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Started by mongers, April 28, 2013, 10:52:30 AM

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Baron von Schtinkenbutt


Razgovory

This is pretty good Giff

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mongers

 :whistle: in empty building.
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garbon

Quote from: mongers on May 05, 2013, 07:33:07 AM
:whistle: in empty building.

Hardly a surprise that there wasn't a flurry of posts when North America was sleeping in on Sunday morning. ;)
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Jaron

Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.
Winner of THE grumbler point.

sbr

Quote from: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.

Hard G.

A soft G is a J and that is peanut butter.

Jaron

That's how I've always said it.
Winner of THE grumbler point.

sbr


The Brain

Quote from: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.

No they are not.
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Eddie Teach

Quote from: The Brain on May 05, 2013, 02:17:24 PM
Quote from: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.

No they are not.

They are in Jaron's workplace and to anyone who doesn't mind sounding like a tech noob.

BTW, is it acceptable to pronounce SQL as "s-q-l" rather than Sequel? Seems I've heard people do that before.
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 05, 2013, 02:48:00 PM
BTW, is it acceptable to pronounce SQL as "s-q-l" rather than Sequel? Seems I've heard people do that before.

You can date how old a person is by what they call it.

mongers

To my mind, the hard G makes sense as using a soft G introduces confusion eg how do you spell it, is that as in the toilet cleaner etc. 
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

garbon

Quote from: sbr on May 05, 2013, 01:53:58 PM
Quote from: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.

Hard G.

A soft G is a J and that is peanut butter.

I've always said it like it is jif. Though thankfully that doesn't come up often.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Jaron

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 05, 2013, 02:48:00 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 05, 2013, 02:17:24 PM
Quote from: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.

No they are not.

They are in Jaron's workplace and to anyone who doesn't mind sounding like a tech noob.

BTW, is it acceptable to pronounce SQL as "s-q-l" rather than Sequel? Seems I've heard people do that before.

I don't say it like the peanut butter. I say it like gif (not jif). Most people I know say it that way, but the guy who created the format pronounces it like jif and a few people I work with say it like that.

We have a lot of little discussions like that. S-Q-L or Sequel, W-S-D-L or WSDL. The only one we all agree on is WYSIWYG. :P

Most of the developers I work with don't use letters but pronounce these things like a single word.
Winner of THE grumbler point.

Josephus

Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 05, 2013, 02:50:19 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 05, 2013, 02:48:00 PM
BTW, is it acceptable to pronounce SQL as "s-q-l" rather than Sequel? Seems I've heard people do that before.

You can date how old a person is by what they call it.

I say SQL. How old am I?

I'll make it easier...I don't even know what the fuck that is. A computer code language I guess?
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