• ALoafOfBread
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    51 year ago

    That’s the gist, generally. Then, gyrating, giblets jiggling , he mixed a gigantic gin and ginseng.

    • ren (a they/them)
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      01 year ago

      ^ this person gets it.

      People are so weird about this. Yes, G’s often sound like J’s English is weird. The inventor gets to have the say, he called it “jif”, great, it’s “jif”. To say it hard g “gif” and act like all G’s sound the same is just announcing one’s own ignorance. Weird take. Welcome to English!

      English is filled with weird duplicative shit. Ex: Why do we even have C’s anyway if we could use an S or a K? “Accident” one C is “kuh” and one C is “Suh”. WTF English?

      • @Makeshift@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 year ago

        The inventor can call it whatever he wants, but it’s not going to change the pronunciation that has stuck with the general public. Language isn’t some decided upon thing that one person gets to control, it is a tool that naturally evolves and changes over time as it spreads from person to person

          • @Makeshift@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            21 year ago

            There is no agreed way to pronounce it.

            so you agree then that one person doesn’t get to decide what the pronunciation is, and there is no “official” way to say it (although, the majority of people use the hard g - source)

            • ren (a they/them)
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              01 year ago

              lol, no, I’m saying pop culture hasn’t decided yet, silly.

              I just find the weirdos who forget soft G’s exist ridiculous.