inventor GIF, Steve Wilhite, during the Webby Awards in New York, United States, this Tuesday (21) (Photo: Brad Barket / Invision / AP)
know that kind of revelation that comes to changing your life? One of them (the beloved world of internet) has surfaced on Tuesday (21) and gave the talk. Turns 26 (yes, 26 years!) Wrong to pronounce the name of the fantastic animated images from the web, the GIFs. Steve Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format while working for Compuserve in June 1987. On the evening of Tuesday, he was honored at the “Oscars of the Internet,” the Webby Awards, and made the big reveal (written in a GIF even displayed on the screen): “It’s pronounced JIF, not GIF.” Pããããã, that’s when you collide. Watch the big moment below:
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But not enough
the Father and Lord of GIFs give the word. On Twitter, the term “GIF” entered the trending topics worldwide, contrary to many people: “My God. GIF is pronucia JIF. I spent my whole life speaking wrong and probably will continue that way, “wrote @ SapVinicius.
GIFs represented a major milestone in the history of the internet. With the emergence of more advanced graphics technologies, however, they fell into disuse. In recent years, fashion has returned, and web remembered how fun to see animated images without giving a play on YouTube. In Brazilian Portuguese, the correct pronunciation is the same JIF with J sound, as in the word “giraffe”. To turn into a sound of G, it is necessary to put the letter U between G and I, as in “William”. But in English, according to the OED, the two pronunciations are acceptable. The goddess of the pronunciations, owner of the voice of Google Translate, reads “GIF” even in English, not “JIF”.
Difficult, right? And you will speak like?
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