[identity profile] barnacling.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
I object to my inability to also ticky "You're weird".

[identity profile] speshope.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
sorry. :(

[identity profile] fox1013.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
IAWTMFC

[identity profile] stealstheashes.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
So does the giraffe way sound kind of like the peanut butter???

(my compsci friend says that is the proper way but she too says it like gift minus the t)
Edited 2009-08-22 02:45 (UTC)

[identity profile] speshope.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
YES. I WAS TRYING TO BE INTERNATIONALLY CONSIDERATE.

(also, my roommate approves of your CompSci friends' answer, which is basically that my roommate is right but everyone else is okay too.)
Edited 2009-08-22 03:59 (UTC)

[identity profile] mecurtin.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
My instinct is to pronounce the g-as-in-giraffe, but I make an effort to pronounce g-as-in-gift so as to reduce first-phoneme confusion with jpg (pronounced "jay-peg").

[identity profile] speshope.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
My roommate says g-as-in-giraffe so as to not get it confused with 'gift', but I think she's odd.

[identity profile] strobelighted.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Soft g is the only way.

[identity profile] myaurasmiles.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Every time someone uses a hard G for it in my presence, I cringe at their wrongness.

[identity profile] happy-coconut.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
ERICA SAYS IT WEIRD.

[identity profile] speshope.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
ERICA SAYS EVERYTHING WEIRD.

[identity profile] happy-coconut.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
ALSO, IF A GRAPHIC DESIGNER SAYS IT MY WAY, IT MEANS I'M RIGHT.

JUST SAYING.

[identity profile] speshope.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
GIRAFFE WAY JUST SOUNDS WEIRD. I DON'T UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WHO DEFAULT G'S TO MAKING A J NOISE UNLESS THEY'RE FOREIGN.

[identity profile] happy-coconut.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
I CONCUR.

[identity profile] strigine.livejournal.com 2009-08-22 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know that I've even heard it said with the soft "g" in the last several years. O_o

[identity profile] jubella.livejournal.com 2009-08-23 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU'RE WRONG. IT'S LIKE GIRAFFE AND IDC WHAT YOU SAY. >:(

[identity profile] speshope.livejournal.com 2009-08-23 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE. :(