If you say it any other way you're wrong

The letter G is obviously pronounced like in the word: "gigantic".

Or maybe like in the word "garage"
- Pronouncing it as "gif" is wrong on so many levels...
I'd thought it's pronounced like in the word 'graphic'.
- Oh, my "joke" was that there's two G's in gigantic and it's two different sounds.
- Reminiscent of the Spielberg dinosaur hit movie "Graphic Park".

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

In English the correct way to pronounce something is the way that will most reliably communicate your intended meaning to your intended audience without unintended ambiguity or distraction.

Since my intention is usually to communicate my superior knowledge of trivia and/or to stir shit up, I pronounce it with a soft g.

"ghif" or "hif"
"In English the correct way to pronounce something is the way that will most reliably communicate your intended meaning to your intended audience without unintended ambiguity or distraction."
This is simply untrue. There's this thing called phonics, and dictionaries.
However, it is actually pronounced Jif so I agree with that part of your comment.
- TONIGHT: Prescriptivists vs Descriptivists
  Let's have a good, clean fight!
- Phonics and dictionaries are very useful tools to help a person understand which pronunciations are likely to communicate what they intend.
  But the best way to pronounce Prague (Prog, Prag, or Praha) depends on who you're talking to.

I heard then both say it the right way in my head so there

Piss off everyone: Dutch pronunciation. The G sounds like you're ripping up a newspaper.

Chif...
Hah! Reminds me of the German word Flugzeugträger... if spoken in a cologne accent the three Gs will all be pronounced differently and none of them actually like G.
Fluchzeuschträjer.
- I'll take your word for it, I'm pretty sure my German sounds too much like Standard German, and I don't really have a comparison with Cologne German...

I don't gif a fuck.

I use PNG or MP4 instead.

Is it also soft G in PNG? So it's PNJ?

PNG rhymes with
So is it one representative or the entirety of Papua New Guinea that handles it?
- Those images can get large, you need a whole country to till, and rotate the crop.

Silent g is best g

Relevant (not xkcd)

I think this is how it's pronounced:

When will Lemmy support the gif format?

What do you mean?
- animated pictures

Your wrong, it's pronounced greg

After all these memes, I unironically pronounce it "gif" now.

I watched that movie last night

My kids learned in school today that it's a soft g if it's followed by e, i, or y. I don't even know what to say.

Right. Jif.

Wrong. It's graphics not jraphics
- Jraphic Park.
- How do you pronounce Gin?
- See, I knew you could spell.
  Not great at pronunciation, though.

The creator said its jif. That's the end of the discussion.

The inventor of corn flakes said it would stop masturbation.
The inventor of Vaseline ate the shit.
Just because you made something, doesn't make you right about everything to do with that thing.
- You do get to name it. That's a good point.
- Doesnt matter what the creator used it for. We still call them Corn Flakes and Vaseline. Thank you for proving my point.
- It's widely recognized that you get to name it tho.
  Nice try with the fallacious comparisons.
- This definitely happens with locals and taprooms. There's always an additional name, or 2, or 3.
- I did know about the inventor of corn flakes from drunk history, but I did not know about the inventor of Vaseline eating. What I hope you're talking about is Vaseline and not poop.
  Where did you hear that? I believe it. I'm just curious how you came across this information.
The creator can swallow my jif, it's gif.
- Willful ignorance will not serve you in life.
Jif goes on toast. I'm going to say Gif and neither you nor the creator can stop me.
- The tag line offered by the creator when they created the format was "choosey image users choose gif".
  It's supposed to be pronounced like the peanut butter.
  You're right about one thing, though. We definitely can't stop you from being completely wrong.
It stands for Graphics Interchange Format not Jraphics Interchange Format.
Creator wrong, yo.
- Giraffe.
- Curious what you think the correct pronunciation of MP3 is. MPEG3? MPEGL3?
- Acronyms don't have to be pronounced the way their constituents are pronounced. Unless you're going to walk around saying "Puh-Thyoos" instead of POTUS, your statement is completely irrelevant to this discussion.
  The creator can't be wrong, they created it. They get to name it. Not you.
Do you call it Velcro, or Hook and Loop fasteners?
The Velcro Company created it and wants people to stop using their company name to describe it. Guessing you (along with everyone else) still calls it Velcro and will continue to do so regardless of what the creator thinks.
- Yes. Because I don't give a shit what Velcro thinks.
But it's just an abbreviaton. The creator's wrong. That's the end of the dicussion.
That settles it. It's pronounced Yiff.
Okay, be honest here. You're the creator, right?