X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4c937612bafa20dd X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-28 15:41:37 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!cmcl2!is2.NYU.EDU!vqp5086 From: vqp5086@is2.nyu.edu (Vasilios Pilarinos) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR! Date: 28 Dec 1994 18:29:12 GMT Organization: New York University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3dsapo$5j1@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> References: <3dibmt$p4k@nic-nac.csu.net> <3dk8o4$gmn@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: is2.nyu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Timmy (tshaynes@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote: : To answer your first question: because it's wrong. To answer your second, : to keep newbies from sounding like newbies. Third: it's a widely used : word, and one would hope that the majority of users would get it right. : GIF probably won't be used "a few years" down the road, but it's been around : for 8 years now, and certainly seems pretty prevalent. Let's try and : say it properly, shall we? Properly? It's an acronym, for Chrissakes. Acronyms are supposed to sound like the words they represent, regardless of what the inventor of the acronym says. If I start an acronym GOL and pronounced it TURKEY, would you pronounce it turkey as well just because I say so? -- (* _____ __ _ __ ___ : Vasilios Pilarinos : 'If only you knew *) (* |___\ V /| '_ \|___| : Mail: vqp5086@is2.nyu.edu : the things I have *) (* \_(_) .__(_) : Information Systems Major : seen in the dark- *) (* |_| : - Class of 1997 - : ness of night...' *)