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why is it always furries rule (mander.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That is not how acronyms work tho.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It kinda is. Unless you have a REALLY good reason not to, you pronounce the letters in the same way as you would if you were saying the whole word.

There is no such reason in this case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No it isn't, you pronounce an acronym as if it was its own word. The A and O in NATO are pronounced nothing like the ones in Atlantic and Organisation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Its own word starting with the same letter variant as the first component word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Gif stands for "graphics interchange format", or a graphics card. You don't call it a jraphics card or a yraphics card.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Joint Photographic Expert Group. Do you pronounce the image format Jfeg?

I agree it's hard g gif, but your logic is flawed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Scuba, and laser are other examples where you're wrong