Afraid To Ask Andy

The inventor says it was intended to be call "Jif" - like the peanut butter. Though I've been laughed at for pronouncing it that way. So now I just say Graphics Interchange Format and laugh at them ;)

I've only been online since Nov,13, 2014 - total ludite.
Some computer programmer I knew kept snickering when I pronounced,"memes," as "meems," saying that "mehmehs" was correct.
"Mehmehs" finally became ingrained until someone told me earlier this year that it was "Meems"

What a jerk.

Sounds familiar. My brother always said Me-Mes. I always said it like Beams= "Memes". I've finally won the battle. Really the spelling of the stuff is off, but that's the tech world for you. :)

I was showing my sister the funny memes and threads on this site when she noticed I was mispronouncing it. She even Googled it to make sure she had it right.

I haven't spoken in awhile to the one who intentionally steered me wrong, so I can't find out why. It was over an extended amount of time she did this, not like just pulling my leg for a day.

Oh, well, haha

This article and the comments are amusing. https://www.wikihow.com/Pronounce-Meme
:)

On the other hand i choose to go scheme to scheming/meme to meming! Lol Thing is i just assumed and figured why change it? Someone said memeing sounds like a cat dying.

;)

Lol :D

If he says it's jiff it's not like there isn't gin and giraffe! You invent somethin' you oughta have at least some say! :D

I recognise that the council has made a decision, but as it is a stupid ass decision, I will expect to ignore it.

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It really doesn't matter to me. I call it "gift" without the "t." Sounds better to me.

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If you pronounce it "Jif" Then you are actually talking about a totally different graphic file.

OOOOH, BURN!!!!

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It's simple: you don't pronounce gigabyte like 'jiga-byte', you don't pronounce gift like 'jift', therefore you don't pronounce gift like 'jif'. Also, gif stands for 'Graphics Interface Format', not pissing 'Jraphics Interface Format'.

Jying and I decided it was best to just call them a guhjiffy. LOL, that's how I started tagging all of them.

just like your "gif"

Lol

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