best? .gif or .jif? because in my opinion i prefer GIF...

imagine if right now we change the name to .jif!!!! it would be a little bit confused
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've always called it Gif (hard G). JPG, is J-Peg, BMP is bitmap, but for some reason, I've never called PNG, ping.... it's P-N-G, in my head. TGA, is T-G-A.... not t'ga, or targa


Exactly my point and why we need to seek fromalization of the method for adopting such nomenclatures into our collective vernacular. In my head it, too, is P-N-G, but for the sake of vernacular purposes, it is easier to refer to it as a ping, or a targa, (my opinion), I would just suggest that adopting a formal structure would prevent confusion when referring to a filename versus a nomenclature.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Might it be pronounced "h" in Spanish?

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Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There's alway one, isn't there...
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Now here this...The "G" stands for "graphic" which is a hard G! therefore, it must be a hard "gif". Now, that and $.95 will get you a cup of coffee!
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good logic Reppiks. I guess that's the end of that.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I guess that's the end of that.


You would let lojic higack a jood discussion?
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Graphics Interchange Format". You dont spell graphics with a "J". "Jraphics"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whatever!! I say "G"IF!

.... it's P-N-G, in my head. TGA, is T-G-A.... not t'ga, or targa [quote/]

PNG is P-N-G but I prefer targa over T-G-A.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ping, Gif, J-peg, bitmap, T-G-A, and Chicken pot, Chicken pot, Chicken pot pie.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Graphics Interchange Format"

Dead on. Although at one time I seem to remember it as "Compuserve Graphic Interchange Format"
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Dead on. Although at one time I seem to remember it as "Compuserve Graphic Interchange Format"


That's how it reads on my 'puter, too. ...So it's a CGIF, pronounced KGiff
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Still have a copy of the little ring binder guide for CIM v1.0
(Compuserve Information Manager)definetly the king of late 80's BBS services. I kept my account right up to the day AOL bought them out. For you youngsters....I used to pay $22.50 US per hour for 300 baud access. Unbelieveable the way things have developed.