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Re: As if the GIF-wars weren't bad enough.

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:20 this Thursday (GMT):
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> Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
> you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
> takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
> says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
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> Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
> it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
> it that much sweeter ;-P
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> * https://x.com/romero/status/1793226182889967859


I kinda go back and forth on it.. tho I really go back and forth on a
lot of word pronunciation.
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