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[–] Phineaz@feddit.org 177 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Your choice of screen shot makes it look like a statement. Fortunately, you made the right choice.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fact that the cursor points at the correct pronunciation is purely by accident.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago (11 children)
[–] Pilon23@feddit.dk 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you guys won't get along we'll have to compromise and go with the g in 'rough'

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[–] Phineaz@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

Another good choice! Cheers to that!

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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 119 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] snooggums@piefed.world 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 week ago

It's a nice chord

[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what if its actually pronounced with the dutch g?

[–] staph@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is it the one where you pretend to deepthroat a frikandel?

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[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 88 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I can get behind this.

[–] fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 week ago
[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jo fuck yourself, you knew what you were doing with your example. Now I'm irrationally angry at half the people in this thread.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Man, honestly. I thought using GIF as an example would be a funny way to illustrate this genuinely cool feature. I expected some craziness but not at this level. People comment with passion, holy hell.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

I just thought throwing gasoline on the fire would make it become "wet fire", I had no idea what I was doing!

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another gift from Wikipedia.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 28 points 1 week ago

Don't you mean a jift?

[–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jraphical Interchange Format

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Self contained uunderwater breathing ahpparatus

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago
[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

This belongs in shitpost. Bravo on on kicking the hornet's nest.

We should find a solution everyone will hate. I suggest no more acronym and stick to initialism.

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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If the entire internet was replaced with just wikipedia i don't think I'd mind

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

good news! you can download the whole of wikipedia (minus the images) for a few gigs.

giggidy!

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G as in gif

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And it's @irish_link@lemmy.world with a steel chair!

[–] safesyrup@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thats pretty cool, thanks. I am having a hard time translating phonetic notation into sunds in my head :D

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[–] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Time to grab some popcorn and read the comments

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every day we stray further from Jod

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Uh, excuse me, "GOD" is actually an acronym for "Great Omniscient Deity", so it's actually pronounced /'paɪnæpl/.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't read IPA, but choose to believe that's pronounced 'pineapple'

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[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago
[–] wer2@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Of course guy is pronounced like juy.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun fact: in old English, /j/ (the sound in Yes) was written using a g (often written as ġ in modern old English transcriptions)

Make of that what you will

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

It's pronounced yiff, because its the most popular format for furry porn.

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