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Pronunciation Guide Poster (Patreon)

Published:
2015-09-28 20:51:10
Edited:
2015-09-28 22:07:16
Imported:
2021-03

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Anonymous

Love this!

Anonymous

Lol gonna have to send this to my friends

Anonymous

Well, Captain! I have to disagree with you. Wait, what's this...? "Because inventing a thing doesn't give you dominion over how language works."??? He's never really been accused of that. Also, small problem, the IEEE conference generally agreed with him on this (perceived at the time as) inconsequential thing. Call it whatever YOU want, no reasonable person is going to stop you, but I actually came here to donate, not be told semantically that you think I'm wrong because of [fuzzy explanation and default usage of letters]. By the way, I'm an English major with a focus on linguistics, and I'm telling you right now it doesn't make a shit of difference how you say it. So if you're going to patronize (patreonize? hah!) me just for visiting your page, I don't think I'll be making a monthly donation. I would advise your team to stick to topics they're good with, like film editing, and skip bullshit debate.

Anonymous

What about words like general and gigantic? Both could potentially be correct.

Anonymous
>>1882602

"GIF" is not a word, its an acronym. For Graphics Interchange Format. Graphics is a hard "G", therefor GIF should either be pronounced GEE EYE EFF or GIF like GIVE or GILLS. This is not always true however, so default to similarly spelt/used words. Look at Gift for example. Its just GIF with a T. Hard G. Most one-syllable words that start with G have a hard G (not an exhaustive list): Gab. Gad. Gag. Gal. Gam. Gap. Gas. Gay. Get. Gig. Gill. Gimp. Gird. Girl. Git. Give. Go. Goal. Gob. God. Gone. Gore. Got. Guide. Guild. Guilt. Gull. Gulp. Gum. Gun. Gust. Gut. Guy. What about Gin, Gem, Gym, Geo, and Gel? Gin is not a good counterexample because it’s a drink derived from juniper berries, so its name is from the Dutch jenever for “juniper”. Gem comes from the Latin gemma for “jewel”. As for the other words, they are abbreviations of larger words, so they inherited their pronunciations.

Anonymous

My favourite is still "jaive"

Anonymous

I'm Hungarian and we pronounce everything as they are written using always-the-same letters (it just so happens that G is a "hard G" here as well). And so i find it highly amusing how English people go on about these stupid issues.

Anonymous

Came in to become a patron until I saw this. 😐

Anonymous

Follow me please ❤️

Anonymous

I suppose you say "kissk" for CISC chips? If you say "sisk," you have some explaining to do. - The man whose name is often spelled 'Geoff,' as in "Gee Off."

GooGhoul

So like with a "Zhy" sound?

Anonymous

Thank you!!

Brian Roy

I think this might be going up on the wall in my office.

Christopher G

general genial gentle germ gym giant gif

CaptainDisillusion
>>837947

All those examples are "open" syllables and the only closed one (gym) has to use a "y" to modify the "g". You wouldn't "gim" with a [dzh], would you? :P

Anonymous

The vast majority of "g" words have the hard-g sound. GET over it. Hard GIF FTW!

Anonymous

OK, you -could- have had a point... If we were talking about a language that had consistent rules about how to pronounce words. But the thing is, English doesn't have pronounciation rules. It just doesn't. It has —and there are days when I think even the following description is being generous— loose guidelines. English is a mix-up of phonetic letters and hieroglyphs; when you see a new word, you can never be sure how it's pronounced until you hear it. And as such, if the inventor of the word says that it's pronounced "jiff", then that's fine by me. Now, I'll be honest, I'm using a hard G myself, but it's not because of any imaginary rules; it's simply what I think that this particular words seems like a hard G is what sounds best. But I didn't invent it, so I'll happily defer to the inventor.

Anonymous
>>837989

"it's simply what I think that this particular words seems like a hard G is what sounds best." Yeah, so that's the guideline that makes the inventor wrong.

Anonymous

Potayto, potahto. It's fine to have multiple pronunciations of a word. I mean, how do you pronounce "gigabyte"? Unless you're Doc Brown, I bet Merriam-Webster disagrees with you: <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gigabyte" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gigabyte</a> But that's fine! Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. It's society that determines how words are pronounced, and as long as we agree to the point of being able to understand what ideas we're trying to convey, it ain't no problem. Cyclic drift allows language to ebb and flow; to adapt and evolve. It reminds me of how Ted Mosby so often pointed out that it's pronounced (and spelled) encyclopædia.