GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 315
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."
Re:silly (Score:5, Funny)
Silly you, we had to wait 'till all patents on it expired.
Re:Just in time (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wasn't this GIFF (Score:4, Funny)
No one uses that. Do you use "thou" and "thy" and shit?
Yes to the third one.
Re:silly (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, GIF was so '89... or maybe it was '89a...
Re:But how does it sound? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But how does it sound? (Score:4, Funny)
I think everyone sees your general gist. Wait...
Re:But how does it sound? (Score:2, Funny)
Giga is pronounced with a hard G? Great Scott...
Re:But how does it sound? (Score:5, Funny)
YES! Now I can say "jif" and NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! The world shall soon be mine!
limerick (Score:5, Funny)
They named their new standard GIF
Now the formats obsolete
But tweeting the word is l33t
And real dweebs continue to use TIFF
GIZ (Score:5, Funny)
I say GIZ would be a nice format for zlibbed gif. it would also ease the use as a verb.
How timely (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How timely (Score:4, Funny)
Complete steaming pile of shit realplayer is longer than one word.
While it is pronounced "steaming pile of shit", it is still spelled realplayer and therefore one word.
Re:And also... (Score:5, Funny)
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".
Re:silly (Score:4, Funny)
They still haven't added "gullible."