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The G stands for Jraphics
The format was originally designed to interchange animated palettised depictions of giraffes, so Giraffic Interchange Format made sense. They just changed the acronym when they realised that by storing different colours in the palette, you could depict things other than giraffes.
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It’s pronounced “emm-preg.”
Am I… Mpegante? Mpegananat?
It is called jiff tho?
Jif is a peanut butter brand
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Maximum cleaning
Minimum scrubbing
I’ll never have to buy toilet paper again!
Edit: Also, I like the taste of citrus so that’s nice too!
Except of course we did then and we do now. Too bad none of you ever looked at how G can be pronounced.
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No the overwhelming majority of kids think its pronounced that way. The majority of us who were around when it was written know how its pronounced. How do we know? We know because the guy who wrote it told us.
I first heard it in pronounced “jif” from a guy in my college dorm in the mid 90s. I’ve just pronounced it that way every since. Is it there a generation gap in how it’s pronounced? I do catch some flak from my kids about how I pronounce it.
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Okay Fetus but
Nope, try again.
The other guy told me it’s called X, but I still pronounce it Twitter.
Thank you for that pointless attempt at comparison. They never changed the name of gif nor the pronunciation of it.
I was around before gifs even existed. No one I knew ever pronounced it jif. It was always like gift. In fact, I never even heard any question of how it was pronounced well into the use of gifs.
Hey, not everyone was born to be a king.
I use KDE because I never want to have to worry about how to pronounce it. There is no ambiguity with KDE, it’s just K D E
I am still thoroughly confused whether I should call it KDE or Plasma or Plasma Desktop. Like, what is the difference?
KDE is the author, Plasma is the application. There is ambiguity since they don’t make more than one desktop environment - so all are good.
I’ve actually seen discussions online and met one person who said it’s “K-DE” (kay-dee), so it’s not a sure thing.
So now you’ll have to find something else, hehe.
You just got gnomed!
People who say guh -nome are the same sick psychos who pronounce GIF “Jiff”.
Knice to meat you
Found the KDE user!
And then I’m out there pronouncing it G-Nome…
I was hoping I wasn’t alone. I pronounced it genome for years before some neck beard took me to task for it. They also were mad at me for pronouncing CentOS like DOS (centahs rather than cent oh ess).
I also used to pronounce Gnome this way.
I’ll add I used to say “deb eye ann”, for Debian
And used to say “uh lie us”, for alias
I didn’t have a lot of people to talk about Linux with lol
Making a fork of GNOME called GGNOME fr
GG Normie
