canon
It's pronounced sanon btw
From the original çanon of course
It’s pronounced source.
You mean the Sanon the Dork Lard?
One thing I learned recently is that if GIF shall be pronounced "GIF" like the G in Graphical, JPEG shall be pronounced "JFEG" like the P in Photography
Just droppin that in
Do I look like I know what a JFEG is?
I just want a picture of a gosh dang JFEGdog
J'feg
Fuck this, double standards ftw
Is it pronounced jilf then as well?
J'feg
My name is jgef
If it was JPhEG sure.
Would be the worst retroactive devaluation of a body of literary work since JK Rowling showed the world how she really is.
Orson Scott Card's gotta rank up there, too.
True
I really don't think JK Rowling revealed who she really was. I think she demonstrated what too much money does to someone.
I read that as "Yan-dolf".
I am not even making this up.
OK you fancy Dutch dude. What're ya gonna do now? Brag about bicycles and socialized medicine?!!! (He says, jealous af)
You mean yealous
It's clearly laurel-dolf
Nah, the "a"s are silent.
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I went looking for it, and apparently you’re right. He said “Jif”. He’s either trolling or being obstinate. People don’t see it that way, especially seeing as it’s the hard “G” from “Graphical” in the initialism. So he’s applying a pronunciation rule of soft G when followed with “i” when used in a word to an initialism - and acronyms aren’t words (noted: they can become treated as such).
GIF is not a word. So soft “g” when followed by “i” does not apply.
E: corrected to initialism, and now we have to debate if an initialism pronounced as an acronym should obey the soft G rule, or if it should be an exception. Exceptions do exist, so the soft G is not a hard rule.
The funny thing is that even though there are people on both sides dead set they are right, if they hear someone say the opposite pronunciation they still understand what the speaker is referring to. So there's absolutely no context lost, it's just preference, and I have a feeling given the age of the name GIF those preferences are very regional, as the internet had not become a national/international thing yet.
It's almost like there is no rule when pronouncing acronyms and people choose to pronounce them however sounds best to them. How do you pronounce the U in SCUBA? How do you pronounce the two As in NASA? The A in BASE jumping? The O in POG juice? The O in SONAR? The I in SIM card? The A in LASER? None of those are pronounced like the composite letters, so why is GIF so rigid?
That's dumb, It's "Graphics Interchange Format."
How do you pronounce the U in SCUBA? How do you pronounce the two As in NASA? The A in BASE jumping? The O in POG juice? The O in SONAR? The I in SIM card? The A in LASER?
Anyone who uses the argument that Graphical is pronounced with a hard G sound needs to think about how they pronounce other acronyms, like SCUBA, NASA, LASER, SONAR, POG, SIM... the list goes on.
I do say N(ay)SA to annoy people.
It's flattering that you think anybody knows what all of those acronyms actually stand for. I'm semi-certain of NASA, the rest could just be made up for all I know (as a non-native English speaker).
Kinda hard to forget SCUBA. Self contained underwater breathing apparatus
Yandalf
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The great Anglo-Saxon wizard, Ġandalf
comes back
Bilbo is gay!
dies
comes back
Nazgul are just men in dresses!
not canceled cause that's true
Sauron actually do shit but he's so powerful the shit disintegrated when it comes out.
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And Elrond is Hispanic elf
Guess we need to remake the trilogy.
Maybe this time they can put in some GOD DAMN TOM BOMBADIL
You sit the FUCK BACK DOWN, BOMBADIL! You won a Tolkien sweepstakes and got name dropped in the book, that's all!!!
It will have 1 hour 30 minutes of Sam Merry and Pippin argue about potaeto and potahtoe. And Sauron will spend his time mentioning all the genders and races and gods can't kill him while he got stabbed in his face.
Without the R???
i_understood_that_reference.jif
Gets back up, "also, his name is Jolam." Lies back down.
“And the dwarf’s name is Jimli.”
Ohh i see it's a geeraffe, a long necked animal.
And power ranger called down a guyan robot to fight guyan monster enemy.
He should also come out with some delicious spreads for toast, he could call them Jamdalf.
to be published in a limited gold embossed leather bound volume with 500 pages of commentary, March 2024
to be published in a limited gold embossed leather bound volume with 500 pages of commentary, March 2024
Tolkien fanatics: "Link?"
Also...link?
I mean... it might be $200 that I'll never justify spending. It might be entirely pointless and tarnishing professor Tolkien's legacy. But it's still going on my wishlist, yeh
ps did I mention it's illustrated by ALAN LEE
The genius Tolkien, ever generous, gestured for a round of gin martinis from his giant gentle giraffe. Over gentle murmurs from the crowd, I caught the gist of his speech: genuinely it’s pronounced Jandalf.
Jandalf the Drey.
I would watch that movie.
Yandalf the Yrey
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=Nrk8sqZfsgI
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Op doesn't know Frodo's real name is Froda. Tolkien changed it for modern ears.
Yep. And Samwise was Banazîr.
EDIT: Just did some more checking and, while Bilbo's name is actually Bilba, Frodo's name isn't Froda. It's Maura.
My whole life is a lie.
Do you pronounce jpeg as "jayfeg"?
No, "jaypej."
Juhpoogga.
No, zhepeJ... you know same G pronunciation as in JIF.
pronounces a proper noun differently than its creator then insisting he's the one who's wrong
Smh. I'd like to tell French people the way they pronounce their words is wrong too, wish me luck.
