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GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012
mikejuk writes "GIF started out as a humble acronym 25 years ago, entered common parlance as the format used for web graphics and now achieves fame as a verb by becoming Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year 2012. GIF as a noun has always been an all-capital letter noun. Becoming a verb has caused problems concerning the use of capital and lower case letters. The common form is to keep the noun in caps and add the verbal endings in lower case — as in GIFed,GIFing), However, an all lower-case spelling with the f duplicated (giffed, giffing) is also being used."
Silly you, we had to wait 'till all patents on it expired.
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I thought gifs couldn't be fun until I saw this: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdqahveJp01qdlh1io1_400.gif
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Yeah, GIF was so '89... or maybe it was '89a...
No, it make sense, because it's the Jiraffics Interchange Format.
I read the internet for the articles.
YES! Now I can say "jif" and NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! The world shall soon be mine!
Some geeks wanted a way to make glyphs
They named their new standard GIF
Now the formats obsolete
But tweeting the word is l33t
And real dweebs continue to use TIFF
Silence is a state of mime.
I say GIZ would be a nice format for zlibbed gif. it would also ease the use as a verb.
What's going to be Word of the Year for 2013? "RealPlayer"?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, not Light Amplification by Ztimulated Emission of Radiation. Therefore the 's' in laser is unvoiced and should be pronounced "lay-sir" not "lay-zer." Actually, no, that's still not right. The A in Amplification is a short A not a long one, so the word should be pronounced "lah-sir." But wait, the E in emission is long, so it should actually be "lah-seer."
That's why one always uses finger quotes when referring to a device that I call a "Layzer".