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616 points bluedel | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.432s | source
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369548684892826 ◴[25 Jun 25 12:06 UTC] No.44376322[source]▶
A fun fact about PNG, the correct pronunciation is defined in the specification

> PNG is pronounced “ping”

See the end of Section 1 [0]

0: https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png.pdf

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dspillett ◴[25 Jun 25 12:15 UTC] No.44376393[source]▶
Because the creator of gifs telling the world how he pronounced it made such a huge difference :)

Not sure I'll bother to reprogram myself from “png”, “pung”, or “pee-enn-gee”.

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LocalH ◴[25 Jun 25 13:23 UTC] No.44377049[source]▶
I've said "jif" for almost 40 years, and I'm not stopping anytime soon.

Hard-g is wrong, and those who use it are showing they have zero respect for others when they don't have to.

It's the tech equivalent to the shopping cart problem. What do you do when there is no incentive one way or the other? Do you do the right thing, or do you disrespect others?

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i80and ◴[25 Jun 25 14:11 UTC] No.44377569[source]▶
Is this a bit?
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1. LocalH ◴[25 Jun 25 14:15 UTC] No.44377600[source]▶
Absolutely not. See my response to your sibling comment. Choosy nerds choose "GIF".
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2. rhet0rica ◴[25 Jun 25 22:06 UTC] No.44382229[source]▶
Unfortunately for your crusade, the soft-G pronunciation has essentially been typo-squatted since before typo-squatting was a thing.

https://file.org/extension/jif

https://fileinfo.com/extension/jiff

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4rirr8/til_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#JPEG_files