God of War Dev Sends Social Media GIF Masters a Special Thank You

Not keen on Cory's "JIF" pronunciation, mind.

Slow news day already??

Edit: just kidding, lighten up!

@Neolit I'm not saying there's a right or wrong way to say that, but I see it the same way you don't pronounce the "T" in "POTUS" as it is pronounced in "the". And yeah, I know that sound is the combination of two letters, but still, the two sounds conveyed by the "T" differ between the two words.

An acronym is a different word from the ones that make it up, and in a non-transparent language such as English it sure gets tricky to draw the line, but I'd say treat it like a new word with its pronunciation.

As I said at the beginning, I don't think there's a right or a wrong: words, for better or for worse, are made what they are by its usage and that is subject to change over time. By the standards words are written in English, a lot of current pronunciations don't make any sense (especially coming from a transparent language) and would probably have been frowned upon a few centuries ago, when they were pronounced way closer to how they're written.

TL;DR: maybe in a century or two we'll all agree but for now there's no right or wrong, and in the meantime I stick to the way its creator pronounces it.

Edit: also I'm lazy and "Jif" is the way it sounds in my native language and I'm used to calling them that when speaking Italian.

I ve pronounced GIF like GIF.
The same way I've always said X.
I dont know why people get it wrong....😀

@Neolit should JPEGs be pronounced Jphegs then by the same logic.

I’ve always called them GIFs with a hard G sound anyway as it seems the more common vernacular.

@Neolit
Cory is a gem.
Edit
Oh that reminds me of the GEM in the 80s 🤔

@Neolit ok, next time I'll remind myself not to waste my time with pondered arguments, if all you can do is dismiss it that way.
Not sure what's unfunny, but surely it is funny that you didn't even get clvr right: it's "clover", not "clever".
See how easy and arbitrary it is to mess up pronunciations? 😉

@Neolit Who cares he did a nice thing.

I still call Cif, the household cleaning products, Jif, because I'm old school.

@Neolit

@ApostateMage That's what I always think of when it's pronounced that way.

@ApostateMage - I still call a Snickers a Marathon, I'm old as dirt.

I'm older than all of you. I still call Germany the Holy Roman Empire.

@Neolit if you say the GIF creators are pronouncing something wrong, you are either stubborn or have a lot of humour. I will depend on whether you pronounce the acronym as individual letters or as a word, and for the latter, nobody cares what the G stands for, it can be peonounced "JIF" just like a "jiraffe". Also the acronym PNG is pronounced "ping", which isn't logical either but that's the way it is

@Rhaoulos Just because you've turned a couple of words into an acronym, doesn't mean you get to decide how to pronounce it. What if Sony came out tomorrow and said that ''PS5'' should be pronounced as ''Pooh See Five''?

Thank you kratos.reason why i still play video games.best franchises ever and grand theft auto.word up son

@Matroska Now that’s funny.

You win the internet today. 😂

Some people after they heard that GIF pronunciation...

Its the word GIFT minus the T. I dont understood the issue with pronunciation

Loved God of War series. All of them. Keep them coming!

@Octane At least it would change from the past 20 years. We should start calling it Pooh-see five, or "Pee Essu Go" if Sony says it's the right pronunciation since it is a trademark Like Monster hunter XX, pronounced double cross and not "ex ex", even though you would read it "ex ex".

@Neolit I couldn't agree more. Also I pronounce it differently depending on the language I speak. If the JIF pronunciation bugs you, ask a french person to say "Game Gear", it'll make you physically sick.

@Rhaoulos I say "double ex", because I'm cool like that

@Neolit well it's it's hard to get humor in a comment, and yours wasn't explicit at all, so thank you for mocking me again for not understanding humor via text. How lowly I am.

@neolit now how are you pronouncing bourbon are we talking biscuits or drinks?

Sony Santa Monica have entered the debate

https://twitter.com/i/status/1225468337041203200