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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."
Are they going to publish it with the incorrect pronunciation that "everyone" says is correct?
It's 25 years old. How can it be the word of this year?
Who even uses GIF anymore?
I prefer their UK word of the year: omnishambles.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/11/uk-word-of-the-year-2012/
It's been obsoleted by PNG for more thanlike 15 years now. They could just as well choose floppy.
Who cares? No one uses that. Do you use "thou" and "thy" and shit?
PNGed!
... at least its more contemporary
GIF is a word I use in writing, but never in speech. To this day, I honestly don't know if I should say "ghiff" or "jiff".
You are possibly thinking about TIFF.
I prefer to jaypayg my images.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
But... GIFs are so last century! There used to be a joke "beware of geeks bearing gifs" but not even geeks get it anymore.
Oxford, welcome to the nineties. You might want to check your PC clock. I think the battery died.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
People call it by it's extension and Dos only had 3 letter extensions.
No one uses that. Do you use "thou" and "thy" and shit?
Yes to the third one.
The issue with the verb form is not how to handle adding suffixes to an upper-case initialism, the issue is that people would thing do verb that noun in the first place. While I've heard lots of people talk about GIFs, I would get all GIFed if I actually heard someone verb "GIF." That's just GIFing stupid.
Seriously, does anyone do that?
I've never heard anyone use GIF except to describe an image that is a GIF because they are doing something with graphics. It isn't exactly a day to day word or something laymen use... random teens on Facebook would still have no idea what a GIF is.
Who cares? No one uses that. Do you use "thou" and "thy" and shit?
Of course, thou shit. Now get thy shit in order.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/GIF /jif, gif/
Pronunciation:
::twitch::
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Seriously, does anyone do that?
I can't say it has never happened but I've certainly never heard anyone use GIF as a verb and I'm old enough to remember when GIF images were a new thing. Never even occurred to me that anyone would use it as a verb.
Of course I resolutely refuse to use Google as a verb as well. Google is a company name and the activity I'm usually doing with their website is called "searching" which is a perfectly satisfactory verb that even works when using a website not made by Google.
Uses animated GIFS on Deadspin. MNG anyone?
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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.
What's the next word of the year? WYSIWYG?
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
Aren't you thinking of TIFF ?
Slipping shoelaces ?
If I'm reading this right, the word GIF has been around a long time, but it is "word of the year" because of the new usage, as a verb. I've never heard this usage, and I can't for the life of me figure out what it could mean. Does "to gif" mean "to convert an image to GIF format"? Does it mean "to capture an image in GIF format"? Neither one of these sounds like something that would be a very common usage, so I'm sure I'm missing something. What does this new verb mean?
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
First of all, you're not suppose to use the word you're describing in the definition, and here they defined it by using its noun form. Secondly, I believe it's a much larger offense to use the technology you're describing to make your announcement about the word, which they've clearly done by 'GIFing' the WOTY announcement. On top of that, I think I've seen far more clever words coined on the Unwords and Urban dictionaries this year.
Jif is a brand of lemon juice. Jif is also a brand of Peanut butter. I've always pronounced GIF with a hard G, as in giggling gizmo girth girls give gilded gizzards girdle girder gimmick gifts.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
What?
I mean, seriously, What?
This make no sense. None. No matter how I try to think about it. There is no reasoning I can think of that gives this any meaning whatsoever. No sense. None at all. /dev/null.
This is on the same level of sense as a midget clown wearing a hulu skirt jumping out of your closet declaring "I like pancakes!"
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
Who even uses GIF anymore?
I see them a lot in healthcare presentations and webpages dealing with such presentations, especially for radiology cine loops. They're made from a series of images anyway and they are pretty much bulletproof, working as intended on any computer in any location and presentation set up. Actual videos have not proved so lucky as if the computer at the distant place you are trying to present doesn't have the proper codec, you're SOL because even if they call in the IT guy, install VNC or whatever really quick, your presentation is shot. GIF may not be the newest or even best, but being older tech makes it pretty much reliable.
APNG and MNG are both to animated GIFs what PNG is to standard GIF, yet better...
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-image_Network_Graphics
Still, Interent Explorer doesn't support them...
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_7/apng-images-not-animating/92ba64aa-9d7a-e011-9b4b-68b599b31bf5
Why?!
The annual list of new words from the OED is just a lame promotional bit filled almost entirely with dumb words. Just ignore them and maybe they'll go away.
Shows you how irrelevant dictionaries have become.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
I thought that was MPG
, and:
and:
I wonder if these smart people are aware that GIFs don't actually carry sound. It's still picture or chunky animation, only. :-)
No sound.
Bit difficult to "GIF the highlights of the debate" of people sitting around a table watching their mouths move, unless they're using sign language
To be, or not to be: isn't that quite logical, Slashdot Beta?
I thought the obscure name for JPEG files was JFIF, not JIFF.
What about Ginger?
True, the standard pronunciation of that is "djindjer". But I've read reports that "ginger" used as a racial slur against redheads is sometimes pronounced with the hard [g] and rhymes with "singer" or "swinger". (Compare the anagram.)
APU: hey mike, is GIFed a word?
...later that day...
MIKE: You mean like "I GIVED my kids turkey last nite? Of course it is. I use that word all the time - give, giving, gived
APU: "I GIFed my kids turkey" yea I guess that makes sense. GIF, GIFing, GIFed
APU: hey dave, is it pronounced "jif" or "ghiff"?
DAVE: as "in a jiff"?
APU: yea, like in "a gif"
DAVE: yea, pronounce it like a "j"
MIKE(from across the room): IT'S GHIFF YOU IDIOT!
DAVE: hey, you know our policy - if you are not sure put both
APU: I can't believe that's not in the dictionary already! this should be word of the year! you guys think I should ask the boss?
MIKE & DAVE: nah, its obvious!
I, for one, have never heard "GIF" used as a verb. Maybe I'm just too old. Like the way making simulated 8-bit blocky video games is currently all the rage, maybe "GIFing" is a hip, retro kind of thing now. For me it's not retro, it's just old. Hell, I remember downloading GIF porn back when my modem had a "high speed" light to let me know I was downloading at a blazing 1200 bps! Now, get off my lawn!
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
I'm late to this discussion, has the correct of pronunciation of GIF been agreed on yet? The soft g is clearly correct. I will never use the hard 'g' version, and, never use either version as a verb. That's just dumb.
Well, it depends on which vowel you add...
Is 1563649 a prime number?
was the word of the year.
Haven't you heard? They're in binders now.
Oxford has these stupid press releases with "new words" and "words of the year". It's just to encourage publicity for their flaccid sales. Seriously, who buys a dictionary nowadays?
What version of Windows Internet Explorer was the first to handle transparent PNGs correctly?
IE7
Trying to combine alpha PNG with CSS opacity does not work out of the box in IE 7 or 8. Instead of standard CSS opacity, you have to use the proprietary DXImageTransform.
Kilobyte, Baud, transistor, Rhodesia, and like someone else said "Y2K"
Gawd, GIF?!?!? That's pretty lame.
Wearing pants should always be optional.