Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF.

From	"Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF.
Date	2016-08-30 18:20 +0100
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 04:05:45 +0100, The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 08/29/2016 01:59 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>> On 8/29/2016 15:37, Rich wrote:
>>> Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 8/29/2016 08:09, Ian McCall wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That's all technical. GIF is in resurgence, because it's an actual
>>>>> cultural thing now. My kids know what a GIF is (even if they can't
>>>>> believe the correct pronunciation),
>>>>
>>>> Never thought about the pronunciation--I wonder of I sound like a
>>>> dunce--would be a shame because I met the man* that invented the
>>>> algorithm--attended several engineering-grade lectures on how it  
>>>> worked
>>>> (in a magnetic tape context).
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Pronunciation
>>
>> "Steve Wilhite says that the intended pronunciation deliberately echoes
>> the American peanut butter brand Jif, ..."
>

In English (UK), we had a 2 products spelt Jif, that was
a) a lemon concentrate for food (cake) use, and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXaZ8ntStq0

b) a domestic cleaning product (that may or may not have smelled of lemons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUaMiwwyMPU
this b) product got renamed Cif, pronounced Syph, because Europe. Oh how  
we laughed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B1NywAob_c
just read the excitement in his face!

> Then he should have spelled it properly.  Believe it or not, there are  
> actual rules that actually work.
>
>> Didn't know, but that is exactly what I described, in the unlamented but
>> departed text.
>
>
>


-- 
Bah, and indeed, Humbug

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The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-24 10:32 +0000
  Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-08-24 14:32 +0100
    Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-24 16:39 +0000
    Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-08-25 01:29 +0000
      Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Antoine Delatour <bin.bin1@live.fr> - 2016-08-27 13:55 +0200
        Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-08-27 14:42 +0100
        Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-08-27 19:56 +0000
          Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2016-08-29 14:09 +0100
            Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 15:33 -0500
              Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-29 20:37 +0000
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 15:59 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 20:05 -0700
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-08-30 10:16 +0000
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-08-30 18:20 +0100
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-30 19:59 +0200
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-30 20:03 +0200
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 20:38 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-31 12:35 +0200
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2016-08-31 19:03 +0100
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-31 22:11 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-09-01 09:21 +0300
              Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 15:44 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-08-29 20:24 -0400
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Zed <zed@blah.invalid> - 2016-08-30 11:19 +0000
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-30 20:04 +0200

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