How to Pronounce GIMP?
ttubugi
When i was surfing the net, I saw one simple question but real confusing
one.
How to pronounce GIMP? pronounce 'g' as 'gun? or say as 'Jim'?
Thank you....
John
ttubugi <ttu...@airmail.net> wrote in message
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GIMP =
G as in Graphics
I as in Image
M as in Manipulation
P as in Program
similarly:
GIF =
G as in Graphics
I as in Interchange
F as in Format
I included GIF because it really gets on my nerves, when I hear someone
pronounce GIF as JIF (usually an American) not to mention a few other
words/abbreviations ....
John
Donald Arseneau
>
>GIMP =
> G as in Graphics
> I as in Image
> M as in Manipulation
> P as in Program
>
>similarly:
>
>GIF =
> G as in Graphics
> I as in Interchange
> F as in Format
>
>I included GIF because it really gets on my nerves, when I hear someone
>pronounce GIF as JIF (usually an American) not to mention a few other
>words/abbreviations ....
Yeah! Like those morons who pronounce laser like "Lay zur"
LASER =
L as in Light
A as in Amplification (by)
S as in Stimulated
E as in Emission (of)
R as in Radiation.
= La Seer
Pffffftttttt!!!!!
Donald Arseneau as...@triumf.ca
forkazoo
> G as in Graphics
> I as in Image
> M as in Manipulation
> P as in Program
This usually holds, but complex instruction set computing tends become "sihsk"
a lot around here... I do agree that it is G as in gun, though.
As for the Jiffers... I will never understand them. At least I don't know
anybody that calls them "hifs"...
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Fredrik Glöckner
> but now the next question... how to prounounce GNU? is the G silent
> or not? I vote for it being silent...
Richard Stallman specifically asks people to prounounce "Gnu" with the
"G". It should _not_ be prounounced as "new", he says, as it isn't
particulary new anymore.
Fredrik
Tom B.
<7vfu0j$196a$1...@probity.mcc.ac.uk>
> GIF =
> G as in Graphics
> I as in Interchange
> F as in Format
>
> I included GIF because it really gets on my nerves, when I hear someone
> pronounce GIF as JIF (usually an American) not to mention a few other
> words/abbreviations ....
Well to drift off topic (just this once I promise). I personallyy
pronounce it Gif (g like gun) and I'm American. But, According to
Laura LeMay, in *Web Publishing with HTML 3.2* , page 208:
-- quote --
GIF is pronounced jiff, like the peanut butter, not GIF with a hard G
as in gift. Really. It says so in the early documentation of GIF
tools.
-- end quote --
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forkazoo
>
>GIF is pronounced jiff, like the peanut butter, not GIF with a hard G
>as in gift. Really. It says so in the early documentation of GIF
>tools.
>
> -- end quote --
>
Yes -- but now the language has evolved... obsolete-ifying those early docs.
Burn 'em.
Oh, and it is guh-new, not new. (GNU pronunciation) That is what I have
always heard from people I trust.
Adam D. Moss
> I included GIF because it really gets on my nerves, when I hear someone
> pronounce GIF as JIF (usually an American) not to mention a few other
> words/abbreviations ....
Well, if you want to get really pedantic, 'GIF' *is*
officially pronounced as 'JIF', despite that making
not much sense (it's cute, though, and gee -- that
counts for a lot).
I still have to give anyone pronouncing it 'JIF' a
really hard stare until they whimper and hide behind
furniture, however.
--Adam
Weyfour WWWWolf (Urpo Lankinen)
>I included GIF because it really gets on my nerves, when I hear someone
>pronounce GIF as JIF
I pronounce GIMP often as 'kimp' when speaking Finnish
(well, in those cases, it might come out of my mouth as 'kimppi' or
something equally blasphemous, but, err, just blame the language).
Not that I'd think KDE program naming frenzy would be a Good Thing -
it isn't. =)
When speaking more formally, I pronounce it with a hard 'g' (as in
'gnu' - that's where it comes from, right?)
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Tim Coleman
Weyfour WWWWolf (Urpo Lankinen) <www...@iki.fi> wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 14:58:44 +0100, John <jo...@voyager.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>I included GIF because it really gets on my nerves, when I hear someone
>>pronounce GIF as JIF
>
>I pronounce GIMP often as 'kimp' when speaking Finnish
>(well, in those cases, it might come out of my mouth as 'kimppi' or
>something equally blasphemous, but, err, just blame the language).
>
>Not that I'd think KDE program naming frenzy would be a Good Thing -
>it isn't. =)
>
>When speaking more formally, I pronounce it with a hard 'g' (as in
>'gnu' - that's where it comes from, right?)
Yes, but that doesn't explain the canonical pronunciation of GIF,
which is as JIF, where the 'J' comes from a word with the root
jraphic, thoujh for the life of me I can't think of whether it's
jraphics, jraphical, or jraphic.
Oh well, I juess someone will probably jet back to me on that one.
Tim
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>
> When i was surfing the net, I saw one simple question but real confusing
> one.
> How to pronounce GIMP? pronounce 'g' as 'gun? or say as 'Jim'?
>
Hello there!
I am French. I first heard of GIMP with the first acronym letter pronounced like the verb "to give" and read that it came from GNU which is also pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gun". However, I read later that it first came from "General Image Manipulation Project", in which case it would be more logical to pronounce it with a soft "g" as in "general" (or "giraffe", "gin", "ginger"...). It seems that there is no general rule as to the way one might pronounce the "g" followed by an "i".
This is why I would greatly appreciate if one could tell everybody once and for all (should be in the official site) how we must say it. A lot of people ask me the question and I feel mentally disminished not being able to answer them.
Have a nice day, all of you. And many thanks to those who participated to elaborate the project.
John K. Herreshoff
have a limp, as in 'gimpy.'
Hard G, I'd say ;-)
I don't think anyone cares how it's said, unless a person is trolling or
looking to start a flame war ;-)
John.
John.
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Using the Cubic at home
Kai Dehrmann
www.gimp.org
it clearly sais : GNU Image Manipulation Program
Kind regards
Kai
tPenguinLTG
stood for "General Image Manipulation Program".
I pronounce GIMP with a hard 'g'. At least this isn't as bad as the
pronunciation of GIF, which is apparently properly with a soft 'g', according to
its creator (http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/).
c99m...@gmail.com
> Hi all!!
>
> When i was surfing the net, I saw one simple question but real confusing
> one.
> How to pronounce GIMP? pronounce 'g' as 'gun? or say as 'Jim'?
>
> Thank you....
Piet van Oostrum
Google aquired it and made it into Google Groups.
And comp.graphics.apps.gimp is one of these Usenet Newsgroups, and the corresponding Google group is a gateway to the usenet group.
But it wouldn't surprise me if many Google Groups users would not even know what Usenet is.
And Wikipedia also gives that pronunciation of Gimp.
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>
> Wow I didn't know there were Google groups in 1999! I like to say GIMP like the G in good, not sure whats official.
More here: https://archive.is/20120710073230/http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/07/saving_usenet/index.html
