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The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.

Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, chiming in on the pronunciation of the word. (As everyone knows, choosy memes choose “jif.”) Wilhite, a former CompuServe employee, created the format in 1987 and is to receive an award for his creation tonight.  (via shortformblog)

I say it with a hard ‘G’ because 20 years ago when I started messing with GIFs there was no one to tell me how to pronounce it correctly. I chose the most logical pronunciation and went with it. When you get used to saying something a certain way for 20 years… that’s pretty much how you are going to say it no matter how incorrect someone tells you it is.

It’s like someone trying to tell you “Sun” is actually pronounced wombatnards. It’s going to take an awful lot of effort to train your brain to say “I got a really bad wombatnardsburn today.  I should have used more wombatnardsblock.”

Hard G 4 life #YOLO

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adamusprime:

one time i was at a party with a kid named jesus and he was supposed to bring a bottle but he forgot it so he went back home to get it and when he got back to the party it was hailed as the second coming of jesus

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frezned:

Seriously though people pooping in their pants over “Yahoo’s gonna destroy Tumblr now” as though there wasn’t already a comical amount of hate towards the developers.

Like, last week, I saw a photoset of the new “share directly via email” feature attached to a fail gif

and the whole Fan Mail thing

and making you unable to reblog yourself

and the fact that you gotta jump through all these hoops now to avoid greyboxing in anything but text posts

and putting ads in the app

like if we backdated the Yahoo purchase by a year all of the above things would be totally denounced as Yahoo ruining Tumblr but come on people

introducing dumb new features nobody needs or crippling cool features that everyone uses is business as usual