Portals already violate the laws of thermodynamics. We’re arguing about whether gravity would work here.

English doesn’t have rules, it has exceptions, and there are absolutely no rules for acronyms besides needing to be said as a word, so no there is no “saner way” than the actual name.

Here’s the thing though, you can pronounce it however you like, you’ll just be wrong.

Kick em in the fucking balls for fucks sake.

The gravity is going down parallel to the portal opening though, so both portals have the same gravity direction, the only thing speeding you up is the slide

But that’s not how “toxic”ism works. Like you’re not a toxic person if you do some toxic things some of the time. You’re a toxic person if you do it all the time or the majority of the time. Everyone says sexuality is a scale, that doesn’t mean you’re straight if you’re not 100% gay. There are some parts of you that do one thing, but you’re to other side of the scale.

There’s not a rule, it’s just a “sounds correct”. Because English doesn’t have rules, it has exceptions.

Cambridge even uses the word “normally” lol. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order

And here’s a fun stackexchange link where people argue about the order (since there isn’t a rule, it’s all made up). https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1155/what-is-the-rule-for-adjective-order

One good quote from that link:

@cori - the fascinating linguistic point is that native speakers will have subconsciously inferred a rule like this without it ever being stated. The “rule” is really an observation of what they do. All languages and dialects consist of such unconscious rules. – Nathan Long Commented Apr 16, 2013 at 15:25

And absolutely none of that applies to proper nouns, especially not completely made up ones. The public doesn’t get to decide how to pronounce my name, I do. Same for any proper noun.

Not for proper nouns they don’t. Just because you pronounce my name taylor doesn’t mean you’re right. I get to decide how to pronounce my name, not you.

Well good luck! Hope you find some gems in there!!!

You should post that video then because that flash is coming directly from the end of the barrel.

That’s just the worst though. Why not just make it so we can hear the damn movie? I don’t want to be reading subtitles the entire film. I want to be watching the damn movie!

I mean, I love SNL but I’d never in a million years spend time watching any of the previous seasons again. A large part of SNL isn’t just sketch comedy, but weekly news. So many of the skits need a serious amount of context that I don’t think you could ever get with a rewatch. You’d need to be googling every single line of dialogue.

lol yeah. I agree with that too.

This is so heartwarming. I wish it weren’t necessary but thank you for being such a good person

GIF is an acronym first and foremost. Acronyms are invented by their creators who get to decide the pronunciation. No one is arguing that NASA, LASER, RADAR, MRSA, etc. are pronounced any differently because they don’t follow ‘English language rules’.

I knew someone with the initials A.S.S. They didn’t go by that, they went by Ace. They came up with that because their initials reminded them of it and they liked it better. Are you instead going to call them Ass because you know that’s what their initials spell, even though you know that isn’t the name they want to go by?

The pronunciation is devoid of the spelling with acronyms. It never matters, and is always decided by the creator. With GIF they chose the pronunciation for several reasons:

• it’s a pun meant to sell a product.
• products are easier to sell when they’re memorable. Back in the early days of computing you had to work hard to spread what you’d done over what someone else had done
• it’s fast, like jiffy
• they wanted to hitchhike off of the success of the peanut butter brand

Notably it’s not one person that is deciding this pronunciation, though Steve was the inventor, the entire CompuServe company agreed on the pronunciation. It was written in the manual, and even the creators of .png agreed with the pronunciation (https://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngintro.html)

Here is a picture from CompuServe’s magazine showing the correct pronunciation (it’s a product, it has a correct pronunciation) (you can read the entire article here )

Another fun fact

CompuServe used to distribute a graphics display program called CompuShow. In the documentation for version 8.33 in the FAQ section, it states:

The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), pronounced “JIF”, was designed by CompuServe and the official specification released in June of 1987.

The image below is an example GIF that came with CompuShow:

It is a picture of CompuShow’s author, Bob Berry. He used some of the then-new features of the GIF89 format to display text on top of graphics. One of the lines he entered in the text states:

Oh, incidentally, it’s pronounced “JIF”

You can’t see this text within a web browser, but if you save this image and load it up in GIF Construction Set or another animated GIF89 editor, you can see the comment for yourself. Drag and View also displays this text, but kind of screwed up. For further proof from Bob Berry, check this out.

Steven O’Neill writes: Another way to get the JIF line out of Bob Berry using standard Unix tools:

~>curl https://www.olsenhome.com/gif/BOB_89A.GIF | strings | grep JIF
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time % Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent Left  Speed
100 37062  100 37062    0     0  69595      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  166k
|s,Oh, incidentally, it'spronounced "JIF"

fun quote about the subject:

Anyone who pronounces “GIF” with a hard G simply does not understand computer programmers (and any programmers who still insist on this silly pronunciation are simply unfit). No decent coder would pass up an opportunity to inflict a horrid pun on the world. And seeing as peanut butter is one of the principle three programmer foods (the other two being Pepsi and nacho cheese Doritos), the reference is immediately obvious.

A- prefix means “without”.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a-

Well they’re all “correct”. They just don’t sound right. Like saying “the red, big apple” instead of “the big, red apple”.

Who dat?

It’s also completely disingenuous. Every country needs customs and immigration enforcement. Just from a perspective of preventing transmission of plants and animals that do not belong in other countries. So yeah if travel increases then the budget for things travel related will increase as well. Pretending like what Trump is doing now with the Gestapo is anything similar to funding the department in previous years is so disingenuous as to be essentially a lie.

Master bedroom/bathroom with a cat or dog water bowl? A WaterPik? A fish tank? A cleaning system for a fish tank (uses suction from faucet to filter the gravel). A cup? Watering small plants? A cactus you don’t want to overwater. Rinsing out a soap bottle. Rinsing out your toothbrush quietly so you don’t wake your wife. Humidifier.