{"id":18202,"date":"2013-05-22T23:32:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18202"},"modified":"2013-05-22T23:32:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:32:56","slug":"jif-not-gif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/22\/jif-not-gif\/","title":{"rendered":"JIF, not GIF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mashable reports<\/a> that Steve Wilhite, the inventor of GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), during the lifetime achievement ceremony insisted that it’s pronounced “JIF”, not “GIF”.<\/p>\n

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[rant mode on]<\/em>What?! \u00a0“GIF” is not “GIF, but “JIF”? \u00a0Non-sense! \u00a0It’s give, not jive. \u00a0Girls, not jirls. \u00a0Gift, not jift. \u00a0And even if he\u00a0believes\u00a0that that’s the correct way to pronounce it, how irresponsible is that to attract attention to this issue now? \u00a0It’s just like throwing a barrel of petrol into the\u00a0pronunciation\u00a0holy war flames of GNU, Gnome, Gimp, and other pillars of Open Source Software.[rant mode off]<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Mashable reports that Steve Wilhite, the inventor of GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), during the lifetime achievement ceremony insisted that it’s pronounced “JIF”, not “GIF”.   [rant mode on]What?! \u00a0“GIF” is not “GIF, but “JIF”? \u00a0Non-sense! \u00a0It’s give, not jive. \u00a0Girls, not jirls. \u00a0Gift, not jift. \u00a0And even if he\u00a0believes\u00a0that that’s the correct way to pronounce … Continue reading JIF, not GIF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[3181,3182,2418,243,2912,3183],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-file-formats","tag-gif","tag-humor","tag-language","tag-open-source","tag-steve-wilhite"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t