X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9e51ecc1ea7bb41b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-31 06:57:35 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!ub!galileo.cc.rochester.edu!newstand.syr.edu!rodan.syr.edu!jgpoupor From: jgpoupor@rodan.syr.edu (Kilroy) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: GIF? Date: 31 Dec 1994 00:18:55 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Lines: 70 Message-ID: <3e281f$ir6@newstand.syr.edu> References: <3drrt2$4lq@Mars.mcs.com> <3dt0rk$l0i@crl3.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.syr.edu In article <3dt0rk$l0i@crl3.crl.com> sirdyst@crl.com (Josh Buchbinder) writes: >On 28 Dec 1994 08:14:57 -0600, Diki Shamlian Gust (dikig@MCS.COM) said: >:>Benjamin Ledsham (bledsham@shore.net) wrote: >:>: In article , inaba@primenet.com wrote: > >:>: > You can't trust anyone now adays! It doesn't make sense to be >:>: > pronounced 'jif'! Graphic is a hard G, why would you change it to >:>: > a soft G in the abreviation? > >:>: The "g" is pronounced as a "j" because it is followed by an "i" as in >:>: "giraffe" or "ginger". The same holds true if the "g" is followed by an >:>: "e" as in "gelatin" or "gem". There are exceptions, but this is the >:>: general rule. > >:>My suspicion is that it has nothing to do with the general rules of >:>pronunciation. (Or that "Graphic" is a hard "G".) I presume that >:>initially people just said "gee" "eye" "eff", and the more familiar >:>they became with it and the faster they said it, the more it elided >:>into "jif". > >I think the main problem, and a common one, is that you all are trying to >pronounce an acronym! You wouldn't say "Siyah", you say "C.I.A.". Just >because this particualy acronym happens to make a pronouncable word >doesn't mean that it should be pronounced, but if you are going to >pronounce it, it should be pronounced as it's SPELLED, completely >ignoring the original words that it is shortened from. > >That's what I think anyway. > -sd > > >-- >"Better weapons lead to better and better weapons, until the earth is a > grenade with the fuse burning." > -WSB The people in our area who speak of them pronounce them with a hard G. ObASCIIArt: _________________ ()(())) /YES,YES OH YES!!!\ |## ) | OH GOD I LOVE \ /_ | \ TO FUCK SHEEP!!!_/\\ |O ) \ *************************** / \ \___/ \ | If you love something, | | BAAAAAAH!| __| _\ | Let it go, | \ _________/ | / | | If it doesn't come back | || | | | | Hunt it down and kill it! | // | / /| *************************** **** ____----/ / | ****** *********** /_\_)______/ / *00 /|******************* | | *@ **|****************----| \ * - **/****************---(_) | **** ** ******* | // | | | | | | | // _ | | | | | | | /--( \__ |^|^| |^|^| \__________/ ____________________________________________________________________ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ --- All You Touch And All You See jgpoupor@mailbox.syr.edu ____ Is All Your Life Will Ever Be. (315) 689-7463 / \ I think, therefore I am confused! John G. Poupore | O O | Live Long And Prosper, for I shall do neither. \ || / All I can say is that my life is pretty plain |++| I like watching the puddles gather rain -- WARNING: If you're going to take drugs, DON'T TAKE MINE :)