• WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Looks like the Jif crowds downvote bombing, yikes.

    So I’m upvoting everyone, let’s try and keep this civil and downvotes out of this! Both sides are technically correct, correcting each other is divisive and playing into trolling.

    • Pegajace@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I just want the “hard-g because graphical” crowd to really commit to the bit and start insisting that JPEG be pronounced “jay-feg” because of “photographic.”

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      1 year ago

      Honestly who cares at the end of the day, even if one is technically correct enough people pronounce it the “wrong” way that it’s like trying to unpop a baloon

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      1 year ago

      lol no they aren’t both correct. The creator of the format decides and did decide, it’s pronounced like a J just like the peanut butter they did a collaboration with because it’s pronounced just like that. There’s no debate, just trolling.

      • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        just because someone demonstrated intelligence and efficacy in a specific field does not make them an appropriate authority on other shit.

        herman cain, for instance, was a very talented neurosurgeon but still such a fucking moron he literally got his own stupid ass killed through covid denialism.

        this is also why we should still call it twitter no mattter what a dipshit like elon musk wants

        people who have, on paper, a “right” to assign the name or title to something can be wrong, and this is one such case.

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          1 year ago

          If you say so, Cathy. That’s your new name by the way, your parents were clearly wrong because reasons, and Cathy is easier to write so that’s you now.

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            1 year ago

            Ironically more fitting than my legal name :p

            Almost every person who was assigned the same legal name by their parents, I ended up hating their guts, but I’ve never met a Cathy I didn’t like.

            If there becomes an etymological precedent, such as someone actually accurately guessing WHY Cathy would serve greater utility as my name than my legally assigned-at-birth one, I’ll introduce myself to people even outside this thread as Cathy, and furthermore explain why if they actually want to hear it.

            As for this comment thread, hi y’all my name is Cathy. At least, to this person it is. I’ll recognize when they call me Cathy, though.