• GandalftheBlack@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Well that makes no sense. If your view is that “it’s an acronym or it isn’t” then you pronounce it as individual letters or as a word. But the reality of language is much messier than arbitrary rules people come up with. If people pronounce it as if it’s a word in its own right, that means that’s how it works. Just as with laws of physics, if what we observe contradicts the rule, the rule was wrong.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        choosing to pronounce “gif” with a hard “g” is an arbitrary renunciation of the standards of the language.

        Right. That’s why people naturally started pronouncing it with a hard ‘g’ to begin with…